Right now, Colorado is reeling from fires across, and I know my colleagues on this dais are incredibly sensitive to the challenges that we're all facing in the western United States. The Gold Mountain and Elk fires are burning on lands within and adjacent to the GORP Act. The coalition that developed this legislation anticipated the realities of hotter, drier conditions that are driving fires like those, and included measures that to try to help address them, to look ahead, to prepare for the future. (02:25–02:32)
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