What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.
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.
We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.
I started out as a Democrat.
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.
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.
In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.
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.
I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.
I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.
Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.
I was a little too young to be a hippie.
Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.
