What does HFI stand for?

He has worked on several controversial Bush administration policies, including the Healthy Forests Initiative which loosened environmental rules on timber harvesting on federal lands to prevent forest fires.

Coupled with the Bush Administration's Healthy Forests initiative, this has not only reduced heating cost burdens on local governments, but also it has improved ecological conditions in many fireprone forests.

The BLM lands are just the kinds of forest that President Bush's Healthy Forests Initiative aims to protect.

They include Clear Skies, a proposed program to reduce air pollution from power plants; the Healthy Forests Initiative, an effort to reduce wildfire damage by improving forest management; and Climate Leaders, a voluntary industry program to reduce so-called greenhouse gas intensity--the ratio of emissions to changes in gross domestic product--by 18% over the next decade.

The Bush administration's wildfire plan, known as the Healthy Forests Initiative, includes a proposal to waive NEPA environmental reviews and appeals for a broad category of commercial logging.

America has taken steps to help increase the amount of carbon storage in our forests and to safeguard our forests for future generations: * Since 2001, the Administration has provided more than $3 billion to restore our forests and protect them against catastrophic fires as part of the Healthy Forests Initiative.

Veneman also oversaw the implementation of the 2002 Farm Bill and the Bush administration's controversial Healthy Forests initiative to prevent wildfires.

For example, Wyden worked with a small bipartisan task force to produce a much-improved compromise version of the Healthy Forests Initiative, the administration's program to thin forests throughout the West.