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Couldn't agree more.

Is it your position that the current Forest Service travel plan regarding snowmobiling is what should be left in place?

I think it is very important to reemphasize that we support local collaboration.

Senator Wyden and I are working on some legislation that is going to specifically address that.

Senator Tester and Senator Baucus deserve tremendous credit for their leadership on public lands management in Montana.

Before Senator Baucus leaves the room, I just want to also thank him for the good working relationship which he and I have had.

I would hope that you would revisit the issue of who it is that would be better to analyze these unique pieces of ground.

I know this is going to come as a great shock to a lot of people in Washington, D.C., but you know the people in the States really do a pretty good job of resolving their own problems if you let them do it.

Senator Tester, the photograph that you brought to us, both Senator Crapo and I have toured the area and viewed it from the air like this around Stanley, Idaho.

Senator Risch and I have already spoken personally with Senator Tester about those, and as he has indicated, we are working together to find, again, a collaborative solution to those kinds of issues that we can move forward on.

Yes, sir. Yes, sir, it is. It is a win-win for all sides.

I am always delighted when States are able to do this internally and the impetus for the management plan comes from the State itself, rather than coming from the banks of the Potomac.

We have never been able to do that before. It is going to make it possible for us to get saw logs to mills in eastern Oregon--we have got communities there with more than 20 percent unemployment--and, at the same time, also protect some of…

We've been saying it should be done right rather than fast on this and many other subjects recently.

It seems to me it's time for a next generation of licensing.

I encourage you to continue to look for opportunities to streamline the process.

Like Senator Landrieu, I believe that this is the wave of the future.

Finally, if I could get both of you to comment on this, how would you characterize the various countries--their governments' commitment to suppressing radical fundamentalists operating within their territories?