My concern is to me it sounds like the government's attitude is cost is no object and fairness is no object.
I hate to be stalled by someone who is using a law to, just for that purpose.
If we thin the forests, they are healthy; if we fail to thin them, they are ravaged.
Now there is word that all four major global temperature tracking outlets release data showing the temperatures have dro...
I think if the motive is just to stop the process, that is not a good use of the law.
Thank you, Madam Chairman; a lot has been said about the interaction of temperature and water on the beetle infestation.
The litigation is a creature of this Congress. Perhaps we ought to reign it in.
Why aren't we?
But if we salvage them for lumber, and do so in a timely fashion, is that not a money maker for the Federal Government?
Is there not a great deal of commercial value to trees through thinning, if they are used for lumber production?
As Congresswoman Herseth Sandlin said, we have actually still got a viable industry there.