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The California Gold Rush left us a tragic legacy. We appreciate state parks' willingness to take action to end Empire's toxic legacy of contaminating our watershed.

Carrie Mcneil

I think it's an excellent deal for the city of North Adams, ... It relieves the city of taxes, allows us to boost up our reserves, which have been beaten up over recent years, and allows us to retain our water rights. I'm very confident that the watershed, being in the hands of the Forest Service, will be protected indefinitely.

John Barrett

Waco citizens deserve to know what ... their hard-earned money was used for. The public also deserves to know what will be required of the defendant dairies as they continue to operate in the North Bosque watershed.

John Cowan

I think this will be a tremendous watershed moment, no pun intended, for our western development.

Mike Cope

Once a watershed is past 30 percent (developed) it's gone, ... Critters and endangered species are important, but the main reason for protecting the Pinelands was to preserve water quality, the aquifer and the rivers and estuaries.

Jeff Tittel

That's what we call fire borrowing. We hate to do that cause we take money from recreation, range, watershed and wildlife programs.

Rose Davis

There's this tendency in the West to believe that the insurgency is linked to Iraqi politics. As much as the White House would like to set a milestone, we're not going to realize what the turning point was until a year or two after the fact. We have to stop looking for a watershed moment.

Michael Rubin

The essential fate of the watershed will be decided in the next five-10 years. There are just so few places left where there is an opportunity to determine the fate. This is one of the few places in New England where the time is now.

Nathan Frohling

This year will be a watershed for delivering to consumers an array of new entertainment experiences. Thanks to broadband proliferation and growing cooperation between content producers and other members of the digital entertainment value chain, we'll see significant product and service announcements throughout 2006.

Kurt Scherf

All 15 towns in the watershed that are up for new permits will get their new permits sometime in the coming year, hopefully by the spring. It will be interesting to see how many then ask for administrative law review.

Bob Zimmerman

Everything that occurs in the watershed is eventually going to end up in the embayment.

Paul Sawyko

(Women of Wal-Mart) was a real watershed moment for Playboy.com in terms of the number of people who actually paid money to get access to the pay-per-view part of the feature.

John Thomas

This is an opportunity that won't come our way again in our lifetimes. It's a watershed time for the state.

Randall Edwards

Signing Neil Diamond was a watershed moment for us, ... We invested to make this happen. And it's been a strategy that's worked for us.

Pat Collins

What we're asking the Department of State for is the money to finish the rest of the county that is outside the West-of-Hudson watershed. We're using that report as the example of how we do the work, what we produce, the kind of materials that we used.

Rick Fritschler

They need to know about the watershed. What better way to understand it than to be immersed into that environment? Kids who live along the creek show an interest and that trickles into their family.

Brian Suter

I am strongly in favor of agriculture, ... I view this as a watershed moment in that we can determine the future of ag and, in some ways, development.

Tom Tryon

We finally got the geographical area designated as the watershed of Bogue Sound.

Gray Harrison

We are a watershed town. Most people here don't like to admit it but we are. The Farm River runs right through town. We need to protect that resource. You can't have oil leaking into the ground. We certainly had help in forming that, but I am very proud of that.

Mary Bigelow

We'd be very, very interested in holding a tournament to commemorate the watershed event in American golf, the 1913 U.S. Open, ... If the USGA saw fit to invite us to hold the Open and it could be done in a manner that was acceptable to The Country Club, we'd welcome it.

John Cornish

It can be a watershed district, it can be a school district, it could be another state agency. Just about anybody, if we have good samples, can submit data and we would use the data for this program. So when we talk about who's contributing, it's a really wide range of folks that are doing that.

Jim Zeigler

The MRA takes the heat for everything that happens in the watershed, ... But they have no enforcement authority or responsibility.

Howard Johnson

Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought, an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities.

Wade Davis

Every time your car leaks, every time you wash your car, every time you mow your grass too short, you're making a choice that can, potentially, impair a watershed. What we are trying to educate about is, there is an alternative -- there are other things you can do to protect and conserve clean water resources.

