10/09/2013
https://congress.gov...
"At my age, nothing can improve my game."
"We can change courses, but if we do so, it will require that we are not impeded by inflexible regulations, impeded by frivolous lawsuits and appeals."
"As many of you are witness to each day, the Mountain Pine Beetle has turned most of Colorado, not to mention pine forests throughout the West, into a sea of dead and dying trees."
"A sharp decline in forest management--and I should say because of aesthetic, not scientific reasons--has left these forests in an extremely unnatural and unhealthy state."