I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
From Gale Norton
What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.
We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.
The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.
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.
Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.
Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
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