Going back to what we heard in a previous hearing, we talk a lot about science and the need for science in creating recovery plans and so on. It's all very theoretical, and it all makes sense. But when you speak to federal officials, they say, “Well, you know, it takes a year to hire a biologist.”
Are there resource constraints on implementing SARA? It's fine to say that we need to do an evaluation of this, we need to do a study of that, we need to have a scientific opinion on this--and yet we don't have the capacity to do it all.