John Salazar: “We can't be hostage to the whims of dictators from the Middle East or other places around the world.”

I wouldn't support stopping anyone from using our legal system to protect our forests.

Don't they say in the West you can steal my wife but don't steal my water? I don't say that.

The mountain pine beetle epidemic in Colorado and throughout the West is devastating, Madam Chair. It is destroying our forests and threatening our communities.

This combination of perspectives--sensible energy production and other resource development with a sharp eye on the need to protect more enduring values and resources--hopefully will return our national public lands management to the true…