Jon Kyl: “Just increasing the sap content of the trees makes them more impervious to beetles, and thus disease, thereby creating…”

“Just increasing the sap content of the trees makes them more impervious to beetles, and thus disease, thereby creating more nutrients in the grasses because the forest has opened up. Wildlife needs less grass because the protein content has quadrupled. There are so many benefits to this kind of management that it is clear we need to expand it to broader sectors of our forest environment. The point is there are innovative things being done to protect our fragile environment, with land stewards and environment groups and others all working together. These two examples I have discussed today show that through this kind of cooperation and innovation, we can truly protect the environment in a very bipartisan and cooperative way. I commend these two experiments to my colleagues.”