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Preparations committee worked on 2021 spending today, earlier they debated interior and Environmental Department spending which included several amendments, your congresswoman chairs the committee. Good morning. I called a meeting on appropriations to order. And before we begin, they require me to remind you we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. The email address has been provided to your staff. First, consideration of the interior environment appropriations bill, fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize ms. Mccowan to present the bill. Good morning. I want to thank Ranking Member, for his strong collaboration of partnership throughout this entire process. Been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography being social studies teacher, it borders with the great ....
Good morning, i call the meeting of the committee on appropriations to order. Before we begin now house rules require me to remind you that we have set up an email address to which members can send anything they wish to submit in writing at any of our hearings or markups. That email address has been provided to your staff. Our first order of Business Today is consideration of the interior and environment and appropriations bill for fiscal year 2021. I will now recognize miss mccullum to present the bill. Good morning, and thank you, madam chair. I want to thank Ranking Member joyce for his strong collaboration and partnership throughout this entire process. Hes been a great partner from the great lakes and a little geography, being a social studies teacher he borers with the great state of ohio on lake erie and in minnesota we border on lake superior. Id like to thank the sub ....
Test. Test. Captioning performed by vitac so when lewis and clark met the shashonis the horses had spanish brideless, they said where did you get them, they said we got them from the spanish. 12 days ride away. As i understand it smallpox take 14 days for the symptoms to appear. So if you are the shashoni you can be home sleeping with your wife, kissing your babies before the smallpox erupts. It goes pretty much everywhere. Black feet get it from shashonis, goes across the northern plains, goes to the villages which are a central trade network. In the winter 1783, 84, hudson bear Company Traders on the shores of hudson bay who are used to indian people coming in and bringing their pelts, nobody comes. So they go out into indian villages and people are dead. And they talk about going into the lodges and gathering the beaver pelts themselves because their customers and hunters are all dead. Its the same epidemic that broke out in m ....
Thicket. This is not a big grove. Not a bunch of yards from end to end. It is still pretty important for moving through a cultivated landscape. It is one of the few wild places that remain here in the valley floor. Time, bears here all the particularly in the fall when they are out looking for wild and mastic fruit. Actually, we have a willow tree back here, where a black bear was bedding for about a month and a half. A pretty gnarly willow, it has been used extensively by bears for a bedding. One bear was here for about a month last year. I will show you whats behind. If you come through here, you can see on the trunk of this tree, the way the bear has worn the bark from climbing up. Call marks, the spark here. You can see this pile of bear in the crook of this branch, just above here, they left a pile this big, which is pretty impressive. You can see the place where the bear was. This is all very close to our house. From where i lay my head at night. It is a good illustration of the ....