Oregon Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley joined a bipartisan group of Western senators to urge savings from the Wildfire Disaster Account be reinvested in the Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management to ensure the agencies can continue wildfire prevention.  The Senators sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee Chair Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Ranking Member Tom Udall of New Mexico requesting savings from the account, which for fiscal year 2020 amounts to $650 million, be reinvested back into the agencies, which they say was the intent when the account was created.  The Wildfire Disaster Account was created in 2018 to save the Forest Service and BLM hundreds of millions in wildfire suppression costs, rather than forcing them to raid other accounts that went towards fire prevention efforts.