Interior Sec. Burgum: ‘By shutting down our forests, we killed our position in timber milling, we killed rural communities’

.@SecretaryBurgum on forest mismanagement in the United States over the years:

“By shutting down our forests, we killed our position in timber milling, we killed rural communities… The fires in California have released more CO2 than all of their efforts to control CO2.” pic.twitter.com/voT9lcZYbS

— Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) September 3, 2025