Senator Wyden, your bill is an attempt to restore some semblance of rational management to the O&C lands.
It's been a real pleasure and a privilege to work with you on this issue.
I applaud Senator Wyden for his willingness to step into the circular firing squad which O&C lands have become.
Make no mistake about it: Wildfire threatens our water supplies and our very way of life in Colorado.
I'm very pleased, for example, that there's a Farm Bill finally on the way to the President.
We must oppose S.1784.
Senator Wyden's bill is an attempt to restore some semblance of rational management to the O&C lands.
these lands are not and cannot be managed for their stated purposes.
It simply must change.
This idea that would neglect, as you and I have talked about, Senator Murkowski, the preventive efforts in the forest, and then you have the...
I still think there's benefits to it. It's a pretty simple approach, but I acknowledge the political reality.
Finally, as Senator Murkowski and I have indicated in past meetings, she and I are going to be working very closely together to find biparti...
Our legislation ends the stop-everything approach that has paralyzed forest management.
My concern is, as it has always been with those kinds of approaches, that we would reignite the timber wars in our part of the United States...
I believe getting natural resources policy right represents what is best about our country: wise use of our treasured lands, air, and water.
A huge priority for me and the Governor is a more coherent policy for protecting our rivers, streams, and aquatic features.
In this room, back in 2007, Larry Craig and I wrote the bipartisan Secure Rural Schools Bill, and that got extended for 1 additional year.
Assuring future decades of reliable harvests that averaged 300 and 350 million board-feet per year will give employers confidence.
