Okay. So maybe you can work with us on some of this TA that we are looking for?

I want to discuss the issue of opportunity between the Forest Service and many of our tribes, specific to tribal co-management.

But I do want to impress upon you that right now the community leaders, the mayors of the Borough of the Kenai Peninsula, as well as within the Anchorage area, they are coming to me, not for more in appropriations, because they are not…

this is new for us. And what we are seeing, it is traveling like wildfire, and what you look at, as you are as on the coast, or flying above, you can visually see the movement there.

I thought that we were going to be a little more competitive, perhaps, in the Community Wildfire Defense Program Grant.

I have already set up a team internally to start looking at how we might address that.

I have long said that I do not believe that we have to choose between a healthy forest and a healthy economy.

Thank you Mr. Chairman. Appreciate the opportunity to be back at work here on the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies;

Thank you Chairman Jeff Merkley, Ranking Member Lisa Murkowski, and Members of the subcommittee for your leadership to reduce pollution in rivers, improve clean water access, safeguard public drinking water supplies.

I appreciate that. But our situation here is, at the end of 2022, the unobligated balance for IHS was $6 billion.

I think we have made upholding the Federal Government's trust responsibility a bipartisan priority, and it needs to continue to be so.

How do you respond, though, to just the reality that that the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) creates a rural priority for subsistence based on where one lives.