I encourage an alternative strategy, which is that we actually fund capital improvement and maintenance.
Our mills really are depending on the public trees because the private trees are being exported to Japan and to China.
It is simply a situation where when we do exceed the account and have to shut down other programs, then even the removing the dead and dying...
I appreciate that a great deal.
We have a water mold pathogen in Oregon, referred to as Sudden Oak Death, and it is a huge threat to our nursery industry.
Franklin Roosevelt said that the test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether we do ...
We would like to have a buffer in that world. Is that something you could consider examining and supporting?
Does that meet the test of strengthening the ladder of opportunity? Just yes or no.
I wanted to echo the concerns about PILT that my colleague from Montana put forward.
States remain our Nation's frontline environmental implementers and enforcers.
I would like your help in taking that on.