12/11/2018
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"We love grizzly bears in Montana. Their populations are expanding, since they have been listed."
"I think we have listed over 2,000 species, and recovery of around 1 percent. So how can we say that is the strongest environmental legislation in the country, with, frankly, some pretty poor results?"
"My experience, too, as a fifth-generation Montanan, is the ESA is about listing species more so than it is actually about recovery."
"It is rare we see much bipartisan agreement in this town."