Rob Bishop: “If you are going to have these fires all of the time, and it is predictable where it is, why do you not go in and thin…”

I appreciate this opportunity. This bill has got one thing that I think is going for it very heavily in that it authorizes the opportunity of having the Federal Government being forced to actually deal with the local community on…

There really is no reason to add to this hearing--unless it is to give Members another 5 minutes to campaign, or speak on the bills. It is kind of a waste of time.

State management gives you a greater opportunity of having success than if you have a Federal Government management system

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