And in the eastern part and southern part of my state we have had droughts that have gone on year-after-year.

Are you familiar with that NRCS Framework, and do you support that?

I knew you would know every nuance of it.

I knew you would know every nuance of it.

And in the eastern part and southern part of my state we have had droughts that have gone on year-after-year.

Water management is essential or we lose agriculture across a broad swath of the West.

Can we recognize that this is an incredibly powerful tool to help address the goals in the Western Water and Working Lands Framework, and can we move some of that funding back into the direction of helping the Western Irrigation projects…

The irrigation districts are responding by, one, changing their practices on the farm to get more crop with less water.

Can we recognize that this is an incredibly powerful tool to help address the goals in the Western Water and Working Lands Framework, and can we move some of that funding back into the direction of helping the Western Irrigation projects…

Are you familiar with that NRCS Framework, and do you support that?

The irrigation districts are responding by, one, changing their practices on the farm to get more crop with less water.

Water management is essential or we lose agriculture across a broad swath of the West.

I would appreciate any help that we can get.

Are you familiar with that NRCS Framework, and do you support that?

I would appreciate any help that we can get.

And in the eastern part and southern part of my state we have had droughts that have gone on year-after-year.

And the irrigation districts are responding by, one, changing their practices on the farm to get more crop with less water.

I was just up at Crater Lake where they showed that they have lost 240 inches of average snowpack over the last 90 years.

But I asked that simply because there is a tool that was incredibly effective that I worked to revitalize.

Can we recognize that this is an incredibly powerful tool to help address the goals in the Western Water and Working Lands Framework?

Yes. Thank you. And certainly this is an agenda that we can continue to push forward.

I've been pushing the administration to set up just such a hotline and the reaction so far has been modest.

Amen to that. And I have a bill to change that, so Thank you, for drawing attention and spotlighting that issue.

And yet here we are continuing to promote one project after another.

I think this is particularly challenging in Tribal settings where people may be more remote, have fewer folks nearby to assist.