Cliff Bentz: “I simply need the agencies who are in charge of this law to acknowledge that it costs, when implemented, billions of…”

Does the government have to support this effort? And the answer is yes.

The horrific wildfires in the West have cost families their property, homes, and in some cases, their jobs.

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.

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.