Implemented properly. Agriculture, nutrition and Forestry Committee members talked to farmers, Rural Utility Service officials and Healthcare Industry leaders about issues impacting Rural Communities. Including access to Rural Broadband, Water Infrastructure and Health Care Services and agricultural production. Good morning. I call this hearing of the Senate Committee on agriculture and nutrition and forestry to order. Todays hearing advances this committees continued oversight of the department of agricultures implementation of the 2018 farm bill. A principle duty of this committee is to ensure that the department had the authority and resources to provide the agriculture producers with the necessary tools to feed a troubled and hungry world as well as this country. But the responsibility of the committee and the usda does not stop there and it is critical as Partnership Supports businesses and the electric cooperatives and telecom providers, schools and clinics and the product manufa
Captioning performed by vitac families in Rural Communities are also concerned about access to health care. Especially with the Mental Health and Opioid Crisis taking a devastating toll on small towns. We address this head on through expanded telemedicine to provide critical treatment for those who suffer from addiction and mental illness. To ensure that every family has safe Drinking Water, we prioritized rural Water Infrastructure investments for small towns. Rural communities need strong locally owned businesses and good highpaying jobs. Rural Small Business investments are critical to creating jobs, promoting entrepreneurship and revitalizing main street. In michigan where we make things and grow things, agriculture and manufacturing are both at the heart of the economy. Thats why we created opportunities to support bio based manufacturing. Companies are creating new products from americangrown crops. We also provided permanent funding for value added agriculture grants to help far
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Talking about landscapes and preservation and sort of how preservation unexpectedly changes the places that we set aside as parks or other protected. The intention here is really not only to sort of understand the history of these kinds of protected spaces, but then also to make the process of preservation more visible, to make easier to understand not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time, but sort of more importantly, why they changed over time. Because most of us, when we think about preservation, we think about some things staying the same, and yet preservation actually things. So thats really kind of the focus were going to aim at today. And im going to manage this. So there we go. So in the context of of open space lands here in the u. S. , were often there sort of this presumption that Public Ownership is the best way to protect the landscape. And we even see, you know, the the mini series by ken burns from a ways back on National Parks that was called am
Talking about landscapes and preservation and sort of how preservation unexpectedly changes the places that we set aside as parks or other protected. The intention here is really not only to sort of understand the history of these kinds of protected spaces, but then also to make the process of preservation more visible, to make easier to understand not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time, but sort of more importantly, why they changed over time. Because most of us, when we think about preservation, we think about some things staying the same, and yet preservation actually things. So thats really kind of the focus were going to aim at today. And im going to manage this. So there we go. So in the context of of open space lands here in the u. S. , were often there sort of this presumption that Public Ownership is the best way to protect the landscape. And we even see, you know, the the mini series by ken burns from a ways back on National Parks that was called am