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SALT LAKE CITY, Utah (KGO) — Climate change and the West Coast’s deadly wildfires were a topic of discussion at Wednesday night’s Vice Presidential Debate between Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris, the incumbent saying both he and Donald Trump believe forest management needs to be “front and center.” “With regard to wildfires, President Trump and I believe that forest management has to be front and center, and even Gov. Gavin Newsom from your state has agreed, we have to work on forest management,” Pence said. Nearly 60 percent of California’s forests are on federal land and more than 4 million acres of land has burned in the state this year alone, with two months left of fire season. RELATED: Record-breaking California wildfires surpass 4 million acres burned When asked during the debate whether man-made climate change has worsened wildfires and hurricanes in the U.S., Pence brought up the Trump Administration’s record on the environment. “Our air and land are cleaner than any time ever recorded and our water is among the cleanest in the world,” the vice president said. In her rebuttal, the California senator reiterated candidate Joe Biden believes in science, something the president has publicly questioned. […]