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This two and a half hour hearing included testimony from an interior Department Official and deputy chief of the u. S. Forest service. Receive testimony on 15 bills pending before the public lands Forest Service and mining subcommittee. Because of the large number of bills on todays agenda, im not going to go through all of them right now, but the complete agenda will of course be included in the record. I want to know they have a former member of the committee here, senator landrieu with us in the back and weve got members who will be joining us shortly have another Committee Assignments at the moment. We have others who will be joining us by telephone i believe. I also want to begin by recognizing that a staggering loss of life that has occurred and embed it within what has shaped up to be a really horrific wildfire season. More than 36 people have perished in the inferno is raging over it towards the westn United States. Dozens more are missing. In oregon, my colleague, senator wyde
Receive testimony on 15 bills pending before the public lands Forest Service and mining subcommittee. Because of the large number of bills on todays agenda, im not going to go through all of them right now, but the complete agenda will of course be included in the record. I want to know they have a former member of the committee here, senator landrieu with us in the back and weve got members who will be joining us shortly have another Committee Assignments at the moment. We have others who will be joining us by telephone i believe. I also want to begin by recognizing that a staggering loss of life that has occurred and embed it within what has shaped up to be a really horrific wildfire season. More than 36 people have perished in the inferno is raging over it towards the westn United States. Dozens more are missing. In oregon, my colleague, senator wydens, home state of thousands of lost homes and evacuated. Elsewhere we have wind driven fires that continue to spread across our federal
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Largest fires in state history. Merely one. 4 million acres have burned statewide in nearly 2000 structures have been destroyed. At least seven people have a ed as result of the fires and were injured. Fires like this seem to be a new normal in california with significant delays is coming almost every fall. Climate change has made weather more unpredictable and led to hotter and drier conditions and pushed to fire prone regions. Should we plan to live with this devastation and air quality for many years to come . Is there any way g out . Joine is Scott Stevens a professor at uc berkeley. We have seen several instances in which the devastation from s wildfis become personal including the santa cruz firefighters who lost their own homes thisu year. E also facing concerns about a camp you run. What is the latest . Inthis is a little town called meadow valley. We have a camp there we have used for 130 years w for an undergraduate course and there is a fire called the bear fire to the south