In my home state of Wisconsin there is a grassroots effort beginning to take shape called the North East Wisconsin Collaborative.

We support efforts by Chairman Wyden, Senator Crapo and others to address this issue in a way that both ends the disruptive practice of fire transfers and provides resources to manage and restore our forests so they are more resilient to…

I want to thank you for your commitment to resolving this challenging problem. I appreciate very much your work on the forest roads fix.

The Wyden bill will exacerbate climate change by accelerating the transfer of carbon from the forest to the atmosphere.

We applaud you, Senator Wyden, for the initial efforts to streamline procedural requirements pertaining to the environmental impact statements.

As we take a look at the amount of funding and the funding stress on the forest service, to move to the areas of highest risk seems to make sense to me.

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

A huge priority for me and the Governor is a more coherent policy for protecting our rivers, streams, and aquatic features.

Adequate timber harvest levels must be distributed throughout Western Oregon, including the drier southwest Oregon forests, if we are to maintain the health of the forests and keep the remaining industry infrastructure.

There is no reason that a sustainable compromise cannot be forged that creates jobs for Oregonians, protects the current mill infrastructure, sets counties on a sustainable economic path, protects our forests both public and private from…

In this room, back in 2007, Larry Craig and I wrote the bipartisan Secure Rural Schools Bill, and that got extended for 1 additional year.

these lands are not and cannot be managed for their stated purposes.

We hope that Senator Wyden will be willing in the coming weeks to discuss possible ways to increase the certainty of achieving the outcomes intended by his bill.

The current paralysis can't continue, either--not without causing even more pain for folks who could be making a good wage.

For these reasons, I believe Senate Bill 1784 is the only politically viable solution for managing these lands currently on the table that could help avert the current crisis in Oregon.

Congress should not step in to eliminate this important science-based conservation program.

I believe getting natural resources policy right represents what is best about our country: wise use of our treasured lands, air, and water.

Make no mistake about it: Wildfire threatens our water supplies and our very way of life in Colorado.

Yet, that proposal has already received a veto threat from President Obama here in Washington and is threatening to reignite the timber wars back home in Oregon.

The public overwhelmingly supports protection of both mature and old growth forests on public lands.

We must oppose S.1784.

It's been a real pleasure and a privilege to work with you on this issue.

I hope you can appreciate my interest in, and my advocacy for, your continued advancement of S 1784.

When you take a serious look at our debt and deficit in the coming decades, tax reform that does not help stabilize our debt is simply fiscally irresponsible.

The middle class is getting smaller in America.