Wayne Gilchrest

if there is anybody in the Chamber who was born in 1946, they are now the quintessential baby boomer. They are 50. That means in 15 years or a little bit less or a little bit more, they are going to retire. If we do not reform what we are…

There have been some significant changes that I think have gone in the right direction. The Breeding Bird Survey I think takes up about half of the volunteers in this country. To allow a willing property owner to have species studied on…

I would really like once again to reiterate some points. First of all, this is a Republican amendment, I would just like to make that point. I am a Republican. We are all working together here. First of all, Mr. Chairman, no one wants to…

Mr. Chairman, I think everyone in this room knows what HIV is, and that it leads to AIDS. HIV is human immunodeficiency virus. It has just been discovered by a gentleman from Maryland that cats, cats in the wild, have FIV, that is feline…

we want to ensure that no one is going to go on private land. We realize, and I have lived in the West, the difficulty sometimes of knowing what is private land and what is public land. That is why we wanted these volunteers to be very…

I want to make a comment about volunteers that would come under the jurisdiction of USGS as far as collecting data on species. In Maine and Maryland, recently volunteers are the ones who collected the data that was used by the National…

That is a very good recommendation, and it is whether or not to eat the chicken eggs, or to hatch the chicken eggs, I guess. The question is collecting biological data, the health of the country, using well-trained volunteers. I urge my…

I worked within a designated wilderness area in the Bitterroot Mountains of northern Idaho.

First of all, the Federal regulators should be on the farm and talk about possom hunting, then have a cup of coffee and a piece of pie, and the Federal regulators ought to be good neighbors and talk about how we can solve some of these…

it may be done in places like Ohio, but it is not being done across the Nation. If we are looking at watershed ideas and keeping water going from one State to another State and raising the awareness of nonpoint source problems, especially…

The scientists recommended we go on a region-by-region basis. Your bill does not do that.

Late in the 1500's we all remember Galileo, and he said at that time he was trying to educate people that the sun was the center of the solar system. Well the Pope heard that, Pope Urban VIII, the head of the early Roman Empire, and he…

As the greatest legislative body in the world, which is the U.S. Congress, I think we should use the best scientific evidence available to determine the delineation criteria for a wetland, which is not the case in this bill now, and once…

I would like to make one other comment on the compensation criteria, which people say is absent in this bill. We already passed a law to compensate landowners for wetlands and for the Endangered Species Act, so putting it into the Clean…

One comment about the Constitutional Convention, you know, over 200 years ago, the reason the Constitutional Convention came about was because there was a dispute between Maryland and Virginia dealing with the Potomac River because it went…

I rise to voice opposition to the Coast Guard's current fee schedule that took effect on May 1, 1995. This user fee schedule is overly burdensome to small operators. The final rule states that as of May 1, 1995, all inspected commercial…

Mr. Speaker, the concurrent resolution before us would authorize the 1995 Special Olympics Torch Relay to be run through the Capitol Grounds on May 19, 1995, as part of the journey of the special olympics torch to the Special Olympics…

as we take up the debate over the reauthorization of the Environmental Protection Act, we hear claims there is no need to preserve less well-known, often unglamorous species. It is easy to call for preservation of charismatic species like…

Dr. Norse, chief scientist for the Center for Marine Conservation, reminds us that biodiversity and ecosystems do such things as maintaining climate, removing pollutants from the atmosphere, building soils to sustain the agricultural…

I cannot help but comment on the remarks of gentleman from Arizona when he says we should put people first. I thank all of us agree with that. It is just how we do that which is important. Ignoring certain aspects, like clean water or…

Reclaiming my time, the way you do that is through scientific discovery of the strata, of the biology of things, through research, through archaeology, through anthropology, through scientific techniques that can evaluate what species…

Biodiversity means all of the species on this planet that have evolved over millions of years that have created, literally, life on the planet. We have air because of living organisms on this planet. We have purifying techniques in life…

I said that before there was human impact on biodiversity and ecosystems, there was one species for every million species on average, for every million species, you would have one species becoming extinct every year. That was before the…

No; I would not say it is the responsibility of the Federal Government to control all the ecosystems and I am not sure how much time I have, Mr. Chairman, but property owners, local government, people in general need to cooperate with each…

Reclaiming my time, the study you are talking about, there have been studies in the rain forests of Latin America, there have been studies in Indonesia, there have been studies all over the world, including the United States. The average…