Trevor Harris

The San Pedro River watershed, an internationally recognized ecological treasure, is a much-valued resource for Arizona, the U.S. and Mexico. We hope to bring water quality improvements to this watershed, and will strive to protect Arizona's water resources for generations to come.

Alexis Strauss

Yes, there is need for the pipeline, but in a different location — far from Baikal's watershed ... otherwise we will ruin it.

Gennady Chegasov

A lot of people don't know what we have in our watershed. This is an opportunity for them to get out and find out about the positive water resources we have and make that personal connection.

Tracie Beasley

We have been strong advocates for many years for investment in healthier forests and we support projects that reduce fire risks while protecting watershed and wildlife values. Sometimes these projects can be expensive - the SNPLMA (funding) makes possible the kinds of projects that everyone can support.

Rochelle Nason

If the five or six bombs' worth of plutonium they are sitting on ends up going into nuclear weapons, then I think we are really reaching a watershed moment where the U.S., its troops in the region and its allies are threatened by a nuclear North Korea, with, I think, very significant regional and global consequences.

Jon Wolfsthal

I think it's a watershed moment.

Harry Pachon

We're not sitting on our hands waiting for someone to hand us money. With smaller watershed groups and state and local government being open to new ideas, our job is to see that other solutions are being put into practice.

Tom Rathbun

There will be sex and swearing, I assume. I'm quite relaxed about that, as it will be post-watershed and Russell can do it in a funny and sexy way.

Stuart Murphy

I envision watershed protection as a big thing.

Richard Sommer

It's a forum to really concentrate on the watershed and present relative information, and to point out problems we've dealt with in the past and want to avoid in the future.

Geoff Welch

We'll never be the same again. But the school will move forward. It is a watershed Thursday but I don't think it will be our last hurdle.

Cheron Taylor

This is a watershed decision (that) reaffirms the liberty, dignity and privacy Americans cherish at the end of life.

Barbara Coombs Lee

It was a real watershed moment for eBay.

Jim Griffith

The far north end of the fire has reached what is essentially considered the upper portion of the Gallinas watershed. However, water quality has not been affected.

Maria Garcia

It's the most amazing thing to watch your son be a father, and he's just wonderful at it. This is a real watershed moment for our family.

Tony Danza

This is a pristine watershed, with a lot of spawning habitat and it could support a big run of the species. That is why we are so eager to get something going.

Tom Cleveland

The big ecological changes are really beginning ... in the West. We're seeing some of the effects already — massive forest die-offs, outbreaks of severe forest fires. Whatever affects the watershed is potentially devastating.

Tom Swetnam

Everybody lives in a watershed. And water runs downhill.

Bill Aho

The Grow Green program, which is a joint program of Extension and the City of Austin Watershed Protection Development Review, has produced a free guide on weeds that's available to anyone with an interest in gardening. It's a nice, full-color publication with lots of useful information for home gardeners.

Skip Richter

I think it's a watershed year just in the magnitude of the increase.

Jim Folkman

We know that our bull trout use the upper portion of the watershed. It's critical habitat, and the higher these proposals reach into those headwaters, the greater the impact on a fish that's already on the brink of extinction.

Clint Muhlfeld

Anything that improves the quality of water in the river, improves the quality of life for the 3.2 million people who live within its watershed.

Ron Downie

Open space is what made this watershed the way it is and that's what is going to preserve it.

Anthony Irving

This is a watershed event for the industry.

Joseph Clayton

I think we're early on in what could be one of the watershed moments in intercollegiate athletics. This is clearly a pivotal time in terms of the next decade or so, both in terms of conference membership and what the next generation of the postseason will look like. Not withstanding some of the Darwinian aspects to it, I do think there will be a place for everybody.

Rick Chryst

I want this to be a watershed moment. How many homeless people are enough to move county, city and community members to action?

