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We appreciate you coming and offering your testimony here today for the committee.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

There needs to be adequate funding for native communities, schools.

We urge the Subcommittee to work with the agency to ensure that the plans are improved.

Thank you all for what you do, and could you make an announcement so that I know when those commercials are going to come on.

I am always thoughtful.

We only did that for Montana and Idaho. Wyoming wanted us to do it for Wyoming, but Wyoming didn't have an approved state management plan.

I fear that we can make science for whatever outcome we want, and we shouldn't do that.

But I can remember testimony one day in the state legislature. A wolf expert, and this is why the science always gets me, and that is why I am a little subject to, you know, skepticism about the science.

I tell you how much of a wolf advocate I was. When I first came here, I had a piece of legislations called PAW, called Protect American Wolves.

There has to be some management. That is all we are asking for, and believe me the state will do a good job of management.

There are some groups. There are some organizations that I don't care if there were a million wolves in Idaho, they would not want them delisted because they are going to be hunted.

And we would urge the Subcommittee simply ensure that Fish and Wildlife Service use the best available science in moving forward with any such decision making.

We really ask the Subcommittee to pay attention to that respectfully.

We are also opposed to the nearly $18 million cut proposed for Forest Service R and D.

Norm told us to take care of the refuge system.

And, of course, San Diego Zoo speaks for itself. You don't have to say a heck of a lot more than that.

Thank you, and thanks for all the work you do.