"My perception is that there is more to get and that we haven't gotten all there is to gain there."
"I wouldn't want grizzly bears in the Sierra Nevada, but I am afraid they are coming to a forest near me soon."
"I personally have seen some technologies come out of the Los Alamos Laboratory on peptide research that have huge implications for plant health."
"Somebody from far away outside our base and outside our community, outside our state, outside our country could play the water market through political or environmental manipulations."
"I think that commodities are commodities. They move around the globe and they fill voids and shortages through a free market system that you folks help facilitate. But water is not a commodity."
"Since the 1990s and the biological opinions and the lawsuits that ensued afterwards, and the removal of water from area to save the Delta smelt, the salmon from the Delta, we have depleted groundwater..."
"We have sacrificed a lot for the Delta smelt and the salmon through single species management schemes that I hope have delivered tremendous results for all the species or the salmon, the smelt, but ma..."
"I have hospitals going bankrupt. The property tax revenue in this district is eviscerating, evaporating."
"I think we have been smoked out and had some level of smoke damage or another on our wine grapes."
"Well, like we say up north, just leave your next of kin so we know who to notify."
"Usually you'll get couple of people that, you know, they haven't been through a hurricane before, don't know what it's like, and say, Well, I'll stay in my home. Well, like we say up north, just leave..."