Thanks To Trump, We're Not Prepared For Wildfire Season

Here come the extreme heat waves, as the US is bracing for another hot, dry and hectic wildfire season. Meanwhile, federal fire crews are growing concerned that a series of changes brought on by the Trump administration have left them underprepared. (Of course.) Via the Guardian:

Severe cuts to budgets and staff have hamstrung the agencies that manage roughly 640m acres of the nation’s public lands, leaving significant gaps in a workforce that supports wildfire mitigation and suppression.