Does this cause your mountain bikers some heartburn?

But I notice that you say hike, paddle, climb, ski, snowshoe, mountain bike.

Mountain bike is not allowed in wilderness areas.

I just want to say thank you for holding these days of public testimony. I think they are important and I look forward to the testimony of the witnesses.

I have been talking with Earl Blumenauer about, it is time, quite frankly, in this country, for another Gallatin Commission.

I do not think anybody with a right mind denies that there are global warming issues.

It is such a huge problem, and such a huge backlog, that we do not know how to get our hands around it, quite frankly.

If you are an Administration, you want the employees of that Administration singing what the Administration line is.

these types of things that are in Salmon, Idaho, it is a Smithsonian exhibit on fences

I do not know that there is any coordination between what we are all doing--if we are overlapping, if we are not overlapping, if we are leaving gaps and holes.

closing 47 of these sites is not in the best interest of Idaho or of the country quite frankly.

I am hopeful that this committee keeps a very close eye, and I am sure we will, on how these funds are being used.

I just wanted to get it on the record.

I would like to see it, because that has been one of my concerns is that everybody is throwing money at global warming.

I am very concerned that a year or two years or three years from now we will be sitting here having hearings on the misuse of those funds or the waste of those funds.

If you can get people together beforehand, get them on the plane early, you can solve a lot of the problems that would come up later on.

A Band-Aid on an artery that is bleeding has an effect, but in fact unless you sew that artery up, you are in trouble.

If you want to build in the wildland urban interface, however that is going to be defined by a county ordinance or a State law or whatever, there could be insurance consequences which fund exactly what Representative Cole was talking…

I do not want to see us in 10 years look back and say, man, we have spent a lot of money on this, and we have no coordination, and we got agencies all over the place.

It is very clear that one of the most important roles the Department of the Interior will play in the coming years relates to securing our energy future.

I am actually hopeful that future generations that aren't born yet will look back at us and say, 'Well done,' that we preserved these precious landscapes for them.

We need a commonsense proposal to updating this mining law.

I realize the previous Administration is responsible for almost everything, but let me ask a couple questions.

I admire that and believe that you are setting an early tone that is balanced and reasonable.

I will tell you that part of the problem is a lot of these agreements need to be worked out in advance.