Cliff Bentz: “If you have 2,000 trees growing per acre, they're using a…”

“And it's an extraordinarily important bill for many, many reasons, has bipartisan support, but it focuses on how to generate additional money to remove unneeded fuel from forests. This is incredibly important because it appears to me If you have 2,000 trees growing per acre, they're using a lot of water that could otherwise make its way into our system. So I'm hopeful that the agency will support our efforts on the biomass bill because I think it has a lot to do with additional water that. Madam Chair, I yield.” (04:42–04:50)

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