When enacted, the proposal is expected to annually generate over $100 million for county governments, over 500 million board feet of timber ...
We need to provide for a sustainable solution that serves our forests, our communities, and our counties better.
In short, our bipartisan solution would designate younger, previously managed timber stands for sustainable timber production to be managed ...
This is an important and timely hearing and I'm encouraged by the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks Forests and Public ...
If our goals are to protect homes and communities from wildfires, we should do that.
But there is one point about this that I think should achieve broad support beyond Oregon among my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, wh...
The discussion draft is not a perfect bill. There are parts I would change.
I recognize my colleagues from Oregon, Representatives Peter DeFazio and Kurt Schrader, for working with me and many other Oregonians who ag...
How could we let this happen to our rural forested communities?
It's time for real change.
Everything I have seen indicates that if we want to prioritize protecting homes from wildfires, we should start in the wildland-urban interf...
And I believe you looked at an option that would incorporate some of additional public domain lands which are interspersed.
But given the fact you have that tool, what is the greatest restraint on you conducting forest health fuel reduction projects?
So it is a budgetary constraint. You don't have enough money to do the projects, projects that you could do under the existing laws with no ...
It is time for action. It is time to stop talking about principles and concepts, and start moving forward with specific legislative ideas.
The discussion draft did not include the recent legislation introduced by Senators Wyden and Merkley.
President Theodore Roosevelt, the father of our great forest system, would be horrified at the condition of our forests and our rural commun...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks to you and Chairman Bishop for this opportunity by granting the request to myself, Representative Schrad...
