Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"I do support the agency's many programs that deal with recreation and with wildlife."

"You have got to find a different path here that does not punish these struggling rural communities for the agency's failure to manage our Nation's forests."

"I just can't go back to the superintendent of the schools in Wrangell, Alaska, because for him, these few thousands of dollars mean everything to him and his budget."

"I believe that this situation teaches a larger lesson about the failures of the agency's current forest management policy."