When you guys have a tough economic recession on the East Coast or on the West Coast, often it is the middle of the country that stabilizes this country.

It aids in the fight against wildfire, and that is because we have been able to go around the Federal Government.

If we aren't able to treat invasive species on our Federal estate, there is a grass called cheatgrass, there is another one called Japanese brome.

I would say for most ranchers, it is not a business model, it is their family legacy.

It will shut down economic activity in these regions of the country.

It takes decisions we make regarding our wildlife and how we operate away from us, and gives it to the Federal Government. It is about control.

What is interesting to me is that, if you read the rule and the analysis the BLM has put out on the rule, it is that they have done no economic evaluation.

In a heartbeat. We would beat them every day of the week.

My family has lived off the land for generations. I was raised by a dad who often reminded me, 'Don't sell land, Kristi. God isn't making any more land.'

Our enemies and those who hate the United States of America may never need to fire a shot to take us over.

What they are doing in this rule is putting conservation efforts, based on no definition of what those conservation efforts are or what they should be, and placing them above every other use.

to go forward with a proposed rule like this and say that what we are doing today isn't working, and ignoring what is happening on the ground, I think, is extremely arrogant, perhaps naive.

This proposed rule absolutely allows them to look at large landscapes and to shut the public out from accessing it.

it lacks any scientific data or analysis that what we are doing today is not providing conservation.

This rule is just one of many which highlights an example of an overreaching, unelected bureaucracy attempting to perpetuate radical environmental policies.

There will be business owners, small businesses in my state that will be bankrupt if this proposed rule goes into place.

We do. But I would say the Black Hills National Forest is known as one of the best-managed forests in our country.

One thing that really frustrates me about the current Administration is that they will be deceptive when they say a rule is proposed for one reason, when their real objective is another reason.

If the Federal Government, the bureaucracy in the Federal Government is truly concerned about conservation, then let the people who know how to do conservation actually do conservation.

Congress has no authority to do this. You are overstepping your authority.

What is to prevent China from coming in and purchasing up conservation leases on our Federal lands?

It is an important discussion that everyone has with their bank, or whoever is financing them on what their operating note needs to be.

When a country controls our food supply and our energy supply, they will control us, and American freedom will be gone.

They openly say that there will be public input, yet do not conduct and follow through on that.

As a governor you need to get things done, and accomplished, and do what is best for people. And we work on a bipartisan basis every single day.