Mr. Miller, that the national fire plan has hundreds of millions of dollars in there. This big tree argument is nonsense. We are not going out there and saying, gosh, we have got to go to the redwoods or the sequoias and cut down all this beautiful stuff. That is an emotional argument that is used for one purpose and that is to divert from the science.
Richard Pombo: “Mr. Miller, that the national fire plan has hundreds of millions of dollars in there. This big tree argument is…”
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Discussing the national fire plan and addressing arguments against it.
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