The Fix Our Forests Act advanced through the Senate Agriculture Committee in October, but it has yet to receive a final vote. I think it’s not so much making it a priority among other priorities as it is just clearing all the hurdles.” But Curtis said he wasn’t concerned about the wildfire prevention bill falling to the wayside. But the reality of it is, they have a lot of similarities in what causes the fires,” Curtis said. “The more we can articulate the cost of fires versus the cost of prevention, I think the more we’ll see we are spending way more on fighting fires than we would spend on preventing fires,” Curtis said.