Gale Norton Quotes (38 Quotes)

Despite such intense winds and powerful waves offshore, we experienced no loss of life or significant spills from any offshore well on the outer continental shelf,

I started out as a Democrat.

We're learning with our experience with wolves in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming how difficult it is to deal with the major predators.

improving wildland fire prevention and suppression, reducing hazardous fuels, restoring ecosystems and improving community assistance.

Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

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.

This new partnership is an example of how the public sector and private industry can work together to help provide for long-term care of these animals, while sustaining the health and productivity of America's public lands,

We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

Our approach has been to have a balanced energy policy, and today's decision indicates that balance. ... This does allow us to prevent the most immediate, most in-shore area of potential oil and gas development.

These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.

The administration has actually cut the mileage for SUVs, or reduced the amount of gasoline that those will be using in the future.

It would be difficult to tell the story of the 20th century without discussing the many contributions made by this legendary, iconic artist. It didn't take Americans and the rest of the world long to discover Elvis Presley... and it is absolutely clear that they will never forget him.

Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

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

I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

I share your commitment to protect the environment of Florida's coastline as well as the entire eastern Gulf of Mexico, ... At the same time, I must consider our nation's energy needs and appropriate management of the American public's natural resources.

The 10th Circuit's decision may change the legal background of the MOU, ... But the purpose of it was to resolve these road claims peacefully, without litigation. That's still the goal.

There are species of migratory birds that spend the winter in Asia and then in the spring they travel to Alaska and nest there.

I was a little too young to be a hippie.

And as we all know, enthusiasm is not the way landowners usually react to finding out they have endangered species on their property.

We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

As Colorado's attorney general, she allowed polluters to evade environmental fines and did little after a gold mine's cyanide leaks killed all life in a 17-mile stretch of river, ... In another case, she sat out the fight against a corporate power plant that broke air pollution laws 19,000 times.

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.

communication, consultation, and cooperation, in the name of conservation.

This great icon of the American West now has a promising future. Our grandchildren's grandchildren will see grizzly bears roaming in mountains, forests and rivers in the Yellowstone area.

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

There's more competition on the world market, which means that Americans will be paying higher prices and having even more need for energy security.

Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

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.

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.

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.

a very reasonable compromise between those who support further development ... to meet our growing energy demands and the citizens of Florida who oppose drilling in the waters off their coastline.

I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

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.

Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

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