12/01/2011
https://congress.gov...
"Congress has tasked the Forest Service with a difficult balancing act."
"They are not ill informed, nor are they developed in secret."
"Water rights are a sacred issue in the West, and any attempt to upset the balance of state water law and primacy is something that will be taken very seriously by this Congress."
"I find it difficult to see how viability is narrowed when you expand it from vertebrate species to all species."