Pete Domenici: “We here in Washington, DC, are only getting to view the State of Arizona, as it burns, on our television sets. We have…”

“We here in Washington, DC, are only getting to view the State of Arizona, as it burns, on our television sets. We have seen, in the last few days, large forests in Colorado burn. They are not under control yet. We can only imagine the additional fires that are likely to come in the State of New Mexico. New Mexico has already had a number this year. We also had a series last year and the year before. Senators remember when we came to the floor about Los Alamos, NM. There, the forest burned right around the city of Los Alamos. We lost almost 400 houses. We have not lost that many this year, but the way the fire season looks, there will be plenty of damage. I just want to say to the Senate and to those listening, it is this Senator's opinion that we have not made an American decision about the maintenance of our forests. I believe we have made decisions in a haphazard way because of litigation and certain people in our country who think they know best about forest management.”