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Preservation vs. Conservation

Owyhee lands

Should we assume that not using the lands is the best thing for the lands?

Often the debate on managing and using public lands gets framed as a question, should the lands be used at all, or preserved as they are? But conservation may mean something completely different from simple preservation.

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CJ Hadley
Editor, Range Magazine

  • Cattle are not the problem, it is management that is the problem.
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Dan Dagget
Environmentalist with EcoResults! and author of Beyond the Rangeland Conflict

  • How can we change this from this false choice, either/or, to make this really about the land, and the health of the land?
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Dave Rittenhouse
Supervisor, USFS

  • These are not new issues, they're not new conflicts, we don't seem to [be able to] do anything to change it.
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Gregg Cawley

  • Conservation is not the same as preservation.
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John McCarthy
Conservation Director, Idaho Conservation League, Boise, ID

  • There are a lot of things that can be done to improve situations for communities, for wildlife, for water quality, but I say these things come with a price tag.
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Gregg Cawley

  • 'Improvement' and 'destruction' are qualitative, value-based terms.
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Jack Ward Thomas

  • Should we rethink how we are using Yellowstone Park?
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Mark Pollot
Attorney

  • At what point do we say, "You have to share!"
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