45 ordspråk av Bruce Babbitt
Bruce Babbitt
The proposed state non-game wildlife grants mark a real first in national conservation history, ... Never before has Washington offered a dedicated source of federal funding to the states for them to tailor programs benefiting all wildlife.
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The study process was able to point us toward a balance, based on good science and broad consultation, ... Whenever a balance is struck there are going to be those who will be displeased.
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the tens of millions of dollars.
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There has always been opposition to these types of things. When Theodore Roosevelt declared the Grand Canyon as a national monument [it later was made a national park], my family was among the objectors. Now everybody claims on behalf of their ancestors that they encouraged it. These are places of enormous and enduring value.
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There was an avalanche of accumulating mistakes,
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This is not about turning people away from the park, ... The problem is not that there's too many people. The problem is there's too many cars.
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This is sacred ground, ... Americans come here to learn of their past . . . their heritage. It is our obligation . . . to honor this sacred landscape by preserving it.
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This process has gone from distasteful to obscene,
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We have no choice but to manage these forests to get the fuel loads down. We can't abandon this program. What we've got to do instead is to correct the mistakes,
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we're pushing 5 million acres.
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We've got to do something to make these folks whole,
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With those mistakes embedded in it, the process began with the agency and participants behind the curve.
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within the next several days -- hopefully during the coming week.
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You can't spawn your way over a concrete dam,
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You fought the good fight. You were in it right up to the beginning.
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