Budget and Spending

Experience and Expertise Budget and Spending  “No money… no mission.”  It doesn’t matter what a plan says if there is not enough behind it. Short budgets – and bloated ones – more frequently hold up progress or waste opportunities...

Water and Wetlands

Experience and Expertise Water and Wetlands  Water is needed nearly everywhere, and there is a lot going on to keep it between too much and not enough. Droughts and floods are damaging or deadly.  The trickle-down of watersheds through streams, lakes, and groundwater...

Private Lands

Experience and Expertise Private Lands  Private lands are the biggest segment of land in the country. To landowners, each parcel is a home, a family legacy, or an asset for making a living, or all of these. Intended or not, private lands are an enormous and valuable...

Endangered Species Act

Experience and Expertise Endangered Species Act  Extinction is forever and saving species from that risk is taking quite a bit of time as well. We have a backstop against extinction in place – the Endangered Species Act – which is focused on regulating and...

Public Lands

Experience and Expertise Public Lands  Public lands are a bounty of opportunity, but they cannot give everyone what they want in every place. Competition is intense for where the mining, drilling, hunting, biking, timber harvesting, paddling, wind farming, etc. should...