We are loving the trees to death and not doing what we need to help them.

So, I hope that we can move forward here and put the decisionmaking where it belongs, and that is in the hands of the tribes and the local community.

I firmly believe that government is most effective when it is closest to the people, and those decisions that are made locally have a big impact on local communities.

When we look at poverty, the number-one anti-poverty program has always been a job, and it is the local entities, it is the tribes, it is the businesses that create jobs.

There is not a downside to having healthy forests, and that includes on the environmental side.

What seems like a good idea from a building in Washington, DC, has real impact out on the ground across the country.

Where I am from, we say actions speak louder than words. The words I hear from this Administration is it is all about protecting the environment.

I believe there was a program that was tried in Tennessee that failed back in the 1990s.

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