Thank you, and thank you again to the witnesses for coming today.
I wanted to pick up on some of the comments that were made around Mr. Regan's line of questioning. Part of what we're looking at in this study is best practices. Mr. McLean, you made a comment, and I'm paraphrasing, that habitat doesn't provide for only one species. I know we've talked before at this committee about a whole ecosystem approach to looking at species management, recovery strategies, and whatnot. I was wondering if you could speak a little first to some of the principles that would be used to develop best practices in looking at recovering a species or a set of species and ecosystems, some of what Mr. Regan was saying, and adding to that. In your notes, you were talking about:
The North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP) is a continental effort to conserve sufficient wetland and associated uplands habitats to sustain healthy populations....
Could you talk a bit about some of those best practices you use in determining how habitat stewardship is used to recover a species?