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Tom Tiffany: “Decades of mismanagement of our federal lands have left our…”

Featuring: Tom Tiffany, Republican | U.S. House Wisconsin, District 7

Rep. Tom Tiffany Speaks in Favor of His Legislation, the ACRES Act, on the House Floor

Published January 21, 2025 | Video Starts at 00:07

This bill will bring transparency, Mr. Speaker, to the misleading and inaccurate way hazardous fuel treatments are reported. Decades of mismanagement of our federal lands have left our forest overstocked with trees and created tinderbox conditions. And we have long known the reported pace and scale of forest management has been insufficient to truly address our catastrophic forest health crisis. (00:07–00:15)

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Asserts that federal land mismanagement has led to overstocked forests and increased fire risk.

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“The reported pace and scale of forest management has been insufficient to truly address our catastrophic forest health crisis.”
Rep. Tom Tiffany Speaks in Favor of His Legislation, the ACRES Act, on the House Floor | Uploaded January 21, 2025 | 00:15-00:24
“Agencies have been overstating their treatments by over 20%.”
Rep. Tom Tiffany Speaks in Favor of His Legislation, the ACRES Act, on the House Floor | Uploaded January 21, 2025 | 00:43-00:48
“Accurate reporting is necessary to broadly track the progress made on our larger wildfire mitigation targets as well as individual projects.”
Rep. Tom Tiffany Speaks in Favor of His Legislation, the ACRES Act, on the House Floor | Uploaded January 21, 2025 | 00:47-00:58
“The ACRES act is a simple solution to hold our federal agencies accountable to see the actual work they are doing to reduce the enormous…”
Rep. Tom Tiffany Speaks in Favor of His Legislation, the ACRES Act, on the House Floor | Uploaded January 21, 2025 | 00:57-01:07
“American taxpayers deserve to know they are getting what they pay for.”
Rep. Tom Tiffany Speaks in Favor of His Legislation, the ACRES Act, on the House Floor | Uploaded January 21, 2025 | 01:06-01:11
“This is a small step in what needs to be a number of steps to get back to active forest management.”
Rep. Tom Tiffany Speaks in Favor of His Legislation, the ACRES Act, on the House Floor | Uploaded January 21, 2025 | 01:13-01:28