Cliff Bentz: “About 78 million people living within it have to...store water to get through the spring, summer, and a portion of the…”

Absolutely. I don’t have a study yet that shows exactly how great that demand is.

One of the things that’s a huge challenge is access to get firefighters in so they can fight these fires.

What you would do is you’d go back to those existing roads that have been abandoned and you would cut the trees out of them and presto, you have your road back.

Mr. Chairman, this is an excellent bill, and we need it in Oregon. We have 30 million acres of trees. We absolutely need what this bill would provide.