(Washington, D.C.) -- The Trump Administration has stopped work on wildfire mitigation projects. Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley, the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, says the Bureau of Land Management has ordered small businesses and organizations doing fire mitigation work on public lands to stop. This is the key time of year when the work can be done, because it stops during wildfire season. Merkley, and other Democratic Senators, are telling Interior Secretary Doug Burgum that even a temporary pause in the work allows fire danger to increase.