Cliff Bentz: “Does the government have to support this effort? And the answer is yes.”

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

I think it’s highly unlikely that you’d see much of any immediate benefit.

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

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.