Cspan, creative by private industry, americas cabletelevision company, as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Mark kenyon was born outside of detroit, michigan, and raised there. Introduced to the outdoors and young age he grew up hunting, fishing, hiking and camping. After college he worked for google and started the blog and podcast wired to hunt. His ratings has appeared outdoor life and field stream, a member of the lifestyle meet eater inc. Pickiest hike, camp, rafted come hunted, fished his way across public lands in montana, wyoming, michigan, california, arizona, utah, nevada, colorado, north dakota and elsewhere. Without further ado, mark kenyon. [applause] thank you, samantha. Thanks all for being here. This is terrific. I am thrilled to be here to tell you all about my first book, and i thought to myself that it would be appropriate to start with a funny story, i thought was funny, and this being my first book and my first book tour, i got
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Morning, everyone. The committee will come to order. Were here to examine the deferred maintenance needs of the public Land Management agencies. This is a topic i care about. I know each of you certainly, the folks on this committee, have expressed concern. Not just coming into this hearing today, but, really, over the years. When we consider deferred maintenance, we most commonly think of the 12 billion maintenance backlog accrued by the National Park service. We consider that here in the committee at great length and it rightfully continues to attract a great deal of national attention. But somehow and sometimes overlooked in this conversation are the deferred maintenance needs of the other federal Land Management agencies, including the Forest Service, the bureau of Land Management and fish and Wildlife Service. Combined with the park service, these four agencies face a deferred maintenance backlog totalling 19. 4 billion. Thats worthy of repeating. Within these four agencies that g