Kieran Suckling Quotes (13 Quotes)

If it's voluntary, there are no teeth, no limits. If someone wants to protect habitat, we're all for that. But why choose one or the other

The Forest Service has a theory that goshawks need forest openings to catch prey. Therefore they encourage mini clear cuts throughout the forest to provide openings.

I'd go to a timber sale before it was cut and walk around, then I'd go back and see what happened to the beautiful forest, and it was completely trashed. All the big trees were cut and the ground was ripped up by tractors. It looked like a war zone.

When logging was reduced in the Pacific Northwest to protect the spotted owl, it shifted timber harvesting over to goshawk habitat. If we protect the goshawk as much as the spotted owl, there will be nowhere left for the timber industry to go. That is why they see the goshawk as a final battleground.

Species on the candidates list are allowed to languish for decades without protection. This is an agency policy used to prevent people from filing listing petitions.

This bill takes a wrecking ball to our nation's most important wildlife protection law. The Endangered Species Act is the safety net for America's imperiled plants and animals. The Republican dominated House of Representatives have ripped it apart, consigning God's creation to extinction.

Illegal logging is driving dozens of birds and mammals to extinction. American corporations have the power to stop illegal logging by refusing to buy the wood instead they are encouraging it. Shame on them.

She really exemplified the revolving door between the Republicans, industry groups and anti-environmental groups. I expect that government scientists and decision-makers are clapping their hands under their desks.

Pombo played a cynical game of bait-and-switch. He brought people in with false promises, announced the support of environmental groups to the nation, and then systematically stripped every protection clause from his bill.

The Endangered Species Act has been remarkably successful. Humpback whales, bald eagles, (and) brown pelicans ... are just a few of the species that are recovering quite nicely.

The Fish and Wildlife Service has been sued over the candidates list repeatedly. You can't name a species that has been listed without a court order over the last 10 years, unless it was an obscure endemic species with no political impact.

At a time when deformed frogs are being found in lakes and rivers across the nation, it is a dangerous travesty to exempt pesticides from environmental review.

Pombo's bill would rip the heart out of the Endangered Species Act. It would leave the act in tatters.