Brandon Williams: “I am for salvage sale logging. I am for it done appropriately. It means a lot to the health of our forests and to our…”

“I am for salvage sale logging. I am for it done appropriately. It means a lot to the health of our forests and to our economy. So, I was intrigued when this Congress passed this fast track salvage sale bill, and I have watched it plan by plan, tree by tree. I am here to tell Members we made a mistake and we ought to change it. Now, let me give a couple of examples on the ground in Montana, in the Northern Rockies, in some of the wildest forest land left in this country. This House, just 2 years ago, voted to put 1.7 million acres of that land in wilderness. This salvage sale logging bill proposed to harvest trees in that very area, and it was so egregious that for the first time in history, a President of the United States and the Secretary of Agriculture had to reach in and lift this 1.7 million acres of Federal wildland so that it would not be under the chain saw of the salvage sale bill.”