I think that--the first thing that struck me, because of my forestry background, was that, over the 40 or 30 years, whatever it is, that the...
I broke it into 280 different roadless pieces in Idaho, and we treated each one like a piece of property should be treated: uniquely.
Is America less civil than it was a hundred years ago?
When I heard that, when the President said we are going to stop paying to clean up abandoned mines that have been cleaned up, I thought, 'hm...
My favorite reference is to Walt Whitman, who once defined America as an athletic democracy.
I feel very uncomfortable with the amount of money we are spending and how we are spending it.
I think there is a real issue there.
I look forward to hearing your testimony this morning and working with you on the fiscal year 2011 budget.
As this week is National Groundwater Awareness Week, I am pleased to see the increased emphasis in the budget on groundwater.
Let us not let that deteriorate because of the budgets or the efficiencies you have to create within the Department.
I think we need a better effort to at least educate me as to how it is being coordinated and spent, that it is being done in the most useful...
Do we need a climate change agency that could coordinate all of this government-wide?
What bothers me is what I see as a rush to throw money at the problem without a clear understanding of what we do not know.
The only thing certain in life anymore is that no matter what decision the Forest Service makes, they are going to be sued.
When you say we put out 98 percent of the fires that start on Forest Service lands, is that being too successful?
I think that if we could address these recommended wilderness areas in a more timely fashion, I think there would be less concern about wild...
I have seen the great work that it does.
I think they are nuts, but----
