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Gavin Newsom: “We have just a very small percentage, less than 5% of all of…”

Featuring: Gavin Newsom, Democratic | Governor of California

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Governor Newsom highlights key investments in firefighting technology

Published | Video Starts at 32:31

And we're interested in at least seeing if it works. But again, we're looking at scale here. 58% of the lands, I'll remind you in California are federal. So it's all about partnership. We have just a very small percentage, less than 5% of all of the responsibility for forest management. But we do the job of the federal government in partnership, through a memorandum of understanding and shared stewardship, to do more to meet the needs that the federal government is unable to meet. (32:31–32:40)

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Asserts that California has less than 5% responsibility for forest management.

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