We in the West refuse to be a zoo. We have to feed the citizens; they have to have jobs.
I am wondering if you have thoughts about that. You know, Director Ashe mentioned, well, that doesn't happen now.
If this is a priority, we have to put resources in it. We have to think of conservation.
I am in agreement with you on the issue of State involvement.
This is an important bipartisan reform: good for species, good for the economy, and good for the country.
If you find a species that is threatened or endangered, that should be good news.
Anything you can do to provide more opportunity for the States to play a bigger role in this I would be for.
the law could allow that if we amended the law.
we can take into consideration national security; we can take into consideration economic impacts or social impacts.
So I think the law has flexibility.
Too often, as my colleagues in the Senate have already mentioned, the ESA has been used and abused, more as a political ...