If the mechanical treatment of hazardous fuels is less expensive ultimately both monetarily and really environmentally, ...
It's also tough. I know that when we have had prescribed burns up North you're really subject to a window of weather con...
In the 2005 Interior appropriations report the Forest Service was directed to provide a strategic plan.
I would agree. So it sounds like you are withholding judgment or perhaps not certain, actually how this provision coming...
If I could urge any expediency I would certainly do that.
In looking at that visual there in at least, 6, or 7 of the past 10 years, we have not guessed right.
How do we reconcile what I perceive to be a mismatch between what the administration has recommended for fire suppressio...
I think he said that 2 percent of the fires consume 85 percent of the suppression funding.
I see no reason that the Forest Service or BLM should be dealing with pandemics or other civil defense crisis as a core ...
That's why this reserve fund is important.
But whether it's 2 percent or whether it's 3 percent, I think we understand what we're dealing with.
Today I think we have seen fire preparedness and suppression become the tail that literally wags the dog.
As I mentioned Alaska is on fire, we're having actually a really nice summer up North.
I have looked at the 2009 quadrennial fire review report.
The fire programs now cost the Forest Service more than 50 percent of its overall budget.
I'm pleased to be here today to discuss wild land fire management by Federal agencies.
I believe that the Indian 8(a) preferences are achieving important economic development objectives and are well worth pr...
We are concerned as an IG with the unlimited sole source awards that do not provide the government the best value.
