There has to be a better understanding of how we measure these grants and success.
There's no constitutional right to a 5-year delay and just have delay after delay after delay.
When I think, this goes to your point, Mr. Chairman, and that Senator Risch raised which is, you know, every acre of for...
the Fish and Wildlife Service has recently issued critical habitat for the Northern Spotted Owl and has provided guidanc...
Obviously it's of great importance to all of us that we wrestle with the O and C issue.
I think in your initial comments you mentioned that it's your sense that within the Forest Service currently there is pe...
But we still haven't gotten to the point where we're seeing more timber actually being harvested.
Let us, as a State, manage our own forests.
The fact that unfortunately, too often, we have this one size fits all mentality here.
The uncertainty that we see. The litigation that follows.
We're starting to see them in the questions.
OK, so July 1 we should see the record of decision.
We have to make sure that they do not bury our communities.
In the Tongass, on average right now, we are harvesting just 35 million board feet which is really unacceptable in my vi...
I think far too often we see policies that really do restrict or limit that.
Southeast Alaska is now and has historically been a resource dependent economy directly tied to the Federal land that do...
I look forward to a rigorous discussion about the Federal policies and management practices on our Federal lands that ar...
I agree wholeheartedly with you on the importance of increasing the timber harvest on our Federal lands.
