The FOFA helps America increase our resilience to catastrophic wildfires, restore forest health and build fire-safety defenses for communities in high-risk areas. It's a good bipartisan start (rare these days!) to protecting forests so trees can continue their important work pulling climate pollution out of the atmosphere. In the U.S., the annual area burned by wildfires has more than doubled over the past 30 years. In California alone, acreage burned by wildfires every year has more than tripled over the past 40 years.