Mike Lee actually said...

"Can you tell me, Chief, why is it that we are not allowing more timber harvesting when doing so would produce not only economic opportunities and aid a lot of these rural communities who have suffered..."

"Another prominent issue in Utah involves timber harvesting. According to your agency's own numbers, the volume of timber harvested on Forest Service lands has decreased by about 80 percent just over t..."

"These communities are deeply frustrated because timber harvest not only boosts their economies, but they also improve forest health and they help protect them from the risks associated with forest fir..."

"In your research you've noted a connection between, on the one hand, low rates of marriage and high family instability among working-class whites and, on the other hand, 'deaths of despair.'"