Rob Bishop

The Endangered Species Act was passed 40 years ago to try to recover and restore imperiled species.

This is an important piece of legislation we need to move.

We need to have a longer-term solution to that.

I appreciate that. Mr. Wiley, it is good to have you here again.

I would wonder if you would agree that the Indian trader rules should not be used as a vehicle to pre-empt the authority of state and local governments to tax non-Indians on tribal land.

I would simply make that request of all of you.

Mr. Denham is a great Member of Congress. He works hard on this Committee, he does a wonderful job.

I was very sincere when I say I don't know what I want to do, what the right answer is.

I think there are two basic choices. If Congress wants to establish and articulate the standards that are 'consistent' with Carcieri or change new standards, that is certainly their prerogative.

Often these types of hearings and panels are basically staged events, where I know what answer I want to hear.

If, indeed, a company was held to Federal standards, but the state actually did the permitting process, could such a system actually work, and facilitate faster permitting?

And it is not just DOI that was dealing with that, as far as permitting. Sometimes the EPA got involved, which basically shut down any kind of production they would have, going forward.

So, the only reason somebody would actually bid on Federal lands is if they can make money.

Active forest management is crucial to establishing healthy and sustainable forests and decisions for forest management should be based on sound science.

On behalf of the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF) and its 230,000 members, we urge you to take swift Committee action on H.R. 2936 the Resilient Federal Forest Act of 2017.

I write this letter in whole-hearted support of a proposal seeking to extend the moratorium on leasing, pre-leasing, or any other related activity in any area east of the Military Mission Line in the Gulf of Mexico.

I appreciate your objectivity on finding efficiencies in the BLM.

I think it is going to take the secretarial level to work through this.

I am also pleased with the Administration's commitment to improve management of existing Federal lands and resources rather than growing the bureaucracy and siphoning money from productive uses to expand Federal land acquisition.

Although mismanagement of our Federal lands and Washington's neglect of local, state and tribal communities began long before the Obama administration, the layers of arbitrary rules and regulations promulgated over the past 8 years have…

Even when the Democrats owned the House, Nancy Pelosi, they had a filibuster-proof Senate, and Mr. Obama was in the White House, they still could not get this passed through law because it was so contentious.

We would request that no more money be spent on the wolf introduction and the wolf recovery program until they give us some plan and some program.

The President's 2018 budget reflects a commitment from the Trump administration to increase access to Federal lands, reduce burdensome regulation, and improve conservation without unduly impacting economic development.

Congress and the executive branch working in concert is the only way for us to overcome years of mismanagement at the Interior Department.

Your Department has brought more transparency and accountability to National Monument designations in the past few months than the rest of the Antiquities Act's 111-year history.