How do we reconcile what I perceive to be a mismatch between what the administration has recommended for fire suppression funding and the reality of where we know those dollars are...
In looking at that visual there in at least, 6, or 7 of the past 10 years, we have not guessed right.
Do you get concerned at all with the fact that, you can't always rely on the National Guard when you need them?
If I could urge any expediency I would certainly do that.
I would agree. So it sounds like you are withholding judgment or perhaps not certain, actually how this provision coming over from the House...
In the 2005 Interior appropriations report the Forest Service was directed to provide a strategic plan.
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 ...
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 th...
I think we recognize that when you have strong timber harvest programs that reduce the fuels, decrease the intensity of the fire and ultimat...
Would you agree that we might ultimately need less in that FLAME fund or perhaps use less if in fact we were to do the prevention work?