Thank you.
To Ducks Unlimited, maybe I misunderstood you, but it sounded as though a major component of your presentation was that you're asking for more government regulation of private land use. There's a difference between best management practices and encouraging those on the farm, and calling on government to come in and regulate the use of private lands. Rural people kind of resist that notion. I'm just wondering if you have some comment on that.
Some of us have been working at trying to get local communities more involved in these environmental projects, trying to bring some the responsibility back to the local communities, giving them some responsibility for choosing the research that's done. To hear a major organization seem to be suggesting that what we need is this top-down approach from outside again on rural communities.... Rural people probably need to know that, if that's what you're suggesting, first of all.
Is that what you're talking about, or are you talking about trying to work with those local communities, giving them more responsibility, and having them create the expectations of improvement, or do you want what I'll call the heavy hand coming from above?