mr. geissler. mr. baird: but chief, you mentioned in your testimony you highlighted that the collaboration among local fire departments with federal research and working with n.s.f., nist or nist, and nasa, needs to further grow to improve the nation's wildfire response. and then you followed that with eight fields of future focus on this matter, such as remote sensing, fire mapping, and others. and so in that context, then i want to extend my question to be, how can we use these tools that you mentioned there to really increase the active forest manage. justice and the implementation of fuel treatments, because i think those have a real impact on being able to prevent many of these wildfires. and so with that, cleave, if -- chief, if you would care to comment, i'd appreciate that. chief litzenberg: thanks for the question, congressman. and, yeah, i'll give you my perspective again as a local responder. i think my perspective is probably shared by many responders and fire chiefs. i said a few minutes a