… never should have been required to be spent had the state and local officials done their job. I started out with Tom McClintock's op ed there where he talks about California prior to the 1800s, on average, burning about 4.5 million acres had reduced that 250,000 acres by the year 2000. Now it's back up there almost as high as it was prior to the 1800s. So again, I want to focus on the before and the during. Probably won't talk a whole lot about the after. That's probably for a different hearing. (29:54–30:10)
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Asserts that California's annual burned acreage has returned to levels seen before the 1800s.
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