Harry Reid: “I will never forget the drive from Pasco, WA, to Seattle over the great Cascades. Those mountains and trees, the forests…”

“I will never forget the drive from Pasco, WA, to Seattle over the great Cascades. Those mountains and trees, the forests are so much different than the forests of Nevada. We are very proud of the great treasures we have around Lake Tahoe and other forests we have in Nevada. But the Cascades are in a different class, with totally different kinds of trees, different forests. That is what the Forest Service is all about, having these people, who sign on to the Forest Service for life, to be the guardians and protectors of these great national treasures such as those around Lake Tahoe and those beautiful Cascades that I drove through. To think we are considering putting these great national treasures out for profit rather than posterity frightens me.”