12 Quotes by Michael Bean

We're getting everything from spare change to 20-dollar bills.

We have quantitative data on several species and each example shows that a species can make significant progress. But that progress is measured in decades. All of the species (in the report) are still on the list and are likely to remain on the list for many decades to come.

I would be skeptical of any contention that 'cooperative conservation' is the only tool needed. I think they want to emphasize that and de-emphasize the regulations.

We've been training for the past three days. These guys are efficient, strong and ready to help people,

Either he's trying to hide the ball - hide what his bill is going to do - or he doesn't know what his bill is going to do.

The threat to the act is more substantial and more real than it has been in along time.

Any landowner who didn't want to pay a fee into the mitigation fund could opt out of the HCP and say to the Fish and Wildlife Service, I'm planning to develop 500 homes,

Any deal that might be reached could come undone in conference.

The report argues that the (low) figure is not the best measure of success or failure of the act to this point. Many endangered species are making steady progress toward recovery under the Endangered Species Act.