When you thin the forest, it helps reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfires, it improves wildlife habitat, it protects watersheds, and importantly provides work for our loggers and our sawmills. In fact, When I was a kid growing up in Montana, we had 30 active sawmills across our state. Now we're down to less than a half dozen. Okay, and. So now that Congress passed this funding bill, what do you see as like the next hurdle in your guys horizon? Yeah, well, we're gonna have another funding bill coming up on September 30th. (01:35–01:42)
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