Yellowstone Quotes

Yellowstone Park was started to protect the last buffalo ... and we're slaughtering them to protect animals that aren't even native to Montana. - Mike Mease

Wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone has been the most popular and most environmentally justified endangered species reintroduction effort. Opposition to wolves in Yellowstone has been extremely mean-spirited. However, once the appeals court has reviewed the law and the reintroduction effort, we are confident that it will permit the wolves to stay. They are the capstone to the Yellowstone ecosystem. - Brian O'Neill

While we salute and celebrate this progress, we cannot afford to gamble with the bears' future. The Yellowstone grizzly bear is an irreplaceable part of America's natural heritage, an icon of all that is wild and free. - Carl Pope

While not driving our listing decision, the Service appreciates the many conservation efforts conducted by our partners. Our decision was based primarily on the present-day status and trend of Yellowstone cutthroat trout populations and the mitigation of many of the existing factors that can affect the species. - Mitch King

We're inferring that there is a liquid water reservoir under the surface and it's erupting in a geyser-like fashion, maybe like the Yellowstone geysers you would see. - Linda Spilker

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. - Bruce Babbitt

We love national parks and lodges, particularly those built in the 1930s and '40s. We've been to lodges in North Carolina, in Yellowstone, Yosemite and most recently Lake Louise and Banff. We also like to go skiing in Aspen and enjoy the look of the ski lodges. - Rick Woods

We have developed a detailed management and monitoring plan ... and it will continue for the long term. It contains strict limits on mortality, strict habitat standards, and a comprehensive monitoring system for the bears, bear habitat, and bear foods. The future of the Yellowstone grizzly bears is bright, and I say that as a grizzly bear biologist. - Chris Servheen

We get people from all over the country, and that's where they go to ride. It would be as detrimental to me closing Mount Jefferson as closing Yellowstone Park was to the town of West Yellowstone it would kill us. - Kevin Phillips

We could turn what has been a success and the Yellowstone grizzly is a success into something with a different ending with neglect. - Louisa Willcox