Sentence examples for fire prevention efforts from inspiring English sources

Others counter that thinning and fire prevention efforts now under way will have long term benefits, even if they release some carbon initially.

Mr. Putin had criticized the official, Aleksei Savinov, for shoddy fire prevention efforts, which he said allowed the blazes to burn out of control, overwhelming firefighters and consuming whole villages.

As such, rational decisions were made to devote public funds to fire suppression and fire prevention efforts.

This period was followed by an overall decrease in burning in the 20th century, linked to the expansion of agriculture, increased livestock grazing, and fire prevention efforts.

Federal agencies responsible for fighting wildfires have borrowed so much money from other forest programs that fire-prevention efforts have suffered, according to Congressional auditors.

With the lesson of Los Alamos in mind, Congress and the Clinton administration are working on a plan that would focus an urgent new round of fire-prevention efforts this summer in the danger zones where populations and wild land meet.

The present policy of fire prevention puts efforts into public information and prevention, and preferential management of fuels at risk in the vicinity of roads and wildland urban interfaces where fires occur preferentially.

Most of their time was spent on tree planting, flood control, soil erosion efforts and fire prevention.

But at the heart of the effort is fire prevention, through what the government calls hazardous fuels reduction, to be carried out primarily in the areas where residential communities abut public land.

Feinstein noted that the U.S. Forest Service will borrow $700 million this year to fight fires that are currently burning, siphoning funds away from prevention efforts like removing brush and dead trees.

The action has prompted environmentalists and some Democrats to condemn what they called a White House effort to promote logging in the name of fire prevention.