05/14/2009
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"I appreciate you want to improve resource stewardship by getting bureaus to focus on regional landscapes and to work across Federal, State, and local lines."
"I do not support the administration's efforts to move full-steam ahead on the plan to drill in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge."
"I would also point out that we have an example of where the bureaus were able to do that already, the regional sage-grouse plans at your Department, and your Department is now in the process of scrapp..."
"Well, I think the reality is that, State flexibility, it ends up that we end up deteriorating the habitat for the sage-grouse."