Were not going to count to see these things that you care about. What can i give you a free ride, a little time to figure out. I have one item to jonathans list of policies that have been conflictual, socialist invention of the subtle dimension in its rate to were, which is huge in a lot of ways and i think to be seen to things over the coming years of american federalism. One is distasteful split on more and more of these issues along sectional lines and second, among the states and the federal government that will become more conflictual and i believe thats all to the good. Will receive complete hodgepodge of coalitions on different issues . Are we seeing a different pattern quick no, i havent followed the mayor wanted name, but if you look at labor, the environment playing out that way, a variety of social and cultural issues is always, importantly health care you mentioned is always the same coalition for certain stability there and a huge overlap and thats a terrific thing. Is this interesting paper we see as part of the larger process of reallocation between state and federal government. How much leeway to see up on that administration have . I dont find very that would be fine if you had 2 million dvd agents is better than we do have, but how much room does the lord gave you . I think what all their shows as federalism is alive and well is the real of 60 kind of wandered the concepts in our country for obvious reasons, but even that term now is coming to be embraced by newer generation of something positive because you see controversial issues as you identified the address of the state level. Thats a good thing happening here. Its easy when youre middleaged man like me to brood about. The rule of law, what are we going to do . But weve had a lot of respondents than this. Weve been through to tens of the country. Getting young people involved in the press is the greatest epidemics other places is wonderful to see it happen and im very excited about the fact more people are engaged. I think the debate is going to be much better and eventually will force congress to become relevant again, which will save us. And uplifting ipod on which to register under the constitution as a mechanism designed to force conflict between levels of government on an ongoing basis. As the founders vision retain flexibility and dynamism in a changing world. At brookings producer panels the voting process, failing and not working. Its nice to run on a note saying this is like what the founders thought they were setting up, this tugofwar. Thank you for coming. This debate is never come us to back for the next round in the round after. [applause] [inaudible conversations] back in the heyday of how the private Student Lending market, you saw a lot of families who werent necessarily was going to say a music school. I wrote an article about a gardener who sent his son to college, you know, the first in the family to go to college. The dad made about 21,000 a year family and a menace able to make six figures from a privacy lender for his son. There just is no underwriting. And the slender, by the way, you know, settled with the new York AttorneyGenerals Office because i turn off your member was called called the preferred lender list, where vendors or in some cases accused of paying for preferential treatment antisurface to your students towards avon product announced the case with the slender. You can sort of understand some of the anger and how a generation of students may rightly feel duped in some ways with very little relief at this point now that they are so far in debt. Now coming discussion of environmental policy and conservation hosted by the Conservation Leadership Council. Council members include interior secretary, gale norton antiseptics peered this is a little less than two hours. Okay, were going to get started. Id like to introduce myself. I am former deputy secretary of the u. S. Department of the interior under the Previous Administration i see many, many faces. Its wonderful to be in such a great crowd. Im delighted youre all here at this conservation and stewardship conference. This may be put on by the Leadership Council. I want to remind everybody this is an open public meeting. They are reporting the event. They are broadcasting to the website at cspan. Org. They will also be airing on television during the course that day. Id like to encourage all of you to visit the Conservation Leadership Council website after the meeting in the course of the next week. It is sleeping with conservation. Work. There youll see the members of the Leadership Council. Youll see all of the papers. And by the way, you have on the tables in front of you a booklet that has the published papers put out by the council. We will start with presentations today, but ultimately what we want will have a facilitated discussion. Im going to be phil donahue or a winfrey and get you to converse and discuss. Yes by all means if you have questions to secretary norton for secretary schaefer, please do direct from here. We will try and get a conversation. Before i could roll in, the Council Members here in the audience to stand out. Id schaeffer and gil norton at the podium, if you would just stand, i appreciate that. Thank you for your great work in the soccer. To get the show rolling, and they to introduce secretary norton. She is wellknown to many in the stern if not all of your secretary of the interior from 2001, 22,006. I assert privilege to serve. Shes now back out in colorado and has her own firm and doing other things. Im not going to give a big introduction because they think youre so well known. Welcome. [applause] good morning, everyone. Its terrific to see people here. We have many people that were initially expect team. Its wonderful to have you been wonderful