But the scale of this challenge is huge. There are hundreds of millions of acres of wild land in the American forests. The Forest Service hopes to reduce the risk on 50 million high priority acres over the next 10 years. But the challenge is that they're only accomplishing a few million acres a year. And so we're not at the pace or scale that we need to do to address this challenge. (05:35–05:43)
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Asserts that the Forest Service aims to mitigate fire risk on 50 million high-priority acres in the next decade.
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