Just very briefly, Madam Chair, in our part of the world, disputes in the West about taking water from a river used to be resolved with a gun.
Now they tend to be resolved with steel pipe and water conservation projects, and that is why, as you noted, the WaterSMART program is such ...
Collaboration is essential in getting the work done.
We commend Senator Wyden for holding a Congressional hearing and encourage other hearings and forums where the merits of this legislation ca...
Recognizing the need for landscape-scale restoration throughout the forests of eastern Oregon is commendable.
We commend Senator Wyden, his staff, and the stakeholders who participated in developing S. 2895.
I mean, that is all about keeping those mills.
S. 2895 represents a concerted effort on the part of the timber industry and its political allies.
This bill is the latest in a series of bills that increase logging on our national forests.
I can tell the people of the Pacific Northwest how much sweat equity went into this effort on the part of Dr. Johnson and his spouse, I woul...
I wrote that a decade ago. A Democratic president didn't really want to sign it, and I got it reauthorized in the last Congress when a Repub...