Cliff Bentz: “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…”

“The horrific wildfires in the West have cost families their property, homes, and in some cases, their jobs,” Rep. Bentz said.

The way this works, you harvest this data from millions of people.

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

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.