Jim Baird: “I want to add one other environmental consideration on this, the issue…”

On the recordMay 17, 2006

I want to add one other environmental consideration on this, the issue of greenhouse gases. When you talk about billions of boardfeet of timber down post-Katrina, and you think about what happens if there is a secondary burn and how much carbon is put into the air, that is not good if you want to contain greenhouse gases. Those who are concerned about global warming, as am I, and as are many of my friends who have spoken today, seriously ought to consider, you can entrap the carbon in those trees by building a home with the wood, or you can leave the carbon in those trees to burn a second time and to fill the atmosphere with smoke. I would submit that it is better from an environmental perspective to make sure that those forests do not reburn if you can do so responsibly, and we have testimony from wildland forest fighters that by removing these trees postfire you can actually reduce the risk of subsequent fires if you reharvest.

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Jim Baird

Republican · Missouri

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Jim Baird: “I want to add one other environmental consideration on this, the issue of greenhouse gases. When you talk about billions…”