I'm now going to recognize members for five minutes and I am going to begin questioning here. You heard in my opening statement the comments about the closure of sawmills, especially in the western part of the country. More than a third of the sawmills in the country have shut down over the past 25 years. in large part because of the lack of certainty that they were going to be able to get wood. And we've been hearing that story, for example, from the Black Hills out in South Dakota. (00:15–00:21)
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