Well, Katie, you're so spot on, because this all began back under Bill Clinton in the 1990s when we said, hey, we're going to stop cutting trees because we're concerned about, in that case, the spotted owl. We killed the forestry industry in America. We now import as much timber as we used to harvest here. And last year, just in one Department of Interior, the Bureau of Land Management, we spent nine times as much fighting fires as we did on getting paid for timber leases. (07:36–07:41)
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