This is the worst thing that can happen to the cattle industry out in the West. It will put a lot of family ranches out of businesses.

the burden of the Federal Government's failure to properly manage our public lands frequently falls on you and the local government.

H.R. 1345 was introduced by Congressman Gosar (AZ) to address the forest health, public safety, and wildlife habitat threats.

I support payments to the counties from the stewardship contract.

I strongly support it.

I think you just have to hand authority over to us to manage it under our State Forest Management Practices Act.

The problem is the pandemic of the endemic problem of the bureaucracy in between.

I mean it was vibrant. Today, a little over a year-and-a-half after the largest forest fire in Arizona history, we had yet to salvage one log, not one log here.

I would like to work with you on some ideas about how we can maybe move forward to address this issue.

I appreciate your interest in helping us with that issue, and it is one of the things we continue to work on.

I cannot begin to emphasize the enormous economic damage that you have done to these communities.