"We have historic levels of rain, and the other years we have hardships of drought."
"We are literally creating a dustbowl with some of these practices."
"I hope this is on your radar, on your personal radar."
"When you go to the level of criminalizing farming practices, your requirement to define what is a violation of the Clean Water Act and what is a criminal offense to the Clean Water Act is very, very i..."
"I am from an area in California where we have a number of endangered species, single species management schemes impacting our rural residents and farmers and landscapes."
"How do we convince ourselves in rural America that humans aren't species number 17,001 when it comes to prioritization and welfare?"
"Spotted owl protection in the Sierra Nevada forests have limited sustainable logging there for decades now."
"These are the Lords of Scarcity pushing working families up against the edge of privation, right where they want you."
"I am a farmer who is prosecuted with threats of criminal penalties for planting wheat in a wheat field under the 2008 WOTUS rule."
"We can get better yield off the dams we have by focusing on a multi-faceted endangered species approach, versus just washing water out through the delta each year."
"They are paying for 90 percent of their water at a rate of about $250 an acre-foot, and actually getting 5, 10 percent of what they are paying for."