So, we are not harming tourism. In fact, we are protecting tourism. But, at the same time, we are opening up the rest of this acreage to actual productive use.

I wonder when the Constitution grants to Congress the sole prerogative over the management of the public lands for the Congress then to cede such authority to the executive, I think is questionable constitutionally.

In 1996, President Bill Clinton, in a breathtaking abuse of this law, unilaterally declared 1.7 million acres of Bureau of Land Management (BLM) lands in southern Utah as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument without any…

But we are also opening up vast acreage that has been set off limits for the enjoyment of the American people, and for the prosperity of the regional economy.

Once again, we are not harming tourism with that bill, in fact, we are enhancing tourism.

This bill seeks to right this wrong and to go about monument designation the constitutional way: through open hearings, debate, and congressional action.

The Antiquities Act of 1906 provides the President with the authority to designate national monuments on Federal lands containing 'historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, or other objects of historic or scientific…

Senator John Barrasso and Representative Tom McClintock have proposed bills to facilitate permitting of new water storage projects.

Or maybe just leave the hatchery and the dam that supports it alone.

Is that typical of the hurdles that water projects now have to go through?

What is your organization's position on salmon hatcheries? Do you think we need more of them, or not?

What do you suspect the West is going to look like in 20 years if no new water projects are built or expanded?