Smith Amendment to Stop Burning in the Mark Twain National Forest Passes the House

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Today the United States House of Representatives passed H.R. 1526, the Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act, to renew the federal government's commitment to manage federal forests for the benefit of rural schools and counties and to improve forest health. Included in this bill was an amendment offered on the floor by Congressman Jason Smith (MO-08) to stop the prescribed burning of harvestable timber in the Mark Twain National Forest.

"One of the issues I constantly deal with in Washington D.C. is rogue, unaccountable federal agencies. Whether it is the Department of the Interior trying to take away our property rights through a White River National Blueway, the National Park Service trying to tell us that we can't baptize people in the river, or now the Forest Service burning whole swaths of the Mark Twain National Forest at great cost to our forest products industry, these bureaucrats just seem to think that they can get away with anything," said Smith.

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