Policy Note: This year, wildfires have already destroyed more than 400 buildings - most of them homes - and forced the evacuation of thousands of people. In 2000, more than 70,000 wildfires in 14 states charred upward of 6 million acres, and in 2002 wildfires burned across seven states, scorching more than 815 structures and costing more than $1.6 billion. Wildfires, per se, are entirely natural, but the size, intensity and harm caused annually by the past decade's forest fires are almost entirely of human origin. Federal mismanagement of our national forests is to blame for the annual toll that wildfires have wreaked upon the nation.

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