Thomas McClintock actually said...

the lands that you are responsible for--are densely overgrown, stressed, and dying, and you lose money doing that.

Private lands are usually healthy. They are well managed. Tree density is matched to the ability of the land to support it, and they actuall...

If you found a rattlesnake curled up in a corner of your bedroom that wasn't doing anything, would you simply monitor it until it did?

So, I guess the first question is, why shouldn't we extend that to the 193 acres of the U.S. Forest Service?