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! <br />Robert K Weidner <br />Euergreen Forest Countg Group <br />24 Riuer Road <br />Gettgsburg, PA 17325 <br />703-898-6603 <br />rkw57@nac.com <br />September 27, 2O25 <br />i lVEb:'RECE <br />sEP 2 6 2025 <br />KTTITAS CC}IJNTY <br />BOARD OF L:*&tr,q g$$tsF; EtTllDear Commissioner <br />This past year has seen a great transition from a hostile Biden Administration <br />to an energetic and supportive Trump Administration in terms of natural <br />resources, environmental and public lands policies. <br />From National Forest management, livestock grazing, mining, oil, gas and all <br />forms of energr development, the enthusiasm for sound development is <br />unprecedented. Working closely with the Uranium Producers of America to <br />promote domestic mining, I see the Administration's efforts to open up federal <br />laads and to reform onerous environmental regulations, including NEPA, to be <br />very encouraging not only for mining but for re-opening our National Forests to <br />sound active management. The repeal of the Clinton-era Roadless rule is but <br />one significant policy change which will encourage economic growth in <br />Washington state and in National Forests covering some 59 million acres. <br />In the midst of all this I have been fortunate to be able to form a personal <br />relationship with David Copley, Deputy National Security Advisor and Director <br />of the President's Energr Dominance Council. Together, we are working to <br />rework or eliminate Clinton, Obama and Biden Antiquities Act abuses in the <br />form of the Grand Staircase Escalante, Bears Ears, the Baaj Nwaavjo I'tah <br />Kukveni Grand Canyon National Monuments and others...all of which <br />harmfully impact the economies of the rural west as well as impacting the <br />national security of this nation. <br />Additionally, I am working closely with Karen Budd-Falen who serves as <br />Associate Deputy Secretary of the Interior and Adam Suess, a former Sinclair <br />Oil executive who serves in a key position for the public lands west as the <br />Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management at the <br />Department of the Interior. <br />I have opened up a solid relationship with Ned Mamula, who awaits Senate <br />Confirmation as President Trump's Director of the U.S. Geological Survey <br />(USGS). Ned is advising the Trump White House to make the boundary