House Resources Committee Hearing July 11, 2013

I like this quote by Chris Topik in the press release here:

“We must collectively and immediately dedicate ourselves to finding a way to effectively support both essential emergency wildfire preparedness and response AND the proactive fuels reduction and forest restoration that are needed to reduce the demand for emergency expenditures in the future. Our current approach to wildland fire and forest management creates a false choice, pitting the viability of one against the other. In reality, we cannot afford to short-change either.” – Christopher Topik, Ph.D, Director, Resorting America’s Forests, The Nature Conservancy

People I know who watched it, said that there was general agreement and a relative lack of partisan demagoguery.

Here’s the site with the testimony.

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