To be a good steward and to conserve our resources, we have to manage those resources.

Thank you all very much for being here today.

We have this mixed-up idea in the Federal Government anymore where we confuse this preservation with conservation.

There are no downsides to a healthy forest.

It is a wonderful place to live, to vacation, to move you and your wife here, Mr. Bishop.

We need to make sure that we get this right.

I cannot and will not support any proposal that threatens our good-paying, full-time forest products jobs in the state of Maine.

This is not a political issue for me. This is about our families. This is about our jobs.

We are asking the President not to do another one in my state unless you have the input first.

I actually have a piece of legislation in my state to create a new national monument.

I have been a vocal critic of a national park in northern Maine for many, many years, and now the national monument.