Refuges Quotes

These barrier islands and barrier islands around the US are extraordinarily important. They do protect the mainland coast form the higher wave energies. They are also important in protecting bio diversity. They are important refuges for plants and animals. - Gregory Carter

There is an average of over 500 oil spills a year on Alaskan North Slope, and over 4,000 spills in the last 10 years. Let's not pollute one of the great last refuges of America. - Maria Cantwell

The opportunity is almost wide open. All 12 national wildlife refuges and state wildlife areas in the northern San Joaquin Valley will be open for children at no charge. They must be accompanied by a non-shooting adult chaperone. Up to two children may accompany one adult. - Bill Cook

Remote forest areas that function as refuges for threatened island species are increasingly rare and should receive the highest priority for conservation on the larger islands of the Pacific. - David Olson

Permanent habitat, river sloughs, beaver ponds, lakes and rivers, as well as pumped impoundments and refuges are holding the majority of the ducks. Hunting pressure and limited wetland habitat will continue to force the ducks south unless significant rainfall occurs. - Tim White

Our miners followed these procedures to the letter, and that's what saved them. They sealed themselves in (underground refuges) so they'd have clean air to breathe. - Fritz Corrigan

Military bases were damaged that need to be repaired. Those levees (in New Orleans) need to be repaired, so the Army Corps of Engineers is going to need money... There's highway money that's going to be needed for all the interstates that have been damaged. There are damages to the wildlife refuges down there. - John Scofield

It's one of the last, best refuges for these native fish in the Rocky Mountains. - Scott Bosse

It's disappointing that neither skyrocketing gas prices nor obscene oil company profits can break the bond between Bush Republicans and Big Oil. Americans are struggling to pay the rising cost of gas, and they are not interested in handouts to help oil companies make more money by letting them drill in wildlife refuges. Now it is finally time the Republican Congress acts to provide relief and to reduce our addiction to oil. - Harry Reid

It's as much a disaster for the places set aside to conserve wildlife as for the cities and the people who have been impacted. This is what I would call catastrophic damage to our national wildlife refuges. - Evan Hirsche