Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals that endanger people and livestock.

I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.

I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.