The American Farm Bureau wants Congress to pass the Emergency Wildfire and Public Safety Act of 2020 to help those effected by severe wildfires that have burned more than three million acre and destroyed 4200 structures in California alone this year. Nebraska Farm Bureau’s Director of National Affairs Jordan Dux says besides getting this aid out, preventative measures need to be taken to keep damaging events like this from happening again.

He says farmers and ranchers properly manage their lands and those who manage forests in another segment of agriculture also put in proper conservation practices to keep fires from growing and spreading.

Dux says Congress needs to get past all political partisanship and get this legislation approved and help out to those hurt by the wildfires.

Dux says some prevention measures are needed in the future because of backlogs in adequate management coupled with drier, hotter conditions that have resulted in unhealthy, overly dense forests.