This budget, which goes in the opposite direction, which proposes cutting $300 million from fire suppression, is not the direction we need to go.
I also do not understand zeroing out collaboratives. These are things that have given us our best effort to date on working collaboratively.
The science says that we should be focusing our nation's attention on funding and getting ahead of the fire problem.
I do not see how the President's budget even begins to enable the Forest Service to fulfill its motto of caring for the land and serving the...
I will guarantee you my colleagues here in the United States Senate are well on their way to having that fixed.
I cannot imagine a universe where anyone thinks that status quo at the Forest Service is acceptable, particularly in regards to the fires th...
I hope that as my colleague and I continue to work on this, we certainly will not be shortchanging the volunteer fire departments because th...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and thanks to the witnesses.
I'm from Washington and we want to innovate.
So Alaska could play a very valuable role for our country that way.
I mean, I am pretty sure in 20 years, 25 years, we are all going to be in the energy business.