So is it accurate to say as well that when controlled burning was banned over decades, the land grew thick then with vegetation and it dried out every summer, essentially creating huge kindling stocks for extreme and even more devastating…

injustice and colonization is part of what has led us to this climate crisis today.

My bill would designate approximately 23 million acres of wild lands in the continental Northwest as wilderness.

So up until the 1970's, the colonization and the displacement of indigenous peoples in the United States included banning a practice that we now know explicitly sequestered carbon.

My bill would also help us meet the goals of the Paris Agreement by preserving large swaths of forests.

And what are some of the proposals, and what are some of the ideas that you would recommend the committee entertain in order to right that wrong?

That is why I introduced H.R. 1755, the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act, or NREPA.

I am asking Congress to do four things: pass NREPA, pass a law requiring the Forest Service to incentivize preservation over timber sales, repeal the logging provisions in the infrastructure law, allocate some of that money to help people…

the average American now has to compete with major companies like Invitation Homes, whose parent company is Blackstone

Extreme weather events will be the new normal, our communities will flood, and our economy will be underwater.

they are purchasing them in minority and low-income neighborhoods, specifically.