Don Young: “We should consider the people directly affected by the legislation, not people who live hundreds of miles away.”

I would welcome the opportunity to discuss Willow with you at any time, and further to facilitate your meeting with the groups above to hear from them directly.

The Endangered Species Act, we should celebrate when these species get to the numbers that we need, so we can have Minnesota manage these wolves.

It was sponsored by Congressman Debbie Dingell and initially by Congressman Don Young.

When the tribe asked Congressman Don Young to cosponsor the bill years ago, he looked me in the eye and said, so the landowners get resolved, the tribe still has to prove its case, are you sure that is what you want? I said, yes, sir, it…