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Original publisher: Washington : U.S. G.P.O., 2011. LC Number: KF26 .E55 2011e OCLC Number: (OCoLC)740739476 Subject: Droughts -- New Mexico. Excerpt: ... 11 ment, authorization and partial funding of the Navajo Nation, Aamodt and Taos In-dian water rights settlements are major elements of that progress. I would be remiss if I did not take this opportunity to thank Senator Bingaman for his continued assistance in helping to improve the state and its water users ' ability to manage water resources both in times of drought and in times of plenty. That assistance has come in the form of funding to the federal water management agencies, support for endangered species programs and, most recently, in the Sen-ator's heroic efforts to secure federal authorizing legislation and direct funding for the Indian water rights settlements. Thank you. The C. Thank you very much. Corbin Newman, you're HAIRMAN our final witness on this panel. We appreciate you being here as our Regional Forester. Go ahead. STATEMENT OF CORBIN L. NEWMAN, JR., REGIONAL FOR-ESTER, SOUTHWESTERN REGION, FOREST SERVICE, DE-PARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE EWMAN Mr. N. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you for bringing us together on this really important topic, one that's become all too common here in the Southwest and particularly in New Mexico. For me the most obvious and outward appearance of drought is forest fires, it's grass fires, it's woodland fires. I want to talk about those. But first I would like to highlight some of the connections that probably are more important in the long term that we look at. When we talk about drought, we think about it in sort of 3 phases. The idea that you've got a panel here on climate change I think is critically important, because we think about drought today and how it affects our management that we need to carry on in our national forests particularly in fire. We think about the persistence of drought, how long has it been around. You know, decades-old changes in many, m
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Drought and climate change on water resources: hearing before the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, United States Senate
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