Both parties agree: Trees are infrastructure. The bipartisan infrastructure deal moving through the Senate includes at least $5.75 billion for restoring, monitoring and researching forests, according to the legislative text and summary. Beyond money, the package also includes policies that could make it easier to prepare for wildfires. …More than once, negotiations teetered over how to define infrastructure. …Forests — and green infrastructure more broadly — were different. …That makes the bipartisan infrastructure deal the latest demonstration of the U.S. political system beginning to respond to the impacts of climate change — even as it struggles to curb its causes. …The bipartisan legislation would amend one of the federal government’s bedrock disaster laws, the Stafford Act, to allow pre-disaster mitigation grants to cover wildfire projects. The bill also would beef up other funding streams to head off wildfires before they spark. …It would authorize $500 million over five years for prescribed burns, $500 million for mechanical tree harvesting and clearing and $500 million for developing fuel breaks and control locations.