Thank you very much. Mr. Chairman, I have no other questions other than a disagreement with your analogy example of taking all those barrels of waste, and it would be like 20 times the size of the House chamber.

I appreciate these answers about what the interpretation is and what it has been for the Park Service and all of its sites.

Many of us supported the Chairman's legislation and his efforts to move this legislation last Congress.

We have to deal with forest management, but it isn't just forest conditions that are in crisis.

We've failed to have a serious conservation about what future management should look like.

The crisis of confidence in the agency responsible for managing National Forests isn't really the issue.

The time for political posturing is over. I'm ready to sit down with my colleagues and try to work on something that has a chance of being enacted into law.

The time for political posturing is over. I am ready to sit down with my colleagues and try to work out something that has a realistic chance of becoming law.

Congress also bears serious responsibility.

Climate change is driving up the frequency and severity of forest fires, and this is a reality that has not been ignored by the Forest Service and other management agencies.

We failed to have a serious conversation about the future of management and what it should look like.