Lisa Murkowski actually said...

"It's also tough. I know that when we have had prescribed burns up North you're really subject to a window of weather conditions."

"If the mechanical treatment of hazardous fuels is less expensive ultimately both monetarily and really environmentally, then paying for the suppression of these large catastrophic fires, why would we ..."

"So how then do we make sure that we have done all that we should be doing again, to reduce the hazardous fuels if we're not insuring that the dollars are available to do just that."

"I think we recognize that when you have strong timber harvest programs that reduce the fuels, decrease the intensity of the fire and ultimately decrease the costs."