I shouldn't have added the bit about Trump (I'm not an R or a D, btw), I just find it annoying that the idea gets shut down so quickly. Funding is an inherentl

I shouldn't have added the bit about Trump (I'm not an R or a D, btw), I just find it annoying that the idea gets shut down so quickly. Funding is an inherently political subject, and we've never been great as a country about working together and thinking ahead. I acknowledge all the problems mentioned and I realize the cost is huge to address them. But I live in the PNW and have seen the air quality get so bad due to locally close fires that I couldn't see the house across the street from my doorstep due to the smoke. For whatever reasons, movement politically on this subject has been a non-starter. I just hope we decide somewhere along the line that some preventative maintenance might go a long way to helping mitigate this.