It is nice to have someone from Wisconsin here to illustrate how this is a situation and an issue that transcends the entire Nation.

Thank you. And we welcome you as part of the panel.

We have spent $1 billion a year trying to recover the salmon runs up the Columbia River, clear up to Montana.

One of the ironies I have found is that often those, even in the Federal Government, who are on the land and who actually live there, make decisions that seem to be common sense.

I hope it was worth your time. I do know that the answers that you gave to Committee members were interesting, were insightful, will be helpful for us.

I appreciate the fact of what you have done with the lands that are yours as part of the Reservation, part of the treaty rights that you have.

Thank you for being here. The hearing is adjourned.

OK. And as an old school teacher, I really appreciate that one.

2 percent of the paperwork, nearly 1,000 times the result, and this is a lesson we need to take very seriously.

Forest management is complex. There is not a one-size-fits-all approach.

We will hear from one of our witnesses today about a similar model in Wisconsin.

Rather than offering the all-too-familiar rhetoric of how complying with one Federal order or another costs too much, it is time for the Federal Government to adjust how it does business, and honor its statutory responsibilities to manage…

The last few decades have seen our National Forest System fall into complete neglect.

Today this Subcommittee is hearing testimony on non-Federal forest management and what the Federal Government can learn to better promote healthy forests and rural communities and jobs.

What was once a valuable asset has deteriorated into a growing liability. So I believe our national forests and public lands are long overdue for a paradigm shift.

By the end of this fiscal year, CBO projects that the debt held by the public will reach the largest percentage of GDP since 1950.

Let me just say, Don, that these are two of the best people in the Senate.

It was bad policy when we debated it, it was bad policy when the Democrats rammed it though the Senate, and it is still bad policy today.