We try and do our best to work with the landowners. We realize that these projects do have impacts and we do our best to mitigate them.

Most research projects just look at impacts on biodiversity and land degradation without integrating socioeconomic factors. Changes in social systems are all reflected in the environment. It is critical to link the two.

We've reviewed the scan charts, enrollment projects and we've surveyed staff. We've really done a whole lot of work. We've reviewed boundary change options and looked at both short-term and long-term solutions.

It also helps that Chinese contractors tend to do the work on their projects.

There were two different contractors, two different projects and they bid different prices to do the same amount of work.

I have a few projects that Jim Bowden wants me to work with. We want to be a little more aggressive this year. That's probably one of the reasons they pursued me.