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.

CJ Hadley
Editor, Range Magazine

• Cattle are not the problem, it is management that is the problem.
  
  

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?
  
  

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.
  
  

Gregg Cawley

• Conservation is not the same as preservation.
  
  
  

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.
  
  

Gregg Cawley

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

Jack Ward Thomas

• Should we rethink how we are using Yellowstone Park?
  
  

Mark Pollot
Attorney

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