I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. I thank her for bringing this amendment, which is important. I support the amendment. Unfortunately, our forests out West are overstocked. They compete with each other. They get weak. They invite disease and insect infestation. These insects and diseases kill the trees, and then you have dry kindling for a lightning strike or a wildfire that gets out, and it creates the perfect storm for catastrophic wildfires. Again, I thank Representative Boebert for her efforts to improve the health of our western forests, and I support the amendment.
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