03/29/2011
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"I think you eluded to that a bit. The LA Times won a Pulitzer Prize, because they had a whole series of articles a number of years back about, kind of, the blank check approach to suppression spending..."
"The U.S. Forest Service had a report a couple years ago. They are talking about over 65 million acres of National Forest system lands that are high or very high risk of catastrophic wildfires."
"I think your point about a durable solution is the key one to take away from here today."
"We are seeing firsthand how extremely detrimental wild land fires are to families and communities."