The International Association of Wildland Fire is supporting three pieces of wildland fire legislation currently pending before the U.S. Senate.

The association is supporting S.1770, the Stable Fire Funding Act of 2007. It calls for establishes separate funds in the Treasury Department to be used to pay 80% of the cost for Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service emergency wildland fire suppression activities that exceed amounts annually appropriated for wildland fire suppression activities.

IAWF also favors S.1635, a bill to reimburse wildland firefighters for the cost of professional liability insurance. It amends the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1997 to provide for the reimbursement of temporary fire line supervisors (employees of the Department of the Interior or the Forest Service whose duties include temporary supervision to manage a wildland or managed fire) for the cost of professional liability insurance.

The group also is backing S.1152, the Wildland Fire Safety and Transparency Act of 2007. It would direct the Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Directors of the Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and the Secretary of Agriculture to jointly submit annual reports to Congress on the wildland firefighter safety practices including training programs and activities for wildland fire suppression, prescribed burning, and wildland fire use.