On the recordJune 14, 2022
I thank the gentleman from Idaho for making a point that it is really the underlying reason that we should be--or the underlying question we should be talking about is, Why do we need to recover America's wildlife? It is because we have messed up badly. We have mismanaged our Federal lands. Catastrophic wildfires run rampant. That does nothing to help wildlife habitat, and it is sad that we are actually here looking for funding and ways to fix something that we should have already fixed, something that we shouldn't have broken in the first place. I think there is a way to recover wildlife, if we would just simply manage the habitat that the wildlife lives in. That is the purpose of this bill, but it is going to take some worldview changes, and the so- called environmental groups that are pushing to stop the management activity are going to have to allow this activity to take place. It doesn't matter how much funding we put out from the Federal Government; we are going to continue to see wildlife habitat destroyed, and we are going to continue to see the loss of wildlife. So it is not a problem that simply throwing money at will fix, and it is, again, a problem where we should put a program in place, come back and evaluate it, and decide whether we want to continue the program based on the merits of the successes of it. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
