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

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.

There's one particular landscape restoration project of great importance in my district: The Upper Wenatchee Pilot Project.

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

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.

We need to increase the pace and scale of landscape projects that reduce hazardous fuel loads.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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