Boone and Crockett Club Commends Forest Service for Initiating Emergency Fuel Reduction Projects to Protect Giant Sequoias

MISSOULA, Mont. – The Boone and Crockett Club thanks the U.S. Forest Service for today’s action to initiate emergency forest treatments to reduce the immediate threat of catastrophic fire in giant sequoia groves. The ag…

ncy announced that it would be using existing authorities under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) to remove surface and ladder fuels on more than 13,000 acres in order to protect 12 giant sequoia groves.