Right now we have in Arizona, because of another fire that we had, these companies are telling us that they don't have enough NEPA-ready acres to sustain their stewardship contract...
The fact is that tribal sovereignty is a key element in management of your own lands and to criticize your management is, in a way, an affro...
The health of our forests is critical to the health of our communities.
Frankly, we have had fits and starts on the non-Indian land.
Forest clearing matters immensely as to the amount of damage. We are going to have forest fires and they are probably going to get bigger. W...
We would like to see the budget cap lifted so that it can be treated like other national emergencies.
Today, our Federal Government frequently spends over $2 billion fighting forest fires in active years.
In the State of Arizona, we have lost approximately 20 percent of our forest to wildfires over the last decade.
I'm not sure why the money for forest clearing should be in the same pot, very frankly, as fighting fires.
As I am sure has already been mentioned, our forest communities are experiencing wildfires on catastrophic scales we have never seen before.
Mr. Brooks, I want to thank you for the great job you all are doing and your stewardship.