The heart of the problem it seems to me is pretty straightforward. We are having more large wildfires.
Almost every year the Forest Service has to go out and spend more money on wildfire suppression than it has budgeted.
Putting them out means spending more money on what is known as wildfire suppression.
I thank my colleague. You're absolutely right in terms of your diagnosis and the opportunity to move ahead.
But that's what the agency has done over the last few years. That's what we continue to get testimony isn't getting the ...
I'm looking for some specifics because what we have heard in the past is largely just a recycling of the various approac...
I look forward to working closely with you.
We need still, though, more resources to reduce hazardous fuels and suppress wildfires that do occur.
So I'm really going to push hard to try to find out specifically what's going to be done now.
So Ms. Dalton, we have gone round and round over the years on this question of what the agencies are doing to reduce fue...
I want to thank you in advance for stepping up to a higher standard here when it comes to working together.