Grizzly bears are predators. There is a small handful of members on this Committee that actually have grizzly bears in their districts.

I think the tribal pay is even worse.

I encourage us all to look at maybe a pilot program on a forest scale of, you know, that scale, and look at it and see if we can do longer-term contracts.

I do believe that if that was changed, then you would see a lot more participation with the Good Neighbor authority because it really is a great tool for how we do our work.

Public safety is a disaster.

The disasters that are being caused by climate this year is just absolutely devastating in.

Gray wolves are fully recovered, and should remain delisted in the Lower 48.

I need your commitment that we will do, you will do, your people under you will do, the people in the communities, the people in the region are going to do their best, not only to listen, but to react to what they are hearing.

Eisenhower talked about the military industrial complex, and now we have firefighting industrial complex.

Human-bear conflicts have risen significantly, as bear populations expand into historically unpopulated areas.

But should the State have a say?

You also are aware that China is the biggest offender on illegal fishing.

I can list all the farmers that you say that support this thing, and there isn't a one of them that I know that supports water of the U.S., your rule, sir.

We need to have a serious discussion about how to do more with less.

And also these mills, we have to guarantee them, to a degree, enough material so they can survive.

I am ready to have the necessary and tough deliberations about how best to spend our limited Federal resources.

These bureaucrats and some members of this Committee insist on telling Montanans how they should go about their everyday lives.

It shouldn't be more difficult for the Forest Service to operate in Montana than in Wyoming.