I wish there was something we could do that would reduce the climate change we're seeing, and the warming of the planet.

I completely agree with you on we need to stop subsidizing building in high risk areas.

the only thing that actually makes any measurable impact at all is putting a price on carbon

I wish there was something we could do that would reduce the climate change we're seeing, and the warming of the planet.

That feels very punitive, and you can imagine how my constituents feel about that who are dependent on a living and provide a service to these people.

On the one occasion the Supervisor did agree to Congressman Curtis's request to rescind the termination of all temporary guide and outfitter permits last year, he subsequently revoked the guides' and outfitters' access to the Lone Peak…

If we are not getting the help and the coordination that we need from the Federal Government we are literally shut down as a state.

This has led to this amazing frustration, and I regret that we couldn't resolve this with this local office and I have to bring it here in a public manner to you, but I don't know what else to do.

The Utah Wasatch-Cache National Forest has been unwilling to work with us on finding creative ways to meet the needs for more priority permit holders, as opposed to temporary permit holders.

Our local guides are experiencing great frustration, as am I, in their ability to get permits to do that.

Two-thirds of the land in Utah is owned by the Federal Government.

What I am saying is, if we don't have that special attention to do this at the most basic level, where we are actually helping the individuals, we are going to continue, like Mr. Taylor was highlighting, the just an enormous amount of…

If we don't deal with that, we won't have the resources to be able to deal with emerging crises as they develop as a result of climate change and economic disruption of various kinds.

As you all probably know, my state is one of those that has been experiencing a great deal of drought.

The state has taken a lot of action to try and address that.

I guess I had thought as a non-climate scientist that with all the warming, there'd be more rain and things would get wetter.

The state has taken a lot of action to try and address that.

I think perhaps Energy and Natural Resources (ENR) would be the committee that would be focused on this more than Budget.