SHERMAN, Texas (KXII) – In 2003, after a year of devastating forest fires, then-President George Bush signed the Healthy Forest Restoration Act (HFRA) into law.
Twenty-one years later, it’s making its way to North Texas.
“We want, ideally, our areas and communities to be reliable enough that a fire can come through and not disrupt our humanity and our structures,” Adam Turner, the North Texas Regional Wildland Urban Interface Coordinator with the Texas A&M Forest Service, said…