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“Katrina is undoubtedly the biggest problem for the country right now. We had to look at national priorities.”
Matt Mathes
“It's basically bringing order to chaos and our teams are good at that.”
“If you stood on the lake and looked around you, one of every three trees you saw was dead. The folks in the Lake Tahoe basin got behind a very serious thinning campaign that was very effective.”
“I can understand why they do it. It's a very economical and efficient way to operate.”
“Everyone was not going to get what they wanted.”
“We set up a broad blueprint for what we want to see happened over the next 10 to 15 years. Part of our mandate is to serve the public but also to protect the forests.”
“Enough bugs emerge from one tree to kill three or four more.”
“If they get into a bad situation, there are only two possible outcomes: the individuals will either die or they will have to pay for a very expensive rescue.”
“We have jurisdiction over federal land.”
“We desperately need to bring the ecosystem back into balance. The smaller trees in that area act as ladders to take fires into the taller Sequoias,”
