John Salazar: “It is very difficult to justify diverting even more resources to manage paperwork for a permit that is duplicative of…”

we cannot let bureaucratic impediments or the balkanization of the Federal Government essentially stand in the way of results.

We need proactive forest management to restore our forests to a more healthy condition and reduce the threat to communities from raging wildfire.

We have been able to address some of the issues along the urban interface areas, but, as you see, the devastation is incredible in Colorado.

There are some realities that are going to hit this committee, the Members of the Congress, the President-elect and all of us, and that is, that we are in some very tough economic times.