09/15/2009
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"Thank you so much, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Metcalf, one of the areas recommended in this bill is only 390 acres in size, far below what the Wilderness Act requires."
"We are comfortable with the bill as written."
"It is my experience in the west that the greatest threat to western open lands, it is not oil and gas... it is houses."
"In Wyoming, the revenue largely goes to the county, and as you know Sublette County is the wealthiest county in the State of Wyoming by virtue of the production of oil and gas in the county."