05/16/2017
https://congress.gov...
"Something needs to change."
"Nearly three decades of poor management has left our Federal forests overstocked with trees and vegetation that fuel increasingly intense fire seasons."
"I fully agree with you on the need to solve the fire borrowing issue. I have been an advocate of doing that from day one."
"It makes no sense. I am told there are statistics that--it costs four to five times as much to fight a fire as it does to do the kind of work you and I agree needs to be done on the forest."