I would agree with your opening statement and endorse the concept of providing stronger support and protection or limits...
Senator Wyden's framework aspires to generate legislation to safeguard clean water and treasured resources and focus on ...
The idea that we may 'modernize' federal laws suggests sufficiency language, which would deny the public the right to re...
Federal lands should remain under federal control and be managed for the best use with respect to public needs and desir...
This is not something from the 90s. I don't want to belabor.
I want to use for my analogy the Eugene District of the BLM.
Congress should not continue to sit on the sideline while the agency engages in endless gymnastics in the hopes that it ...
Senator Wyden; and Representatives DeFazio, Walden, and Schrader have initiated collaborative efforts to better understa...
In my view too many of our forestry programs are not working for forest-dependent communities, for taxpayers or for the ...
You've got to come to one of my town hall meetings because the problem is now.
Thank you for the invitation, Senator Wyden, to speak before your committee.
Too often valuable timber lands are neglected to the point they become tinder boxes for catastrophic fire.
The fact is current forestry programs do not provide a stable source of funding of jobs or funding for local communities...
There could be a path that was better for irrigators, better for the river, better for the fish, better for the tribes.
My own sense is this will require legislation.
I think it's worth noting the Klamath County Circuit Court already declined to intervene just in the last few days.
Suffice it to say what we're trying to do is sort of throw out the textbook with respect to a lot of these issues.
We're going to stay at it until we find a solution this time.
