10/17/2016
https://www.congress.gov...
"Given rising suppression costs and the fact that the agency spends nearly half of its budget on wild fire management which I think my colleague, Senator Johnson, alluded to."
"But I also want to echo the concerns of my colleagues about the reduction in timber targets from 2.6 billion to 2.3 billion as I read it."
"I want to thank you and your team for your efforts to implement 3 long term stewardship contracts in Colorado that have already released fuels around communities while providing valuable forest produc..."
"I'm not going to continue on and have that conversation with you. But I hear you saying you're focusing on what we call the red zones of the WUI, the Wild Urban Interface."