Hey, this is Outside In, I'm Nate Hegey.

So recently I picked a fight on Twitter, or I guess I should say X, with a guy named

Ryan Zinke.

You may remember him as President Trump's former interior secretary.

He was the guy who wrote in Onny Horse to his first day in office in DC.

He wrote out, by the way, on multiple ethics scandals.

He was facing questions about his air travel, taking chartered airlines as well as travel

for his wife through the ministry.

Anyways, these days, Zinke is a congressman for his home state of Montana.

And a few months ago, he posted a video of himself on the steps of the U.S. Capitol building.

That day, the air was so hazy with wildfire smoke, you couldn't even see the Washington

monument.

You know, I don't have any sympathy for politicians in Washington DC that are complaining

today about the forest fires in Canada.

If a forest need to be managed, and whether you're a climate change activist or a denyer,

it doesn't really need the responsibility to manage our forests.

If you don't manage your forests, this is what happens.

So welcome to Montana, Washington DC.

My first thought was, how is American forest policy going to stop these massive fires in

Canada?

Because all that smoke, it was pouring down from the boreal forests of Quebec.

So that's what I tweeted at him.

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