"Montana had two of the three most expensive fires in the Nation."
"I brought the Chinese Ambassador to Yellowstone Park a week and a half ago."
"Thank you for your testimony, Mr. Shafroth."
"Thank you, Ranking Member Hirono."
"If we can actually reduce some of these redundant environmental reviews in a way that still protects the integrity, but actually increases efficiency."
"I think his bill goes a little too far in some places, and we would like to work with the committee to ratchet it back a little bit."
"You could have a massive, massive bipartisan victory in the next 2 months using these bills before this Committee as a basis."
"I think there is a collaborative process we can have between now and markup to have that conversation."
"We say out in Montana either we are going to manage the forests or the forests are going to manage us."
"If you compare this bill to the House bill, it is already much more concise, and I think there is some concern that if you are only looking at the project level, when there is new information that com..."
"We burned over 1 million acres in Montana this fire season."