Jeff Merkley actually said...

"the primary reason that I have been hearing, personally from firefighters, is the pay gap."

"I advocated for and we included in last year's funding bill $7 million for startup funding for the Department to begin consultations with tribes."

"we have to bring balance to our forests through collaboration, we need to work across the lines, the divisions of the timber wars of the past."

"the world is at this crisis point."