As deeply as gold or the grizzly bear, wild salmon infuse California's past, ... But through our collective will, today we help ensure that salmon swim on into our future. For they are not merely commodities, or emblems for a flag. Wild salmon are vital members of creation who enrich our landscapes, inspiring us through their upstream journey from sea to Sierra. |
Barry Goldwater and the Grand Canyon stand together; both unique, both monumental, both among the very best of God's creation. And I believe Barry Morris Goldwater will be remembered as long as each morning the sun continues to rise over the Grand Canyon, |
Campaign contributions should have nothing to do with a decision like this and they didn't. A personal relationship with the secretary of the Interior should have nothing to do with a decision like this and it didn't, |
Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau has gone to the Silent World this Wednesday, June 25, 1997 |
change the entire culture of prescribed fire and to make sure that it doesn't happen again. |
Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America. |
Cities in the Wilderness. |
Efforts to obscure the truth will not and cannot change the facts, |
Every successful prescribed fire is a blow for safety in surrounding communities and for forest health. These forests are made safer by periodic fires -- a natural part of the evolution, growth and maintenance of healthy forests, |
Had those calculations been properly done there would have been a larger background personnel and support, ... With those mistakes embedded in it, the process began with the (Forest Service) agency and participants behind the curve. |
I think it represents a spirit of hope for California to find a better balance between agriculture, recreation and the environment, |
I think what he will be remembered for most in history is the way he connected with regular people and brought the mystery and beauty of oceans into our personal lives, |
I'm a student of conservation history and what I see are cycles, ... The trend over time has been a broader level of conservation and concern. But there are peaks and valleys. We had tremendous environmental activism under Theodore Roosevelt, then went through a drought in the '20s. We had another resurgence in conservation interest in the '30s, hit a lull in the '50s, then had a highly active period in the '60s and '70s. We're in one of those down periods again, but I'm as certain as I can be that we're getting to the end of this period and headed toward a new era of conservation and concern. |
If that's not a national problem, what is? ... And all we get from our national leaders is silence and evasion. |
In recent years the Forest Service and land management agencies have been burning about 2 to 2 1/2 million acres a year with prescribed fires, |