Steven Daines actually said...

"The ESA has become a listing tool that restricts activities and not a management tool for the recovery of species."

"When the actions of these groups and those in our government agencies create the very problems we are seeing today, I find this dishonest and unacceptable."

"The spotted owl is a great example of how the ESA wrongly destroyed an industry and people's lives."

"It seems like our Federal Government then blames humans as a primary cause versus looking at some of these naturally occurring processes in this very complex ecosystem."