"Both the Governor of Nevada and the Governor of California have declared the Tahoe forests, the three national forests around Tahoe, in a state of emergency."
"I am very concerned. When I have been to the lake--which is rare, I must say--but when I can go, I notice very little burning activity."
"These forests have to get cleaned out of dead, dying, and down. And they aren't being, and that is just a fact."
"These MAFFS units are vital."
"I am terribly worried about these forests because we have got a lot of bark beetle. We have got a lot of dead trees."
"I believe it does need some special attention. We have lost 3 million acres in the last 2 years from wildfire."
"I flew out with the President, flew over Shasta, and it was like a moonscape. Everything was burned, all around the reservoir."
"We may just change that, Senator, and increase it."
"I would like to ask one last question on a subject that I have had a good deal of conversation with of your forest supervisors, and that is the Quincy Library Group, which has been a very frustrating ..."
"I just want to say I very much welcome your oversight and trying to push people."
"So if we had done it 10 years ago, when we tried to do it?"
"if this fails, the only alternative is for us to go ahead with very stringent legislation like a categorical exemption, which nobody wants to do."