Your leadership greatly appreciated.

the relocation of the 18th Aggressor Squadron to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER) should not be interpreted as the first step in a process that will lead to closure of the base.

It takes 20 to 30 years to grow a tree, so you better plant it today.

Are you working together I guess is the question that I am asking.

So, has there been any assessment on the impact to small businesses that may be on the Federal lands?

Would moving the F-16s from Eielson AFB to JBER require either an environmental analysis or an environmental impact statement (EIS)?

There's a consensus coming out of the report that says that a rate increase is not warranted.

The best time to plant a tree is now.

I think we have got to pursue this weatherization more aggressively.

One of the concerns that I'm hearing from folks is that the concern that these will be overlapping or duplicative regulations that are coming out of BLM on top of what they already face within the States.

I'm still hearing from folks that they feel that the agency is still understaffed, and that is causing what they consider to be ongoing delays.

Well, we need to be working on this together, so I appreciate that.

So, are you suggesting then that the cost benefit analysis will still be coming to us?

So I'm trying to understand our data here.

We recognize that there is no one silver bullet.

I want to try to better understand some statistics that are out there.

I would like to hear that assurance that Eielson AFB will continue in that very, very significant role.

It takes a long time to translate what you have been talking about into a difference in the market.

I still have a very difficult time understanding a proposal that would somehow possibly decrease our presence in Alaska.

I understand that. And I will, in probably my next round here, ask about some of those incentives or disincentives that we impose that kind of pushes, those that are in the exploration and production realm, to go from Federal lands to…

I think it causes developers to look to develop on State and private lands before they would turn to our public lands.

So the question that I have is, who's right here?

You've got a long ways to go.

But this is where the confusion is because the statistics are being used to suggest that there is this incredible increase in oil and gas production.

We think the mystery surrounding hydraulic fracturing has actually been exacerbated and people have been paranoid really for no reason.