Rob Bishop: “Do you think, though, that this kind of a guidance would diminish or water-down a true wilderness characteristic?”

This ban is even more ridiculous after we just locked in mandatory spending of $900 million in perpetuity with the so-called Great American Outdoors Act.

Thank you. I appreciate it, sir.

Is the gentleman sure he really wants the Federal Government having a forest in his place?

The current system protects biodiversity over 100 percent of the Economic Zone of the United States through the councils.