Pastoral Resources

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

We must have a relentless commitment to producing a meaningful, comprehensive energy package aimed at conservation, alleviating the burden of energy prices on consumers, decreasing our country's dependency on foreign oil, and increasing electricity grid reliability.

In addition, each barrel of oil we save through conservation further decreases our dangerous reliance on unstable Middle East oil.

We need a number of solutions - we need more efficiency and conservation. Efficiency is a big one. I think car companies need to do a lot better in producing more efficient cars. They have the technology, we just need to demand them as consumers.

Here are the facts we confront. No one is against conservation. No one is against alternative fuel sources.

I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment.

Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent.

So, my tactic with conservation of apex predators is to get people excited and take them to where they live.

Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve.

Last year, I co-sponsored the Highlands Conservation Act and in a bipartisan effort we passed the bill through Congress.

We have increased conservation spending, enacted legislation that enables us to clean up and redevelop abandoned brownfields sites across the country, and implemented new clean water standards that will protect us from arsenic.

This is the way federal land management should work. Cooperation, not confrontation, should be the hallmark of conservation efforts.

In addition, the oil royalties the Federal Government does not collect from big oil will starve the Land and Water Conservation Fund of critical financial resources.

Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.

Conservation is a state of harmony between men and land.

By encouraging conservation, increasing investments in clean, renewable sources of energy, and promoting increased domestic production of oil and gas, we can build a more secure future for our country.

The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

After 16 months of teaching, consulting, fellowship, and special project activities on matters ranging from conservation to healthcare to international trade, Gov. Ventura appointed me to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of a conservation ethic in our culture.

The university's business is the conservation of useless knowledge; and what the university itself apparently fails to see is that this enterprise is not only noble but indispensable as well, that society can not exist unless it goes on.