On the recordNovember 5, 2003
Many do not know that my district, which includes the San Bernardino National Forest, was as dramatically impacted by this fire as any in the country or any in California. The San Bernardino National Forest has been in desperate condition for some time, in no small part because of serious management problems we have experienced in recent years; also in no small part because of a series of years of serious drought that has allowed the ever-present bark beetle to kind of have its way with our forests. And presently there are literally millions of trees standing tall, but which are dead. It looks like fall time here in the East, but in our forests it is not fall at all. Instead the trees are yellow because they have died.
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