WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management issued the following press release:
WASHINGTON - With extreme wildfire activity exhausting all available federal firefighting resources and the national wildfire system operating at its highest level of readiness, the Department of the Interior has finalized two categorical exclusions under the National Environmental Policy Act to expedite Bureau of Land Management timber salvage and forest thinning projects. These new administrative authorities are designed to bypass bureaucratic delays and immediately expedite critical timber salvage and forest thinning projects.
"The Trump administration is committed to giving our land managers the tools they need to...