Cliff Bentz: “Today marks the second hearing on the important topic of drought in the seven-state Colorado River Basin.”

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.

And then you stack the California subsidy on top of that and perhaps the Oregon subsidy on top of that.

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.

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