Political Quotes

“on July 24, the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry reported to the Senate H.R. 1904, the Healthy Forests Restoration Act. This bill reflects a comprehensive effort to improve forest health on both public and private lands. The bill provides Federal land managers the tools to implement scientifically supported management practices on Federal forests, in consultation with local communities, while establishing new conservation programs to improve water quality and regenerate declining forest ecosystem types on private lands. The legislation will reduce the amount of time and expense required to conduct hazardous fuels projects. But it also will require rigorous environmental analysis of such projects. Over the past few years, we have seen many communities destroyed and many firefighters' lives lost due to forest fires that could have been prevented. Instead of managing our national forest treasures, the U.S. Forest Service has been forced to spend great amounts of time and resources battling lawsuits. The result has been months and even years of delays in fuel reduction projects. Our forests have continued to suffer, and they have continued to burn.”