If we don't have our treatments and try to do boundary protections, they will actually devastate into our lands and cause damages that are unforeseen or can have a great impact onto both the ecological things that we want protected but also our economy that depends upon some of the timber.
Westerman emphasizes the importance of forest management to prevent ecological and economic damage.
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