The following article by Miranda Green was posted on the Hill website August 12, 2018:
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is seizing on California’s wildfires to promote a policy long-supported by Republicans — that fires could be stopped if forests were logged.
The former Montana congressman is poised to push the benefits of what’s known as forest management at an event with Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue in California on Monday next to the state’s largest forest fire in history.
Yet it’s not just the blaze that makes the trip important for Zinke and Perdue.