The Wyden bill severely limits citizen lawsuits.

Senator Wyden and Representatives DeFazio, Schrader, and Walden have 'stepped up to the plate' to take on this very contentious issue.

The sad fact is the current management in place on Oregon and California Railroad lands (O & C) is essentially non-management.

We applaud Senator Wyden for explicitly recognizing drinking water source protection and support efforts to expand these designations to additional areas.

The PLF feels that neither of these bills will result in a workable solution for the O&C lands.

We appreciate Senator Wyden's efforts to protect the old-growth forests and other special places of western Oregon.

I applaud Senator Wyden for his willingness to step into the circular firing squad which O&C lands have become.

It is our hope that your committee will come together in conference with the House delegation and incorporate the best elements from each of these pieces of legislation.

the BLM provided extensive technical assistance to his staff as they worked to develop the bill

It's way too soon for the pendulum to swing back and erase the environmental progress that has just begun.

Increased clearcutting on public land is not the answer.

I believe you are essentially the gold standard for how you go about trying to promote principled bipartisanship.

It simply must change.

With your efforts, with Congressmen DeFazio, Schrader, and Walden, I think we can reach a resolution.

This is legislation that I believe can pass both houses of the Congress and actually be signed into law by the President.

Assuring future decades of reliable harvests that averaged 300 and 350 million board-feet per year will give employers confidence.

Legislation to double logging on our federal lands... is sure to reignite public sentiments and cause social strife.

We look forward to continuing that work together when you move over to that next seat.

We applaud Senator Wyden for his initial efforts to streamline procedural requirements by the creation of a programmatic EIS.

My concern is, as it has always been with those kinds of approaches, that we would reignite the timber wars in our part of the United States.

When Oregonians honored me with the opportunity to represent them in the Senate, I made a beeline for this committee.

Senator Wyden's bill is an attempt to restore some semblance of rational management to the O&C lands.

The Wyden bill WILL increase clearcutting; it WILL increase carbon emissions; it WILL degrade water quality, it WILL set back efforts to recover listed fish and wildlife; it WILL degrade Oregon's quality of life and undermine efforts to…

I want to make it clear I'm going to work in a bipartisan way with Senator Murkowski and all of our colleagues to quickly mark up this legislation and bring it to the Senate floor.

The Wyden bill has some serious drafting problems.