Thank you for framing in the budget a 5 year reauthorization with mandatory United States Forest Service funding.
Should we not succeed in doing it, it could be a catastrophe in many, many ways, for all of the stakeholders.
Our whole goal in Oregon is to avoid a listing.
We have to understand that all our lives, the danger, the uncertainty, the need for alertness, for effort, that discipline will be upon us.
I would like to see us put a timeframe on 2001, despite, as you point out, that there is an enduring threat.
I appreciate the administration putting forward the AUMF. I think it is our responsibility under our Constitution to wrestle with it.
We are all going to suffer if the planet continues on its warming pace?
Part of the conversation we are having, as initiated by the Chair, was how the U.S. changes operate in the context of a global challenge.
Thank you for bringing forward a plan that encourages each State to find the most cost effective, flexible way of taking on carbon dioxide.
Currently, we are on a path where our carbon pollution has gone up to 400 ppm, up from about 270 ppm for the industrial revolution.
Your plan allows partnerships to occur between States as another form of flexibility?