Norman D. Dicks: “We are looking at the complete denuding of forests and mountainsides because of these invasive species.”

I'm very interested in this, and I want to talk to my good friend about this. I would like to work with you on it.

Would you explain--you say here you have these two brigades, except pursuant to article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty. Could you explain what the impact of this is, the treaty commitments here?

I thank the gentleman for his hard work on this issue and look forward to working with him.

This has been a subject I've been very interested in as former chairman of the Interior Appropriation Subcommittee where we have to fund the efforts for firefighting, which are very massive. I have tried to work with the Defense…