"I have packed a lot of 2 by 4s and 2 by 6s over my lifetime."
"91 percent of our harvest comes from private land, just 6 percent from State and tribal lands, 2 percent from Federal lands."
"Litigation. The Forest Service is afraid to make a move to do anything for fear of litigation."
"Would a short-term moratorium on lawsuits for high-risk timber or insect-infested timber--and, by the way, 'insect-infested timber' is D.C.-speak for dead trees."
"Yet loggers are struggling to find work."
"And most professionals I talk to, including the Chief, they just want to do their job, do what is right for the forest, and do what is right for the rural communities."
"I agree with you."
"We are running out of logs. Last Friday I was at a saw mill. The only logs they had left they were cutting at this mill were burned logs from a forest fire last summer."
"In the private sector, if you do not produce results, you do not get paid."
"I would also like to highlight that the federal government has a spending problem, not a revenue problem."
"I believe we need to take this principle one step further by tying it to a balanced budget."