Rebecca Wodder Quotations

Poorly-planned development is marching like a marauding army through the Shenandoah Valley.

The scientific community urges immediate protection of the Hanford Reach ecosystem as the core strategy to recover Columbia Basin salmon.

This is not a list of the nation's worst rivers, it is a list of rivers that are in danger.

The Yellowstone River is a national treasure, but building these homes right on the river sets the table for massive bank stabilization and flood control projects in the future, and wrecks the very reason people want to live there in the first place.

This is where the drinking water comes from.

Damming, drilling, burning -- all of these things have impacts and they have them first and worst on our nation's rivers.

The Corps tries to solve 21st century water resource problems with 19th century solutions. The Feingold-McCain bill will help ensure the Corps won't repeat the mistakes of the past.

The corps must change its approach if the agency is going to provide real protection to communities along the Pajaro. The corps must stop treating nature as the enemy on the Pajaro, and start treating it as an ally.

The legacy of bad Corps water projects has ranged from farce to tragedy, with the citizens of New Orleans paying the most recent price. The Feingold-McCain bill would reverse decades of bad practice by the Corps, and Congress should seize this opportunity to address the harsh lessons of Hurricane Katrina.