Cliff Bentz: “Many people...don't understand that the western part of the United States is an arid and dry region.”

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.

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

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