Thank you very much.
And welcome to the witnesses.
I'm quite interested in the safety net provisions and recovery strategies and the lack of enough data or scientific evidence to make decisions. It all seems related to me. We can't have recovery strategies because we don't know enough, maybe, about habitat or the state of the species itself. The safety net provisions, I imagine, are quite radical in terms of asserting federal authority.
As an aside, I would imagine that authority is constitutional, yet you can't take drastic action if you don't have the evidence to support your drastic action.
Am I correct that this is one big ball of wax, really related to the absence of scientific data? Am I understanding correctly, or am I just--