Daniel Patterson Quotations

We might end up having to take it right into the courts.

Without a listing it really just gets lip service.

Were very surprised, ... certainly a proposal to end protection for a species so endangered like the Owl, is reckless, immoral, and it doesnt reflect the truth in any way.

Perfect food is born of perfect order.

Without protection of the endangered species act we would have lost hundreds of additional species including the owls and those are all related to our quality of life.

The burden to show that this is necessary falls on the government. There was no transparency. This is disturbing.

This decision is about as strong as it gets and confirms all of our concerns about the dunes environment.

They might have a point if they were being squeezed into small areas, but they're not. They still have more than 100 square miles.

You can't just go out and plow lizard habitat into the ground.

It's a stall tactic coming out of hostile politics in Washington.

It's anti-science, it's anti-conservation and it's anti-public interest.

It's very highly endangered, in the Coachella Valley especially. The next step, hopefully, is that the government will stop delaying and do the right thing for the lizard.

It's never an easy call to kill a sheep like that, ... but in this current situation, that's been one of the needs, to get fresh samples.

This is a huge win for wildlife and people who care about the dunes. The court wisely told the Bureau of Land Management to wake up, follow the law and treat the dunes with some respect.