Thomas McClintock actually said...

So, excessive Federal landownership is not protecting our forests. It is destroying them.

It is just human nature that the most jealous guardians of a community are the members of the community, not some far off government in Wash...

Should the Federal Government not take care of the land it already holds before acquiring still more lands?

So, put simply, surface water storage gives us nearly four times as much water for the dollar as desalination.