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William Janklow: “Sir, the forest fire in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, you pick your State, Washington, Oregon, California, South…”

On the recordMay 13, 2003
Sir, the forest fire in Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, you pick your State, Washington, Oregon, California, South Dakota, the forest fires there in the last several years, each of the years, those fires, it will take over 100 years to sequester the carbon back into the soil. Everybody knows that carbon dioxide, everybody knows the release of that carbon contributes to global warming. We hear that all the time with respect to smokestack industries and burning of coal and burning of petrochemicals. The fires in the West release a year's supply of automobiles. But the sequestration to get them back in the soil will take a century.
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William Janklow
Republican · South Dakota

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Discussing the impact of forest fires on carbon sequestration and global warming.

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