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.
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The creation of the Grand Staircase was a major chapter in the history of our public lands, ... As time goes on, more and more residents of Utah will come to see it as a great benefit for the entire state.
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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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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 of saying to him, you know, this is really important.
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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.
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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.
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