What the proposed regulation under this Administration does, and I think sometimes it has been mischaracterized, is it finds that very reasoned and steady attempt to have a durable solution to critical habitat designation going forward.
Westerman defends the administration's regulation on critical habitat designation.
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I am concerned that we are getting behind, and we are allowing people who don't have our best interests at heart to develop these standards, where the US has generally been a leader in standards development around the world.
If you start with bad data, you are going to get bad results, no matter how well you do in between.
So, I would hope that we would take another look at roads and access on the forests, and use some common sense there.
And I do want to make a clarification here. The idea of valuing our natural assets I don't think is a bad idea, and I think the US is probably behind in that, in creating standards.
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