Counties and forested communities are calling on the congress to provide them the ability to pursue the American ideal of self-reliance once more.
Would you agree that responsible treatments in our forests reduce fire severity, or mitigate insect infestation?
Don't you have a job, though, truly, to manage the forests? If they burn, there is nothing to manage.
I would really encourage you to revisit that particular portion of what you are doing, in terms of the budget requests, ...
So that responsible treatment is a positive move that we need to be making.
We are depopulating in eight of my counties. This is not a good thing.
My folks aren't saying, 'Look, we don't recognize you all have a money problem.'
But I do hope you recognize these are not just western issues.
It shouldn't be Groundhog Day every time the Forest Service goes to do a new restoration project and spending 70 percent...
The Forest Service itself has admitted and made the comment we are suffering now from 100 years of mismanagement of our ...
From a management decision, shouldn't we prioritize, in tough economic times, where those dollars are really going?