Lisa Murkowski actually said...

This hearing is a valuable contribution to this Committee's understanding of why the federal timber sale program has failed in Alaska.

There will be opposition to this approach just as there will be opposition to S.1784 and S. 1966.

The National Forests were established for two reasons at the turn of the 20th Century; watershed protection and timber production.

If this is going to be precedent, it would be helpful to know that there is a set of criteria that doesn't allow for such discretion, again ...