I want to do a follow-up here with Mr. Crockett. I think, as I listened to our witness from the Department of Interior, I hear pretty strong support for S. 4370.
So I too want to make sure that we are not setting something up here where we have divergent views or opinions as to how...
Obviously, fire doesn't follow borders drawn on a map or any other strictures of law.
Well, what I did hear you say, Mr. Crockett, is that Forest Service does support removing the bordering or adjacency req...
I want to focus my comments this afternoon on S. 4370, this is the Tribal Forest Protection Act Amendments of 2024.
TFPA empowers tribes to harness indigenous knowledge and western science when conducting forest management projects.
Too often these fires ignite on remote Federal lands and spread to tribal lands, endangering Native people, property, in...
I want to acknowledge my Committee intern, Nyche Andrew. She is Inupiaq, she is Yup'ik, she is from Anchorage.
This is not acceptable. The forested lands owned by ANCs are in every aspect Indian forest land.
I believe this measure is timely, it is well warranted.
Mr. Chairman, I think you can hear, whether it is from Alaska and our lands up north to the lands as far south as New Me...