Lisa Fisher

The electric barrier is crude but it's the best thing we have now. The irony is the barrier was first proposed to keep round gobies (another fish invader in the Great Lakes) from colonizing the Mississippi River watershed, but by the time the barrier was built they had already passed it. Now the motivation is to keep the carp from coming from the other direction.

David Lodge

The Commonwealth has provided significant resources through Growing Greener to support the formation of watershed groups and completion of various planning documents, such as river conservation plans. The need is to focus on implementing on-the-ground, high quality projects that benefit aquatic habitat at the ecosystem level. That is the missing link.

Scott Carney

This year's shoppers will be very demanding in terms of site speed, real-time product availability information and fulfillment. This will be the watershed year for many e-commerce efforts because Web sites that don't meet performance expectations of these savvy customers will be abandoned.

Laurie Windham

We're just getting going with (fuels) reduction and projects that will really help the watershed. I think we're starting to get a handle on the kinds of tangible projects that will make both immediate and long-term impact(s).

Rex Norman

If the union loses on this one, ... it may not be a watershed comparable to the air traffic controllers strike in 1982, but it would be a big setback.

David Olson

We need to have a master plan — we need to have a backbone to preserve the greenways and protect the watershed.

Tom Stevens

It was a watershed for Indian diplomacy and showed the maturity and confidence with which we negotiated with the world's only superpower.

Lalit Mansingh

The delivery of the Arctic 320 liquid lens is a watershed event that will usher in the mass production of camera-phones using liquid lenses. Because of the unique advantages - in terms of size, cost, quality, and durability - we expect that liquid lenses will rapidly become the dominant system for auto-focus or zooming capabilities in the camera-phone market.

John Barber

OSM has failed to address our central allegation that, cumulatively, the mining in the New River watershed will adversely affect the Big South Fork.

Don Barger

Across from the spring on the River Road has become a dump. People throw all kinds of stuff down there, and then the spring runs through it into the water. It's a huge source of contamination for the watershed.

Dana Harris

We're being inundated with questions about multilingual names being available for .com. We haven't had multilingual technology on the Internet. This is such a watershed event.

Jeffrey Johnson

We'll walk over to Frick Park (in neighboring Pittsburgh) and observe the watershed, the stream and test the water. We'll look for different pollutants and the level of life sustainability the water can hold.

Greg Egnor

Since we all live in a watershed, we need to be aware of the conservation practices that are installed and areas that need to be improved, ... Buckeye Creek is an excellent opportunity for farmers, urban residents, city and school to work together to improve their natural resource concerns.

Don Swanson

Waterhouse will be doing about two-thirds of its trading on-line. So I think that's going to be kind of a key offering, kind of a watershed offering for the month. If it does okay, then I think the Internet correction might have run almost its entire course.

Mark Basham

At a personal and team level, I hope that Slovakia will be a real watershed.

Anthony Roberts

This is a watershed decision.

Andrew George

Such incidents should not be shown until after the 9 p.m. watershed, and preferably not at all. It's making it more difficult to help our young children grow up.

Martin Ward

This is a watershed event. We are taking our energy destiny into our own hands.

Kris Mayes

If eBay loses, it is a watershed case. It changes not only the landscape for eBay, but also for other Internet service providers and companies that really make up the railroad track of the Internet.

Joseph Berghammer

Wildfire is the biggest threat to our communities, our lake and our watershed. I would hope that concern is considered by place based planning participants.

Wayne Fischer

Since 1992, we have surveyed 10 other locations in the Chesapeake watershed. These catfish from the South River have the highest skin tumor rate and second highest liver tumor rate.

Fred Pinkney

This is a watershed event in the history of biology. It is the first complete blueprint of a complex organism.

Harold Varmus

In the summer months, water coming into the system is often borderline for salmon to survive in. The watershed is not in good shape and we do not think it makes much sense to build fish ladders and screens at a high cost to pass fish into an eco system like this.

Dave Kvamme

We're seeing some of the effects already - massive forest die-offs, outbreaks of severe forest fires. Whatever affects the watershed is potentially devastating.

Tom Swetnam

We are now at a watershed.

Joseph Lazzaro