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Steve Daines: “We've got about 130 million board feet of timber tied up in…”

Featuring: Steve Daines, Republican | U.S. Senate, Montana

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Yeah, well, most Montanans believe we need to have more common sense. Forest management across Montana. I think we're sick and tired of breathing the smoke in the summertime. We've got about 130 million board feet of timber tied up in lawsuits at the moment on our national forests. So we either are going to manage the forest or they're going to manage us through wildfires and catastrophic wildfires. And so Montanans want to see better forest management. (00:56–01:04)

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