Ted Kulongoski State Quotations

This administration made great promises to the states about working as partners when it comes to managing and protecting our national forestlands - however its action has yet to match its rhetoric.

When the 2005 Rule was announced, I made it clear that the federal governments actions placed an unfair and unnecessary burden on states that would amount to a price tag of millions of dollars and result in piecemeal management of federal forest land.

This is a state crisis, and we have to do something about it,

If we're going to compete with Canada and states from Louisiana to New Mexico, and hold on to our crews and the infrastructure of this industry here in Oregon, we had to invest,