Good afternoon, everyone. The subcommittee will come to order. T purpose of todays hearing is to receive testimony on 15 bills pending before the pin lands, are forest and mining subcommittee. Because of the large number of bills on todays agenda, i wont go through all of them right now, but the complete agenda will of course be included in the record. I want to note that we have a former member of our committee here, former senator mary landrieu, and we have members who will be joining us shortly who have another Committee Assignment at the moment and others who will be joining us telephonically. I also want to begin by recognizing the staggering loss of life that has occurred embedded within what has shaped up to be a really horrific wildfire season. More than 36 people have perished in infernos raging throughout the western United States this year, dozens more are missing. In oregon, my colleague senator widens home state, thousands have lost their homes and over half a Million Peop
Works subcommittee will address options to address the wild fires and Forest Management. This includes testimony from an interior Deputy Department official and deputy chief of the u. S. Forest service. Good afternoon, everyone. This subcommittee will come to t order. The purpose of todays hearing is to receiveands testimony on i bills pending beforece the publo lands force and mining subcommittee. Because of the large number of t bills onhe todays c agenda, it going to go through all of them right now. But the complete agenda will, of course, be included in the record. I want to note at the outset weve got a former member of our committee here, former senator from louisiana, longtime member of the senate and this committee is in the back. Weve got members who will be at t who have tly another Committee Assignment at the i moment. E. We have others who will be d eme joining us dtelephonically. As i want to recognize the staggering loss of life that has occurred embedded within what has
Alamos road near fawn drive and scotland drive in Sonoma County. The sky Hawk Community has had to evacuate there have been many homes lost already they cant get near these areas other than to fire fight the cant count. The number of buildings that have burned. But we do know that at least entire winery with an in has burned down to the ground weve seen several homes go up in flames right before our eyes. Also a lot of ranch land included in that 10,000 plus acres total yeah, in fact as daryn mentioned skyhawk we have some video from their earlier from 4 Sarah Stinson was there as well and that is. One of the areas where weve actually seen homes burn in our live pictures, right there along the roads that border skyhawk drive in fact, heres a map illustrating where these fires are burning right now so let me lay the land for you. We had as i mentioned early yesterday a fire break out in napa county thats the icon you see towards the upper portion of the screen. That is the glass fire. W
Between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate a. M. Nue beyond 10 50 the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from North Carolina, minutes. , for five ms. Adams thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise this morning to honor two North Carolina women who left us this year, former former dr. Dorsett, representative mcalister. I admired and was friends with them. Of they were both educators who service. Public proud graduates of historically colleges. Founded and led organizations to cell a anemia. Lows of personal tragedy, both women were predeceased by a child they loved like a best friend. They were both county commissioners and state legislators. All, trailblazers. Katie dorsett was the first black women on the greensboro i was proud to follow in her footsteps. After serving on the security she was elected to the county board of commissioners and went on to serve in governor hunts administration an
Community and the dozens and dozens, it is worrisome to me that none of those have been chosen. I see, director davis, did you have anything to add on this point, director davis . I did, thank you so much, supervisor ronen. I just think, too, director simles point, we have been engaging with quite a few partners and folks on the ground and one of the challenges weve seen just with outreach and engagement, especially in the Latino Community is a disconnect and we have to be intentional about outreach and engagement, where those trusted messengers are and where folks feel like they can trust the information theyre getting is not a setup for something. We have to be really intentional and we have some of those relationships. We have the ability to leverage that, and so, i wanted to drop that point in there, because we have seen so many challenges where some folks are skeptical and cynical about why someone is sharing information with them and so they need to be connected with folks that t