It’s going to be a long tough summer, … There’s no relief in sight. We’ve got September and October to go.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.

In the spirit of the Christmas season I’m delivering a gift to the mining industry,

There was an avalanche of accumulating mistakes,

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,

Obviously I wouldn’t have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It’s been a marvelous and important experience.

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.

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.

Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America.

Mistakes were made, … You don’t prosecute people for making mistakes.

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...

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know… I think the President has a land protection record that’s second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy...

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...

Well, it’s not a pleasant experience. And it’s a terribly political process, because that thing was initiated by the Congress and by, you know, our adversaries in the Congress.

Lessons must be learned from this.

That book really awakened people to what was going on,

You fought the good fight. You were in it right up to the beginning.

The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

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...

Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an...

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...

The notion that big business and big labor and big government can sit down around a table somewhere and work out the direction of the American economy is at complete variance with the reality of...

It’s a hopeful message that we have found ways to live in balance with God’s creation and with all the nature around us,

There’s a basic kind of tension here. It’s between those who say, I’d like to clear cut this forest and reduce it to saw timber because that’s an economically productive thing for me to do.

change the entire culture of prescribed fire and to make sure that it doesn’t happen again.

we’re pushing 5 million acres.

What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I’m going to get out of this town and I’m going to go out West.

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...

I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.

Mistakes began with the preparation of the prescribed fire plan, … Had those calculations been properly done, there would have been a larger background personnel and support (team on hand).

They haul you up there for, you know, week after week in this kind of star chamber proceeding. Then at the end of it they say, well, we found nothing, but now it’s time for...

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,

The creation of the Grand Staircase was a major chapter in the history of our public lands,

What we’ve proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

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.

I look back on it, yeah, I’m in a much worse financial position than I was eight years ago. I’m going to have to go out at age 62 and kind of readdress some of...

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...

This isn’t just about today, this about generations to come. And you’ve got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he’s done it.

The causal chain of this fire is quite complex, … I would liken it to what happens on a mountainside when a rock is dislodged, starts rolling down a hill, pretty soon there are more...

Cities in the Wilderness.

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 think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of...

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.

We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind...

The entitlement for more than 100 years has been rock-bottom grazing fees,

You can’t spawn your way over a concrete dam,

Efforts to obscure the truth will not and cannot change the facts,

I wouldn’t miss this opportunity for anything. For the chance to work on these conservation issues, to serve my country, to work for this president, I’d do it all over again, every single minute.

It’s clear that there were large mistakes of agency oversight. Lessons must be learned from this.

We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital… with God’s creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.