to have so many friends ive known for many years in the audience today. The Conservation Leadership Council is committed to addressing the nations environmental challenges through the application of conservative principles and ideas, trying to find ways in which we can have a purchase that are comfortable for conservatives and accomplish environmental goals. The Conservation Leadership Council is a group of business executives, former government officials, Public Policy experts and Community Leaders feared we come from a variety of backgrounds, the common enthusiasm for innovative environmental solutions. Im going to provide an overview of the council, why it is needed, how it darted, what its done so far and some thing about what we hope to accomplish. Stewardship is a core and lasting american value. Getting todays dialogue about how to exercise. Some of americas strongest principles and ideas that can sustain our National Heritage and prosperity have not been considered. We believe many of the best solutions to the countrys environmental challenges will be found in marketoriented policies, Publicprivate Partnerships and bottoms up solutions. These approaches have been successfully demonstrated in many local initiatives. When i was secretary of the interior, i had the opportunity to travel around to meet with people who were involved in local conservation efforts, who brought together neighbors to discuss their problems, to hash out different perspectives and to find ways of protecting communities and environment. We called the cooperative conservation. I still think its a great title. We wanted to see that spread across the country. The Political Landscape has shipped it in the last two years. As someone who served in washington, i am familiar with gridlock and partisanship. Unfortunately, i think that is reason to massive levels today. Ironically, it is that atmosphere of distrust that help stimulate the creation of the conservation leadership will. We believe there are good ideas that can transcend politics. Compromise is an unpopular word and for todays conservatives, and has the connotation of abandoning ones principles. The Conservation Leadership Council is not about that approach. The Conservation Leadership Council looks for fresh proposals that can reach environmental goals while finding mechanisms for conservatives and libertarians can embrace. The Councils First i said that he was to solicit ideas across the country. Think tanks are in universities, people involved in the trenches and conservation projects. We sought authors who could present fresh ideas, reflect in the councils limited government approach. Instead of environmental proposals based on command and control, we saw proposals harnessing the marketplace to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation instead of Big Government regulation, would look for ways to bring communities together. Instead of racing governments and income of search for ways to save taxpayers money while still providing after recreation and environmental values. Instead of destroying jobs and economic opportunity, we sought ways to provide the regulatory certainty that encourages investment while meeting environmental goals affect lee. We received many excellent proposals and some of them are captured today in the book we are releasing. This contains several of our policy papers and these papers are also available on our website, leading with conservation. Org. The policy papers complement a series of conservation roundtables that we have held around the country. The first is highlighted on the Ground Solutions in denver, colorado, my hometown had people discussing conservation of land and ways to protect wildlife habitat. In september, another roundtable focused on habitat trading credits and economical ways to conserve public lands. That is taught in, georgia, emphasize water quantity and infrastructure necessary to preserve americas access to clean water. As time goes on, we expect to host roundtables around the country. Theyve given us the opportunity to lose him experience people with a variety of views and help improve our proposals. Todays session is going to have a similar format. The council is an organization intended to stimulate brainstorming and debate and distribution of ideas. We have a generally shared political philosophy, but we do not have any requirement that our members agree in complete box set. Accordingly, not every word of the Council Endorses every paper. We want to share a variety of ideas. While Council Members themselves are conservatives or libertarians, we welcome the opportunity to work with others and thinking how our approaches can be implemented in the real world. We have been assisted in our efforts are not a conservative friend at Environmental Defense fund and we thank them for their efforts. Several other environmental organizations are represented here today has those individuals individual chip industry, agriculture, government and conservative organizations. We welcome input from all corners. The councils role as a conservative voice for Environmental Protection is important in todays economic situation. Local and state agencies face another year of budget cuts. Fortunately, our marketplace Oriented Approach can provide help and solutions, especially important in washington as congress is grappling with ways to do with the federal budget. We want to provide a purchase that can protect the environment without major government expenditures. Let me share a simple example. I was reading a Magazine Article the other day and i thought this is a very simple and straightforward approach that everybody can understand. Local and State Governments on thousands of miles and thousands of acres, millions of acres of land in the rights of way roads. Kansas