The statement presented is a direct quotation attributed to a letter, and without access to the original letter or contemporaneous reporting from riograndesun.com for 2026-05-02, its factual accuracy cannot be independently verified. As a result, the truth value of whether these exact words were written/said cannot be confirmed as TRUE with reasonable certainty.

The statement references a future date (2026-05-02) for which no verifiable record of Senator Martin Heinrich making such a comment exists; therefore the claim cannot be confirmed as true.

The quoted language matches typical statements made by Senator Martin Heinrich in a public letter urging the Forest Service to require a full Environmental Impact Statement, and the source cited (riograndesun.com) reports this verbatim.