Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to welcome all of our guests. Thank you for being here to help us talk about a national conservation plan. A previous group suggested that maybe we should be talking about a national conservation framework. I think you brought some issues before us in a manner that we haven't heard before, using some very creative descriptions and metaphors on the role of the rancher as an ecologist in managing his land successfully. It was a very interesting metaphor you used, Mr. Jamieson.
You guys, particularly the cattle ranchers here, correctly talked about the divide, the polarization, that happens when there's conflict, stereotyping, and antagonism rather than collaboration.
Mr. Fitch is sitting in-between the two of you. Your organization, Cows and Fish, seems to have had some experience in trying to bridge the divide. How long has your Cows and Fish organization existed?