allowed has over 20,000 miles of roads that have vegetation along the sides. That provides habitat for birds and small animals. It provides wildflowers an opportunity to flourish. In most places, the approaches to go through a number of times this year and know that sounds, which destroys the habitat value. The Kansas Audubon Society calculated change in the mowing patterns to do it less often would save taxpayers millions of dollars while improving the habitat. It is a win for the environment while it saves taxpayers money. That is not one of her specific puzzles, but its the kind of idea and fresh thinking we welcome. One of our papers announced today directly addresses local and State Government problems. Many parks are operated by governments facing cutbacks or even shutdowns. There are experiences with contracting out management of park activities and our authors have traced that experience and have really put together some practical proposals for local governments and State Governments that might be looking at those kinds of things. Our proposals explore ways working within the regulatory system to allow Economic Activity by meeting environmental goals and less cumbersome ways to know if youre one of those proposed as later this morning. Other saints that receive government funding, the more encouragingly, better environmental resource to cooperative committee. I want to thank you all for participating and i look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas today. [applause] thank you, secretary norton. Not a day to introduce former governor of north dakota and secretariat the u. S. Department of agriculture, ed schafer. [applause] thank you all for joining us here today. I hope you have the chance to have breakfast. We have roles in coffee and juices and water. Feel free to get up and have some food, leave come and talk to your navel, chuckle, click your classes. As a former governor, im used to addressing the legislature. Anyways, this is from the book, ranch life and hunting trail. My home which is on the size of the little missouri. It is about 12 in the nearest below me about 10 miles distance. The general courses northerly, but while flanker may ranch, takes a great westerly beach ball then is always, half a mile away. Down to the valley and suites, leaving one side and then the other and open glade among the long low house of human blogs. From the long veranda program that comes shaded by of beefy cottonwoods, one looks across sandbars and shows to a strip, which raises a line of sheer cliffs agresti patterns. This is a price and place were having a cool breeze stirs around the river attired men. Their rocking chairs for what true americans does not enjoy rocking chair. Though they do not often read the books, the rock gently to and fro, gazing sleepily out of sharp outlines degroat and distinctive purple in the glow of the sunset. These are the words written by Cesar Roosevelt during his time. The growing realization of the ideals of conservation. It was later during his time as governor of new york, when that vision of the spots in the letter came to be. In new york, when he was dealing with a society of concrete and steel and wealth generated by trading futures that dutch tulip olds for something, he came to understand the threat to National Strengths of the land in the soil and the Natural Resources. He was worried about the character of americans. He thought the character and values instilled in people and justice in the Hard Rock Cafe and the selfsufficient that comes in the end for marking the soil. The found here produce the american character and started thinking about responsibilities of preserving the good capacity of our lands. He had started the boone and crockett club. Boone and crockett club. Buyable bair. I think hes going to be here, but i dont see him. He understood promoting good stewardship of the land was important and to promote stewardship in understanding and that i felt the only way to ensure that would be to create voluntary organizations that would see to that good stewardship. Theodore roosevelt was elected to president of the United States and became known among many things as the conservation president. It was his vision as president that jumpstarted the Preservation Movement in this country and gather here today we continue on with the effort to develop Public Policy that promotes the same ideals as tr did long ago. I have the privilege of being able to absorb what roosevelt experienced as i walk on the very same lands and see the same views he did so long ago. It was my time as governor of north dakota for a saturday to understand the Public Policy can be used to nudge along the same ideals and help conserve the foundations of our country. When i shared the western governors association, the group of 18 states goes from the country west, very involved in resource issues, we were shepherding the grand canyon visibility study. I was shocked when a regional epa administrator can then and was promoting the idea that north dakota should clean up the air better. I pointed out north dakota was the first state to meet the clean air standards, i was mining and farming coalfired power plants. But she couldnt disagree with that. However, her theory was that north dakota was too super clean the air, that it would go down to the central corridor and help clean up the air and visibility in the grand canyon. We had a conversation about that, but it was then that i understood if we were serious about conservation and preserving the productive capacity of land and resources you cant be sitting and a cubicle. You cant be in the office. You have to be on the lan and among the people they are producing an energizing that land be close to those who work the soil had to recover Natural Resources<