Bozeman Daily Chronicle: One of Sheehy’s wildfire bills passes through the Senate

Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL and co-founder of the aerial firefighting company Bridger Aerospace, has spent much of his time in the Senate focused on bills to change how wildland fires are fought in the U.S.

This also includes launching a central response agency and higher wildland firefighter wages.

In an interview with the Chronicle from February, Sheehy said his plan is to introduce several bills to attack the issue to chip away at restructuring how wildland fires are fought.

“Try to eat the elephant one bite at a time and let’s find targeted fixes that we can push out there to start making incremental progress,” Sheehy said. “At the end of the day, the accumulation of all these bills will be a better wildfire apparatus than we’d seen if we were to try to do it all at once and build some amazingly giant bill that probably would never pass.”