Experts Say Land Management, Firefighter Support Essential to Control Wildfires

The U.S. Capitol building is under a haze of smoke caused by the ongoing wildfires in Canada in Washington on the morning of June 8, 2023. Madalina Vasiliu/The Epoch Times

With smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketing the U.S. Capitol and an active wildfire season predicted for 2023, Sen. James Risch (R-Idaho) said the United States may have become a victim of its own ingenuity.

“We’re getting a lot better at [fighting fires]. We thought that if you suppress fires, that’s the end of it, but that’s not the end of it,” Risch said. “We’ve caused the problem that we’ve got.”