Tim Sheehy
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They'd bring the logs in, build timber to build American homes, with American jobs, with American trees. And over the years, as the environmental groups partnered with enviros in government who were active in wanting to shut down the timber industry, who then partnered with massive donors to conserve and protect wild land, they started shutting down massive swaths of our country.
They'd bring the logs in, build timber to build American homes, with American jobs, with American trees. And over the years, as the environmental groups partnered with enviros in government who were active in wanting to shut down the timber industry, who then partnered with massive donors to conserve and protect wild land, they started shutting down massive swaths of our country.
I mean, Biden just did a massive grab for national protected wildlife refuge land. Obama did them all over the place where they're just grabbing millions of acres saying, boom, wilderness, national monument, national monument, can't touch this, can't touch that. And the impacts of that, some are economic. We can't drill in those areas anymore for oil and gas.
I mean, Biden just did a massive grab for national protected wildlife refuge land. Obama did them all over the place where they're just grabbing millions of acres saying, boom, wilderness, national monument, national monument, can't touch this, can't touch that. And the impacts of that, some are economic. We can't drill in those areas anymore for oil and gas.
I mean, Biden just did a massive grab for national protected wildlife refuge land. Obama did them all over the place where they're just grabbing millions of acres saying, boom, wilderness, national monument, national monument, can't touch this, can't touch that. And the impacts of that, some are economic. We can't drill in those areas anymore for oil and gas.
We can't pull lithium out of the ground. One of the largest lithium deposits in the world is on DOI land, BLM land in Nevada, where that could be like, they're saying hundreds of billions of dollars of lithium that can go right into the national treasury, pay off national debt, and we're not touching it because we can't pull things out of the ground.
We can't pull lithium out of the ground. One of the largest lithium deposits in the world is on DOI land, BLM land in Nevada, where that could be like, they're saying hundreds of billions of dollars of lithium that can go right into the national treasury, pay off national debt, and we're not touching it because we can't pull things out of the ground.
We can't pull lithium out of the ground. One of the largest lithium deposits in the world is on DOI land, BLM land in Nevada, where that could be like, they're saying hundreds of billions of dollars of lithium that can go right into the national treasury, pay off national debt, and we're not touching it because we can't pull things out of the ground.
So how this relates to wildfires is you have massively overgrown forests. Forests are supposed to burn every few years. That's part of the ecosystem. And if they're not going to burn, we need to be thinning them with logging like we did for centuries here. Well, that industry was basically shut down in America 30 years ago. It's basically been litigated out of existence.
So how this relates to wildfires is you have massively overgrown forests. Forests are supposed to burn every few years. That's part of the ecosystem. And if they're not going to burn, we need to be thinning them with logging like we did for centuries here. Well, that industry was basically shut down in America 30 years ago. It's basically been litigated out of existence.
So how this relates to wildfires is you have massively overgrown forests. Forests are supposed to burn every few years. That's part of the ecosystem. And if they're not going to burn, we need to be thinning them with logging like we did for centuries here. Well, that industry was basically shut down in America 30 years ago. It's basically been litigated out of existence.
So now you have these wildlife areas where you can't build roads, you can't cut a tree down, and you can't run any kind of utilities because they're wilderness. They have to be left exactly as they are. What happens is you get a buildup of fuel loading. And if you haven't spent time in the forests of the Western U.S., the vast majority of them, you can't walk off.
So now you have these wildlife areas where you can't build roads, you can't cut a tree down, and you can't run any kind of utilities because they're wilderness. They have to be left exactly as they are. What happens is you get a buildup of fuel loading. And if you haven't spent time in the forests of the Western U.S., the vast majority of them, you can't walk off.
So now you have these wildlife areas where you can't build roads, you can't cut a tree down, and you can't run any kind of utilities because they're wilderness. They have to be left exactly as they are. What happens is you get a buildup of fuel loading. And if you haven't spent time in the forests of the Western U.S., the vast majority of them, you can't walk off.
If there is a trail, you can't walk off the trail because there's six, eight, ten feet of deadfall there. It's largely inaccessible. Well, when that fire comes through, a natural fire is supposed to burn through the floor of the forest and rejuvenate, you know, kill the saplings, burn through the underbrush and rejuvenate, bring nitrogen back to the soil.
If there is a trail, you can't walk off the trail because there's six, eight, ten feet of deadfall there. It's largely inaccessible. Well, when that fire comes through, a natural fire is supposed to burn through the floor of the forest and rejuvenate, you know, kill the saplings, burn through the underbrush and rejuvenate, bring nitrogen back to the soil.
If there is a trail, you can't walk off the trail because there's six, eight, ten feet of deadfall there. It's largely inaccessible. Well, when that fire comes through, a natural fire is supposed to burn through the floor of the forest and rejuvenate, you know, kill the saplings, burn through the underbrush and rejuvenate, bring nitrogen back to the soil.
Now, with so much fuel loading there, and that fire comes through, it burns about 10 times hotter than it's supposed to, and it scorches the ecosystem. Destroys it. And that fire is hotter and stronger than we were able to fight. And those type of
Now, with so much fuel loading there, and that fire comes through, it burns about 10 times hotter than it's supposed to, and it scorches the ecosystem. Destroys it. And that fire is hotter and stronger than we were able to fight. And those type of
Now, with so much fuel loading there, and that fire comes through, it burns about 10 times hotter than it's supposed to, and it scorches the ecosystem. Destroys it. And that fire is hotter and stronger than we were able to fight. And those type of