I want to get started with that. It is a book that sean mentioned. I will be drawing material from it tonight. The history of Recreational Development in colorado after world war ii. Mostly focuses on 19421945 all stop how the southern rockies in a few decades went from a remote and a skewer backwater to one of the most heavily visited vacation destinations in the united states. One question we ask in the book is how did the country come to be a Vacation Land all stop much more broadly, the book is an effort to examine bigger issues. It goes way beyond the high country. Whennt to figure out how tourers and became such a big business in the decades after world war ii, and america began to seek out its landscape like colorado high country for leisure and personal fulfillment and pleasure, and when they got into the way these landscapes were being marketed. What implications did all of that have for america. Environment, nature. People want to consume recreational landscape of stop what c
And also very good about corruption. They went to get installed of big guns. That this is where were going is what fascinates me. Gaul other than the revelation i thank you had a lot of fun writing the book. Then you think now what am i going to do . But i really felt it was fun. Yes. Is there a movie deal . We are working on it. [applause] i will not say anything until it happens. Thank you very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] here is in the house we have the book for sale on the counter. That was a wonderful presentation. Give her another hand. [applause] [inaudible conversations] host joining us now on booktv, what do you write about . The latest book is called the eyes on target about the navy seals but it is different about the culture culture, what makes them different and unique. They spend millions of dollars to discover how when a navy seal is made what makes some people make it through basic training and 70 fail their luck at demographics and family background and
Tur a posture. In other words, our Law Enforcement Community Show up after the fact. I was one of those. I would show up after the fact. I saw the blood. I went to court. And so much of the time i saw crime in the streets and people getting victimized in the streets of our cities, being victimized in our courtrooms. That was one of the the im t impotus for me to go to law school. Senator, i absolutely agree that we should have boyfriends, dating partners we have it in pennsylvania, okay . Its important. As the sheriff said, they can shoot. They can beat like anybody else. As dr. Malcolm points out as a jurist, i went from being a cop where i cared about the victims to a jurist where i cared about the accused. We have to keep focused on the fact that we have two parties here. We have the accused and we have the accuser, the victim. And my goal was always to have a level Playing Field. You know, one of the things that i always thought was so needed, so necessary, so wanting was Law Enfor
Combine the answers. Last time, i sort of walked through a scenario, okay, this isnt about the water. Its about anything thats a pollutant in the water. Our little scenario of the dry wash behind my home and i put fertilizer and plants and sediment and 14 inches of rain i get a year that all come on a tuesday, its running down the wash and hits the birdie river and the birdie river hits the salt river and runs into this rehabbed area. I use fertilizer, i move dirt. It potentially got washed down that dry wash into a running river. Do i potentially need a 4 zur 4 permit in planting my tree, and whats my exposure that may not be your intent today, but the way this is drafted, theres a whole new cause of action and future litigation coming at us that the lawyers now get to spend the next decade moving that direction . Well, the quick answer is, you know, and i want to be put the asterisks next to this, i would love to go to your house and look at the project myself, but i would say its hi
Youre saying. You need to back up. Because frankly, the outcome that you desire is going to be pushed back at by this entire country, not because it isnt an outcome that we might all want and even agree on, but because frankly, nobody believes you. I wonder i mean, i wonder how you feel about that. Or if you even agree. Well, i havent, and nor does the epa, do polling to determine who believes us or who doesnt believe us. But you dont have to. Let me just say what i believe, okay. I dont believe that most people dont trust epa. The polling i have seen, for what its worth, back in the past by others, shows that people prefer epa to be setting standards. And you know, i dont have enough data on what every person in the United States thinks about but preferring to have them set standards is not the same as being as trusting them. Yes. So this trust thing is a problem, particularly if congress has it. This is not an idle problem, and we need to work on that. Im here today, trying to explai