I certainly do encourage that level of awareness, education, and training to follow through with the law that the Congress has passed.
If I could urge any expediency I would certainly do that.
Do you get concerned at all with the fact that, you can't always rely on the National Guard when you need them?
In looking at that visual there in at least, 6, or 7 of the past 10 years, we have not guessed right.
The fire programs now cost the Forest Service more than 50 percent of its overall budget.
As I mentioned Alaska is on fire, we're having actually a really nice summer up North.
Today I think we have seen fire preparedness and suppression become the tail that literally wags the dog.
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 p...
I think we recognize that when you have strong timber harvest programs that reduce the fuels, decrease the intensity of ...
I'm from Missouri and you've got to show it to me. I've seen it and I'm ready to do something about it.
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 ...