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.

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.

If the issue is the price and the importation because of lack of harvest, then if we are harvesting Federal land, shouldn't that stay for domestic use?

We are not managed to maximize revenues.

Congress also bears serious responsibility.

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.

That is one of the reasons why I put out that accelerated restoration strategy.

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.

There's a crisis in our forests. No one disputes this simple fact.