Doug LaMalfa

We have to have people that invest, they need to have confidence that they can be, over a 30 year period that they will have a steady supply that we can guarantee from Federal land.

Prescribed fire is not going to be popular, maybe, at all times, but when you do a comparison of a controlled situation there, and how we are going to reduce the fuel load we have, when we do it wisely, the right time of year, the right…

I find it very frustrating that some Members of Congress ... continue to try to put a stop to what Forest Service ... are trying to do.

I appreciate Mr. Costa bringing up that the forest plan needing an update for many years.

These past years have, again, been incredibly difficult for my district, and my neighboring districts too.

We need to be hauling straw, and we need to be, shaping waterways in some fashion, and not be devastated this year.

It took the dust from the Dust Bowl to reach the steps of the Capitol to get action, and we hope that we don't have to deal with the smoke and the ash from this.

There are big problems. And yes, whether it is 60 Minutes, or what have you, there are people on the ground that... feel very strongly about this.

Last year we saw over 10 million acres burn, over 40 percent of it in California alone.

We know there are some 63 million acres at medium- to high-risk of wildfire.

Congressman Stauber's district had a mill announce a closure about 15 months ago directly related to the impacts of the drop and demand for paper products.

We need to be doing more active management immediately to reduce the threat of these fires and save lives.

We are very, very thankful for the work of our Maine delegation, especially Jared Golden and Senator Susan Collins.

I know she wants to be a partner as well, with that, I think we had a really good start today on this discussion during this 2021 fire season of where we can go.

I greatly appreciate us having this opportunity to have this very important hearing today, and cover the subject, as it greatly needs to be, and ongoing.

I appreciate today. We need to do more of these hearings on wildfire.

If we just dedicate it as a set aside and then never touch it, once again, you're going to have the same problem we have in a lot of the forested areas.

Last month, 27 of us sent a letter to TSA and CDC about their decision to renew the mandate through September 13.

I appreciate our ability to work on these issues together in a bipartisan way, in a productive way.

As I said, if Congress would bless the idea of preplanning the salvage so that resalvage outside of wilderness and roadless can go forward in an expedited fashion, that would enable us to get the fiber on a timely basis and help pay for…

We have to have everything on the table as far as the private-sector helping with our Federal lands.

We have a situation in the far north part of my district.

We want farming the basin to continue, but we have to set up a much faster process to get the aid out.

Our markets are pretty open to foreign imports, but we don't seem to have the same level of enforcement.

If we can't require them to take our items back on export, then what is the best way to stop this unfair situation?