Gale Norton Quotations

Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

I was a little too young to be a hippie.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Major repairs may take months and some facilities into next year,

I look forward to visiting a national park and not holding a press conference in there. I look forward to being able to contemplate the wilderness without having reporters and their notebooks following me.

If a state wants to have offshore oil and gas activities, that is another reason for listening to states,

He is a consensus builder who spent a long career with the Bureau of Reclamation and then agreed to join my team to lead the bureau as commissioner. He will be missed.

We are actively looking at lease sales in the 181 area,

The data suggests that ongoing, intense earthquake activity has weakened the rock dome, increasing the likelihood of an eruption either in the form of more explosions or perhaps lava flow from the dome,

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,

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

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.

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 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.

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,

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.

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.

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.

It's primarily a question of how fast (processing) facilities get back on line,

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

The two hurricanes coming so close together really illustrate how much of our offshore production was affected,

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

clearly will be in the billions of dollars.

Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.

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 believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.

I started out as a Democrat.

The greater Yellowstone's population of grizzlies, a population that once was plummeting toward extinction, has now recovered,

The Greater Yellowstone population of grizzly bears, a population that was once plummeting toward extinction is now recovered, ... These bears are now no longer endangered.