Due to the major scope and consequence of these early season fires, wildland fire suppression costs for the U.S Forest Service are expected to greatly surpass the 10-year suppression average and the Fiscal Year 2008 non-emergency appropriation of $845.62 million. With the bulk of the fire season still to come, the U.S. Forest Service has already expended $704 million, more than half of the $1.2 billion in available funds and, if agencies have to continue spending suppression funds at this rate, they may experience budget deficits to run in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Thanks to your support, $450 million was included in the Senate-passed Supplemental to meet these needs, but not in the bill the President signed into law last week. ...
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