it is just mind boggling that we are actually having to have a hearing to talk about pushing back on the administration that is trying to tear out green energy from the Pacific Northwest.

Even if we are not worried about mining it for 50 years, we will have just signed off the future because we didn't deal with it today.

We can do lots of good for the environment while we are building up our capacity to mine in space.

Yes, and if we want to put solar panels in, let's not clear-cut forests to put solar panels in.

I urge you to prioritize it in the upcoming farm bill reauthorization.

I noticed that a big, mature forest that it was private land. Somebody had apparently sold that, they clear-cut it.

I'm passionate about conserving trees, particularly when it comes to national treasures like our Giant Sequoias.

I appreciate the work that the Agriculture Committee has done to address forestry issues.

Instead of bearing the brunt of Federal mismanagement, tribes should be looked at as models of ways we can improve the health and resiliency of our Federal forests.

Earlier this year, the House unanimously passed the Treating Tribes and Counties as Good Neighbors Act.

It also shows that tribal forest management shouldn't be an area of partisan division, but rather, bipartisan compromise.