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48 Ariz. St. L.J. 1 (2016)

handle is hein.journals/arzjl48 and id is 1 raw text is: THE WILDFIRE MENACE: Will the West Learn or Burn? Senator Jon Kyl* & Kris Kiefer** FOREWORD When I was asked to make this presentation, the first thing I did was to check with Kris Kiefer on Senator Flake's staff. Senator Flake and Senator McCain have been very active on pushing legislative reforms, and I wanted to know why, with so many announcements of forward progress on forest management, it still seemed that nothing on the scale required was getting done. I will today summarize much of the positive news, but also lay out an agenda of un-finished business, much of which is the object of our delegation's efforts. While some of us have been working on forest management and ecological restoration since the 1980s, much of the interest and energy in forest health began to take shape after one of Arizona's most damaging fires, the Rodeo- Chediski in 2002. With more than 462,000 acres of ponderosa pine forests charred and hundreds of homes lost, our earlier warnings finally took on some urgency.' Governors Hull and Napolitano established committees and councils on forest health.2 Senator McCain and I pushed legislation to advance federal wildfire policy, such as the Wildfire Prevention Act of 2002 and the Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention Act, which eventually led to the creation of the Ecological Restoration Institute at NAU.3 ERI has been * Former Member, United States Senate (R-Ariz.). B.A. University of Arizona, 1964; L.L.B. University of Arizona, 1966, Editor-in-Chief of the Arizona Law Review, 1966. Jon Kyl represented Arizona in the U.S. Senate from 1995 to 2013, serving as the Senate Minority Whip from 2008 to 2013. Prior to that he served four terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, and he currently is Senior of Counsel in the Washington, D.C. office of Covington & Burling LLP. ** B.A. University of Rochester, 2002; J.D. Syracuse University, 2005, Editor-in-Chief of the Syracuse Journal of International Law and Commerce, 2005. Kris Kiefer serves as General Counsel to Senator Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), and he previously served as Legislative Counsel to Senator Kyl. Prior to that he worked in the Phoenix office of Snell & Wilmer LLP. 1. Historically Significant Wildland Fires, NAT'L INTERAGENCY FIRE CTR., https://www.nifc.gov/firelnfo/firelnfo stats-histSigFires.html (last visited Feb. 12, 2016). 2. Arizona Exec. Order No. 2001-16 Creating the Governor's Forest Health/Fire Plan Advisory Committee (Aug. 7, 2001); Arizona Exec. Order No. 2003-16 Creating the Governor's Arizona Forest Health Advisory Council (May 22, 2003). 3. The Wildfire Prevention Act of 2002, S. 2670, 107th Cong. (2002); Southwest Forest Health and Wildfire Prevention Act of 2003, S. 32, 108th Cong. (2003); see also Southwest Forest

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