Why the heavy-handed threats that I get anecdotal conversations about?

The wires are indeed a critical issue in our forested areas like that.

Recent legislation that we have passed here that included the Broadband DATA Act to help better simplify this information.

the COVID closures, again, are really making it difficult to get timely assistance through the conservation programs in certain areas.

your comments are very timely and very appreciated in that regard.

Yes, unbelievable. Well, hopefully with most of this COVID nonsense behind us, we will be sharpening these issues up a little.

To both of our witnesses, I was wondering how something that Mr. O'Halleran had touched upon on the post-fire projects, and how are these watershed protections and such coming along as we had an incredible amount of rain and snowfall in…

The Forestry Title in the farm bill must be used to increase the pace and scale of forest management.

Your thoughts on what is working and is not working is so helpful to us as we try to make these policies stronger.

But there is still accountability the taxpayers would demand and expect, right?

Farm bills aren't easy to pass around here. It is tougher every 5 years, it seems, to get it done.

It will help boost the high-speed internet in those mountainous areas and help with smoke detection.