"This is the beginning of a dialogue. We are now 15, 16 years into this 21st century and have a long way to go to absorb and understand the scientific growth that you understand and how to use it for the betterment of the land and water resources that you have discussed today."
"How do two different agencies who are overseeing endangered species act in contradiction to each other?"
"I got to go to Fresno to a hearing on the Delta smelt, and I got to see the dried up almond trees, the dead pistachio trees."
"And so will they have links or ways to plus into your product so people can have access to their product?"
"Local and State travel and tourism officials tell us they have had difficulty working with Recreation.gov, and that is a big part of Wyoming's economy."
"Will there be any type of gap between when Active Network's contract ends and when the Booz Allen provided service comes online?"
"we want, as recreation is accessed online, to make it as easy as possible for people to use public lands."
"I understand. I have been in your shoes."
"What sort of off-the-shelf products or existing technologies were part of the RFP process that you chose against because they didn't have features that you were looking for?"
"So you have information that is tremendously valuable to visitors to our public lands."
"I am very troubled by this notion of diminishing the role of counties, that somehow county boundaries do not matter or somehow hinder landscape-scale planning."