John Salazar: “I will not tolerate the kind of improper actions highlighted in the Inspector General's findings.”

I will take whatever steps are necessary, and within the scope of my authority, to redress improper decision-making regarding endangered species determinations.

We need proactive forest management to restore our forests to a more healthy condition and reduce the threat to communities from raging wildfire.

This combination of perspectives--sensible energy production and other resource development with a sharp eye on the need to protect more enduring values and resources--hopefully will return our national public lands management to the true…

It is very difficult to justify diverting even more resources to manage paperwork for a permit that is duplicative of other regulatory programs and has no appreciable environmental benefits.