Let me tell you why people live in Idaho. They live in Idaho because they love their public lands.

Now, the saying is 'Do not get sick after September.' We are moving along in the right direction.

What we are trying to say is listen, it has worked for wolves. It has done its job.

Thank you. Let me talk for just a minute about Sage-grouse and focal areas because as I talked to governors...

As far as the proposed increase that both you and the Forest Service have, the $2.50 administration fee for AUM, and the potential fee to go up the maximum of 25 percent, that has been proposed before, and the committee has rejected it.

I would encourage you and your office to work with the State of Idaho and with our office in developing some plans that might work.

I understand that. I mean, wild horses and burros, that has been a problem forever.

I have got county commissioners and so forth and some ranchers that have said that they are going to lose 40 or 50 percent of their grazing lands, with this sage-grouse proposal.

I would encourage the Administration to give us something along those lines that we could look at with Resources Committee.

We ought to look at that whole program.

I just want to say thank you in your role as chairman of the Energy and Water Appropriations Subcommittee for the additional drought funding for the Bureau of Reclamation.

We just sold 30,000 acres in Idaho to a couple of Texans. That was a lot of fun.

It does not solve the long-term problem that we need to fix, and if you do transfers this year, that will be a problem in trying to convince other people there is a fix-borrowing issue.

If we turn them over to the State, we would be P.O.'d at the State.

Do not do any transfers this year for wildfire fighting because what I always hear from people as I go up and talk to them they [the Forest Service] has to transfer funds, but they seem to handle it okay.

There used to be a saying around here 5, or 6, 7 or 8 years ago in Indian Country, 'Do not get sick after June because all the money ran out.'

I would hope that the Department would support what this committee has been trying to do, and that is implement the Fish and Wildlife's decision on wolves in the Great Lakes and Wyoming.

I do not want you to work on. Your first question is, the Forest Service said they got their sagebrush focal area boundaries over their real estate from Fish and Wildlife Service.