We will seek to buy the land — but only from willing owners. We're not going to condemn any property.

I'm not even sure at this point that a Florida panther, as a subspecies, exists.

I think they had to do what they had to do, but it kind of clouds things.

If you own the land, you have a long-term investment with more security that the timber will be there over the years. If you let it go and it goes to other uses, you'll never get it back.

Informing property owners whether a proposed use of their land is legal shouldn't be controversial, though this is abhorrent to elitists within the environmental community. For over thirty years they've used the ESA to destroy small landowners, largely at their whim. Meanwhile, their stated goal of recovering endangered species never materialized.

[There's no] Worst-Case Scenario Land ... but we'll take the call.