I want to turn to the Western Oregon operating plan (WOOP), as it is referred to, and this is a plan that coordinates the approach to wildfire response.

boosting the boots on the ground, if you will, across Indian country seems to be a central tenet of this request.

We found the three C's, if you will. We found the cartels. We found the corruption, and we found the climate change.

We can no longer view these villains as natural disasters, what they really are, are human-caused unnatural disasters.

Forest Service salaries--I should say, Federal salaries, in many of the locations across the country is not holding up to salaries in other non-Federal jobs.

they need to be put at the top of the list for consideration of being labeled as endangered.

Always better if a problem never occurs, a crime is never committed.

One of the goals was to develop a program that would provide labeling so you have pollinator safe according to certain standards.

I am quite pleased that we had that legislative achievement, and I hope the advance helps with the predictable and stable funding for years to come.

There are two routes to doing this. One is kind of a voluntary effort through the Xerces Society, but the other is for us to have a regulation that says you can label these plants pollinators safe if they have been raised in this manner.

We need to really reduce the risk of fire and that means directing resources to do forest management.

I really salute the administration's commitment to those--to the four programs: So one is the dioxin cleanup, one is the disabilities with children, and a third is continuing the demining, and the fourth is the Wartime Accounting…

Do you like that term, tribal sovereignty fees?

it is as bad as coal.

I think it would be very significant to the tribe.

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

Forest Service salaries--I should say, Federal salaries, in many of the locations across the country is not holding up to salaries in other non-Federal jobs.

I want to emphasize that word, 'required'.

I want to turn to tribal co-management. The Klamath Tribe in the southern part of Oregon, their reservation was taken back by the Government when the tribe was terminated.

And for the first time, we provided $5 million specifically for FRIMA activities.

Everywhere I go in Oregon I hear people say: Let us do everything we can to make the forest more resilient.

Yeah, absolutely. We are determined to try to prevent that fire borrowing, which is why we are keeping the window open for a supplemental of another $450 million.

Transitioning to LNG is not decarbonization.

I adamantly oppose the Biden administration's approval of fossil fuel projects, one project after another.

I want to turn to tribal co-management. The Klamath Tribe in the southern part of Oregon, their reservation was taken back by the Government when the tribe was terminated.