The conservation designations included in Senator Wyden's Oregon Treasures Act, S. 353, are surely that-National treasures.
We've got to get people back to work in the woods in my home State.
The BLM supports S. 757 and its goal of providing for the long-term economic development needs of the City.
We are grateful to Chairman Wyden and the Committee for taking this on.
Water is life, and without access to water, the world as we know it ceases to exist.
The cost of the damages associated with last year's drought exceeded $35 billion.
I urge the Senate to pass S. 335, which was also included as part of the Water Resources Development Act of 2013.
We urge you to resist any attempt to remove this exemption.
this is a provision based on a law that we adopted in Oregon when I was Speaker that worked incredibly well.
I first wanted to ask about, we have a mill in John Day that has been at high risk of closing.
Thank you. And I do appreciate the advocacy for funding. This has been a key, key set of programs.
With the changing or the more extensive droughts, we're going to see that this problem of accumulated fuels becomes of more and more dreaded...
If we lose the infrastructure that's out there because we don't have predictable supply, then it all falls on the taxpayers, it all falls on...
Thank you. And are you satisfied with the stewardship contracting reauthorization as structured in the Senate farm bill?
Okay. So we anticipate getting that done, and hopefully, we'll get it arranged through the House.
We're looking at a proposed budget that cuts the hazardous fuels reduction in half.
We had a fire the size of Rhode Island last year in Oregon.
I wanted to start by echoing Senator Udall's comments in regard to the proposed reduction in funding for hazardous fuels reduction.
