A U.S. Senate committee has advanced the Fix Our Forests Act — a sweeping forest-management bill that could reshape logging and wildfire policy in heavily forested areas like Lane County. Local environmentalists say Democrats behind the proposal misunderstand the challenges facing forests in the West. …The U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry is largely made up of lawmakers from the East Coast and Midwest. …The 176-page bill largely outlines strategies to clear landscapes of brush and grass that can fuel fires that burn large and hot for weeks at a time. “These are things that are all bipartisan in nature,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., ranking member of the committee. However, more than 150 environmental organizations — including groups with Eugene activists including Oregon Wild and Cascadia Wildlands — sent the committee a letter opposing the bill.