Ron Wyden

Senator Wyden's framework aspires to generate legislation to safeguard clean water and treasured resources and focus on long term conservation of habitat.

Senator Wyden's legislative framework suggests the creation of wilderness and other permanent land use designations whose primary management focus will be to maintain and enhance conservation attributes.

The idea that we may 'modernize' federal laws suggests sufficiency language, which would deny the public the right to review forest management.

Federal lands should remain under federal control and be managed for the best use with respect to public needs and desires.

I believe we should highlight the successes of collaboration and incentivize collaborative efforts to get restoration work accomplished.

Congress should not continue to sit on the sideline while the agency engages in endless gymnastics in the hopes that it will satisfy the courts.

This is not something from the 90s. I don't want to belabor.

I want to use for my analogy the Eugene District of the BLM.

Senator Wyden; and Representatives DeFazio, Walden, and Schrader have initiated collaborative efforts to better understand and address these multifaceted concerns.

You've got to come to one of my town hall meetings because the problem is now.

In my view too many of our forestry programs are not working for forest-dependent communities, for taxpayers or for the cause of protecting America's natural treasures.

Thank you for the invitation, Senator Wyden, to speak before your committee.

Too often valuable timber lands are neglected to the point they become tinder boxes for catastrophic fire.

The fact is current forestry programs do not provide a stable source of funding of jobs or funding for local communities.

The status quo is unacceptable.

Instead of generating revenue, too often Federal forest lands have become a burden to our taxpayers.

I am writing to express my support for your June 20 hearing on 'Water Resources Issues in the Klamath River Basin' and to recognize what an important milestone a Congressional hearing on these issues is for residents of the Klamath Basin.

I would like to thank Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Murkowski, and the entire Committee for taking the time to hear testimony on this issue which is vitally important to every resident of the Klamath River watershed.

This measure is vitally important to the welfare of the Upper Klamath Basin.

The political and financial obstacles that stand in the way of the KBRA

If we had achieved political consensus, however, no matter how you feel about that, we wouldn't be here this morning.

I'm grateful for your leadership in holding this important hearing.

I wanted to thank you personally for your interest.

We look forward to working with you, Senator Wyden and this committee, to solve these problems.

Senator Murkowski had a lot to do here this morning, but she wanted to put in an hour because she understands that this is a proxy.