poitunity to speak to you, your colleagues, and the public today about the possible designation of critical habitat for die golden-cheeked waibler and what that could mean to farmers and ranchers in Texas. I hope that I can lay to rest some fears about what such a designation would...
mean.
i My message today is that the ESA contains the flexibility Aat we need as a country to protect species and their habitat and to respect values and rights of citizens. These may at first seem to be in conflict However, I believe that Congress wisely did not give us a rigid Act; it gave us an Act that has as its motivation a grave concern for vanishing speaes and their habitat in our country, but that allows us to take into account the needs and desires of the human community. I I have organized my remarks into three parts.
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