Lisa Murkowski actually said...

if your policies are going to shut off our timber opportunities in the Tongass... it just kind of suffocates you after a while.

I am glad the Service has acknowledged the importance of the program and requested enough funding to extend FIA to interior Alaska.

This conversation is just the same whether you are up north in Alaska or whether you are sitting there in Montana.

Well, that is clear in Alaska because we have run off the timber jobs.