How do we judge results? (Western Divide)

How do we judge results?

Should successful management of the lands be based on following the rules and regulations, or on the results?

There is a lot of support for an approach to managing public lands that emphasizes and encourages good results for the land, the wildlife, their habitat, as well as the people that use the land, regardless of what means are employed to reach these good results.

CJ Hadley
Editor, Range Magazine

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

Thomas, Cawley, Chenoweth-Hage exchange

Defining consensus, growth of the conflict industry, and a big difference between chickens and pigs.

Wally Butler
Regional Manager, North Idaho and Rangeland Specialist, Idaho Farm Bureau

Standards become a wedge . . . breeding these conflict industries.

Thomas, Andrus exchange

Standards and guidelines are cop-outs . . . we could even talk about doing away with fees.

Thomas, Cawley exchange

Analysis paralysis, and questions about closure on the planning process.

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 and preservation are not interchangeable terms.

Jack Ward Thomas

What is forest health? Let's turn a national forest loose with no regulations.

John McCarthy
Conservation Director, Idaho Conservation League

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.