The history of the Clean Air Act Amendment shows that compliance costs have been far lower than expected when laws are implemented.

the disparity is wrong, and if we care about investing in healthy management of our forests, we have to invest in our Tribal partners.

Can you provide a list of partners and communities for best practices in collaboration and find the right balance of managing our forests with the right mix of benefits under multiple use and also still recognizing the need to remove…

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we are going to have to have a long-term funding strategy for these issues.

sometimes government can react a little bit too slowly, and we need to figure out a way to make sure that those investments are made.

The current processes and procedures being used by the Cibola National Forest for the collection of forest products for traditional and religious purposes is overly complex and intrusive.

I mean that is what I would certainly like to see.

I agree that lawsuits or the threat of lawsuits can paralyze productive efforts on management activities.

We really don't have a resources funding vehicle so that we are doing management and conservation in a productive way.

That is a very dangerous path for you to go down, but I accept.

it would be really helpful to continue that dialogue, and to have access to responses about that internal civil rights report.

For your public safety, your firefighters and your communities, that your capital investment fund is the same as your personnel fund, so we are going to cut personnel every time we get a new firetruck.

it would be great if maybe you could provide the Committee a list of those partners and communities where you think we identified those best practices

the status quo about how we are funding both prevention and fighting forest fires is not working.

The current cycle of fire borrowing is not working, and contributes to more fires.

Clearly protecting and improving the management of our forests are top priorities for me and many of the communities in my district.

I hope this hearing will help identify ways that Congress can help prevent wildfires, improve the way we respond to fires, and assist communities with post-fire recovery.