CA SCR75

Declares an ongoing emergency due to wildfire threats in California and calls on the federal government to take immediate preventive measures

Notes that insurance losses from the top 10 state wildfires since 1970 exceeded $8 billion, with additional employment losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars annually

Identifies over 43 million acres of federal land in California that lack adequate management to mitigate catastrophic wildfire risk, with two of the three largest wildfires in the past century originating on federally owned land

States that the United States Forest Service spent over $1.27 billion on fire suppression in 2008, representing 50 percent of the wildland fire budget and reducing funds available for prevention work

Requests Governor Schwarzenegger advocate at the federal level for the United States Forest Service to undertake prevention and maintenance work on the state's federal forest lands