Doug LaMalfa

Dozens of infrastructure projects are ready for implementation, but require the necessary funding.

I hope that we all leave here with a better sense of what we can do in the Subcommittee to help the Forest Service carry out its mission.

I mean, as far as boosting the amount of recreation happening, is that a part of the strategy?

With them down significantly, and since recreation is a primary driver of road use; how much is being done to boost what is coming in on recreation fees, not by just raising the fees, but actually having more access in order to keep from…

I appreciate it, Madam Chair, and for your appearance today, Ms. Lago, and I will yield back.

I would be really interested in that, how much that is adding to the burden of an already difficult situation.

A significant portion of the backlog, nearly 75 percent, is maintenance of the 370,000 mile road system within our forests.

As we know, the National Forest System created more than 100 years ago, designed--and this is an important key point--for multiple uses for the surrounding communities.

Under Secretary Northey, I really appreciate you being here and the good work you are doing over there, so thanks.

There is a human factor of those driving the buses and the people driving the cars.

Questions from Hon. Doug LaMalfa to Kristin Poland, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Office of Highway Safety, National Transportation Safety Board.

Coming into the third round they have done things to simplify it?

That takes everybody over 60 out, right?

I am proud that so many farmers and foresters in California have taken voluntary steps to promote soil health.

The issue of soil health has continuously been highlighted by producers and stakeholders during the 2018 Farm Bill deliberations.

Thank you, Chair Spanberger, for holding today's hearing and for your help on this issue.

There are a lot of concerns that some of these ideas of this policy would be pretty negatively impactful to farmers.

Certainly, underlining domestically grown, domestically harvested as an offset for the inventory and the wildfire risk.

Thank you for convening this hearing today, and it has also been a pleasure to work with you so far leading up to this point.

Thank you again for your support on considering this measure with an amendment in the nature of a substitute.

Despite its simplicity, H.R. 1126 corrects a tremendous error in the gravemarker benefit that our veterans and their families have earned.

This is a simple bill. As you reviewed it, you probably noticed it takes up just one page of substantive legislative text.

When you have happy drivers, less frustration, all that, things go better.

What I don't hear often enough is, to me, happy drivers are drivers that are moving and getting to where they want to go.

We need to dramatically change how we manage forests in California and the western states and across the country.