In 2020, we lost 1.1 million acres and 4,000 homes in Oregon, and we would like to not have that happen again.

Our national forests are faced with an incredible challenge.

the key is the funding, and the fact of the matter is, it is more expensive to fight fires in the O&C lands in the wetter forests.

I really want your commitment to make sure that not only that you will work on it, but we will put our money where we need to, funding it upfront.

Because of the unique pattern of ownership, the state of Oregon for years has cooperated with the BLM on a unique fire protection agreement called the Western Oregon Operating Plan.

We are nickel and diming and arguing over continuing this contracting with the Oregon Department of Forestry and the BLM because we have a limited amount of money that we put up front for forest fire prevention.

thank you for all the workers in the airports on airlines, air traffic controllers that work in really high-stress jobs.

I firmly believe that we need to move to green energy, move away from fossil fuel, and move to green energy resources as quickly as possible.

We need to ensure that we have protections for workers, we need to have high environmental standards, right, for anything that we do, but there is a way to do it.