As we learn more. Good day, everybody, on this wet, wednesday, january, thank you for wacking up early and joylinging us. Hi, bob. You know its a holiday monday and its already wednesday. Right . This was kind of a quick week. Zip ago long. Not soon enough though until friday. You need your jaekt, brum brel a, araptorss at the else about fargo center tonight. Temperatures in upper 30s and 40s out. There visibility not great in many places. Dover, delaware, Atlantic City, new jersey, lancaster, pa, reading, trenton, up in mount pocono, six miles visibility at the airports. So watch out allow extra time. Where we are in the upper0s. Lancaster, reading, pottstown, trenton, pretty closing to freeze in mount pocono and could be sliply. 4 in is they and plenty of rain to show you. Its very spotty. Still around. But not as much as we got yesterday especially last evening when we had so many downpours. Lingering showers first and then lingering clouds. Were hoping for enough sunshine to take u
[inaudible conversations] we are back for round number two. Everyone has had a little bit of a stretch. Palmer spent, we your endurance here. You are probably thinking, nothing like what you are used to, but we appreciate the fact that you have been generous with your time and your questions here, so we will allow for members to ask another round of questions. We actually have another confirmation hearing that just started up at 5 00 p. M. That i will head off to when this is concluded, so we are working fulltime here today. It may be more popular than mine. No, this is very important. Congressman, went to ask you about an issue that alaskans care a great deal about and given the makeup of our land and the fact that so much of our land are held in the federal estate under the Alaskan National interest Lands Conservation act that specifically provides for a no more clause and makes very clear that within the state of alaska when it comes to those areas that have been withdrawn from publ
[inaudible conversations] we are back for round number two. Everyone has had a little bit of a stretch. Palmer spent, we your endurance here. You are probably thinking, nothing like what you are used to, but we appreciate the fact that you have been generous with your time and your questions here, so we will allow for members to ask another round of questions. We actually have another confirmation hearing that just started up at 5 00 p. M. That i will head off to when this is concluded, so we are working fulltime here today. It may be more popular than mine. No, this is very important. Congressman, went to ask you about an issue that alaskans care a great deal about and given the makeup of our land and the fact that so much of our land are held in the federal estate under the Alaskan National interest Lands Conservation act that specifically provides for a no more clause and makes very clear that within the state of alaska when it comes to those areas that have been withdrawn from publ
Test. Test. Test. Test. Test. We talked about different parts of alaska, especially the lower part where the opportunity to harvest timber in a reasonable, sustainable traditional method has been taken off the table. Thats hurting real communities and some areas in washington, the catastrophic fires, why do we have fires at the extent and magnitude that we do each year . The senator franken talked about global warming. The statistics i have from a single summer of forest fires in rose bud county, which very few people know other than senator danes, made it more particulate in the air during that season than running 3,000 years of coal strip. So lets manage our forest, our fires, our lands the way it was intended to. That means having the voice of alaska and the voice of the people that live there. And if i may, when we say how it was intended to, lays out clearly that reservation to the state of alaska with regards to the fish and Wildlife Management authorities. So i look forward to d
Zinke. Good afternoon, everyone. To get started this afternoon, i just will give lay of the land herer i i will proceed with my Opening Statement and then senator cantwell with hers. After senator cantwells remarks we will hear from our colleague, the montana senators, senator dains and senator tester. Senator danes is on the complete here and senator tester, good to have you here as well. They will introduce our distinguished witness and other member of the montana delegation, representsive ryan zi zingk zinke. I will swear in the witness and ask him three questions we address to all nominees at confirmation hearings. So thats how we will proceed this afternoon. I think its important for us all to recognize we also have a vote that is scheduled about 4 15. So that will cause a little bit of an interruption but we do want to try to move as expeditiously through this hearing as we can. Before i proceed, id like to recognize an individual who is wellknown to this committee room. Thats th