… know, do what has to be done in case of a lightning strike or somebody, you know, leaves a campfire running and, you know, gets out of control. You know, Many of our forests have not been managed at all. Instead of having 70 to 100 trees per acre, you've got 1,000 or 2,000 trees per acre. And it just makes, you know, these fires completely unstoppable. And so we have to be. We have to get back to common sense, you know, approaches to managing our forest. (18:38–18:49)
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Asserts that many forests are unmanaged, leading to 1,000 or 2,000 trees per acre instead of 70 to 100.
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