"Everywhere I go in Oregon I hear people say: Let us do everything we can to make the forest more resilient."
"All three provide transformative investment."
"We can no longer view these villains as natural disasters, what they really are, are human-caused unnatural disasters."
"We need to double down on other forest management activities critical to forest resilience and forest health."
"the budget also proposes a new program, it is a program-- actually I can't say it is really new and that we funded it in the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act--but it will be new to our annual Appropriati..."
"we really have to push to map the acres around our most vulnerable towns, and how we thin and treat those forests even if they are more expensive per acre."
"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."
"Hazardous fuels reduction continues to be very important, and between the Bipartisan Infrastructure Act and Inflation Reduction Act, Congress invested more than $3 billion in the Forest Service's haza..."
"the primary reason that I have been hearing, personally from firefighters, is the pay gap."
"The Bipartisan Infrastructure and Inflation Reduction Act provided for investment in high-risk firesheds."
"Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"What can we do to actually implement significant co-management work that I find completely appropriate and valuable?"