[Congressional Record Volume 158, Number 155 (Wednesday, December 5, 2012)]
[House]
[Page H6663]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
FOREST SERVICE IN TOMBSTONE, ARIZONA
(Mr. SCHWEIKERT asked and was given permission to address the House
for 1 minute.)
Mr. SCHWEIKERT. How many of us have heard of a little town called
Tombstone? It's popped up in movies, American folklore. Guess what? The
Forest Service seems hell-bent on ending its existence. This town is
older than my State. Its water rights are older than my State. Yet the
Forest Service is restricting the town from 87 percent of its water
supply because there's Forest Service land around Tombstone.
This picture isn't a picture of a bunch of cowboys out having fun.
They're not allowed to take a little Bobcat up the mountainside to get
the springs to fix their water, so you have to go up by hand up a
mountainside to remove the boulders.
Is there an adult in the Forest Service who has a lick of sense?
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