Getting federal fire prevention or fire fighting help for western states will need to be "bipartisan", ensuring that concessions will be made to the timber industry. An industry who covets our mature timber, cut out on their own lands,  and claims that more logging (aka "active forest management") will reduce forest fire.

What, if anything, we'll end up getting will probably look a lot like the  Resilient Federal Forest Act of 2017 being pushed right now by timber industry's politicians and lobbyists.

I've worked in Oregon's woods and lived with our timber controlled politics for nearly 50 years. To stay in office for life, Oregon politicians must play ball with big timber or, at a very minimum, not oppose them. To advance in  Oregon's Forest Service districts, agency managers must push and/or produce more logging by any name.

Sad but true...