Association of O&C Counties Applauds U.S. House Passage of Resilient Federal Forests Act
The Association of O&C Counties (AOCC) today applauded bipartisan passage of the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2017 (H.R. 2639) in the U.S. House of Representatives. The legislation gives the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) new policy and legal tools to increase the pace and scale of active forest management on federal lands. “Passage…