I think he would agree that the Endangered Species Act can--and must be--improved.

This will have profound impacts on the habitat and on our ability to continue to produce timber in the Black Hills.

What is my answer to the people when I go back to western Oklahoma and they say, how much longer is it going to be until we do something with this vast, this growing beetle?

I think sometimes people try to say that conservatives or Republicans are not concerned about a species.

The Endangered Species Act has gone from a well-intentioned piece of legislation in the 1970s to one that is dictated by environmental activist groups taking advantage of the adversarial system.

I believe much more progress could have been made if the Fish and Wildlife Service had taken the funds it is using the list the northern long-eared bat and use those funds for research and other tools to diminish the effects of the white…

We all know that Congress stepped in and took control of another ESA listing by removing the northern Rockies gray wolf off the ESA list because the Fish and Wildlife Service was too timid to do it.

I hope people keep in mind that Republicans and Democrats are both very sensitive to this beautiful world that we have and the environment that we live in.

The mission, though, originally, and you probably have done a lot of study on this, all the way back to 1970, was to list, but also to delist if you are successful.

Why is it that we are spending all this time on listing and not delisting?

it doesn't matter who we talk to in the rural areas. It can be farmers who are concerned about, can they go out and plow their fields without disrupting this critter's habitat?

The Endangered Species Act must be reformed to clarify the focus and achieve real results.