I want the rangers to be number one, period, the best job in the world, as it should be.

I am going to, we are going to, push a lot of resources back where they belong, out of the middle and upper management, and back on the front line.

When we changed the laws that have made it virtually impossible to manage our lands, our economies have withered and our forests are dying.

There seems to be a complete disconnect between the global warming enthusiasts and the policies that they are recommending to us.

Thank you very much for your testimony. And we will be happy to provide them for you, beginning right now.

For 40 years, we have experimented with laws that have proven disastrous to the health of our forests.

These forests are going to grow, regardless of whether we manage them or not, so we are either going to grow timber products and use them, or we are going to grow firewood.

treatment matters.

Does it suggest also that perhaps we should expedite the salvage of fire-killed timber while it still has some value and before it begins to decay and release enormous quantities of CO2 into the atmosphere?

Well, that is exactly right. And that gets me to my next point, which is if we are facing warmer weather, and if CO2 is the culprit, doesn't that point to a greater need to keep the tree density under control?

It is hard to believe that the climate can be so precise as to know exactly the property line between the private and the public lands.