Even with his mistakes, he's far better than Salazar,  who has been a disaster for public lands and wildlife (especially endangered species and Yellowstone wolves).
I'd worry less about a guy who gets a few tiny details wrong than a guy who has no idea what the big picture is. Raul is a true conservationist who is serious about public lands ranching welfare, endangered species, and other aspects of conservation. Salazar is a corporate rancher who left all of Bush's goons in place at the DOI.
 
Gee, touch choice.

Anyone that ecologically illiterate would be a disaster.  I'm no Salazar fan.  But a person who wants more feral horses on wildlife habitat is NOT a "true conservationist."

And a guy who attacks the ESA *is* a conservationist? (Salazar) We have bigger fish to fry than wild horses... like endangered spcecies, pesticides, climate change, and roadless areas--asll topics with which Grijalve is on the sie of science and common sense. Salazar has been an unmitigated disaster for megafauna, roadless areas, fracking, offshore drilling, climate change, and endngered species.
Surely you can see that climate change and roadless areas ursurp the wild horses issue? I don't thin kour kids, 100 years from now are going to be wondering about wild horses. They're going to be asking why it's so darn hot, and about the wicked storms that appeared regularly. Or where all the wild spaces went, or where the wolves and grizzlies went.
Raul Grijalva is easily the best choice for SOI right now. The rest are corporate lackeys like Salazar with little regard for science or wildlife. Girjalva is much closer to
Bruce Babbit.
 
When Obama took over, all he had to do was hite a conservationist for SOI. He did not do that. When Budh took over in 2000, he wiped the deaprtment clean of Clinton people. Obama and Salazr never got rid of the Bush people, and there's no excuse for that. Grijalva will.
 
 

Salazar has done no such thing.  Again, I'm not a huge fan.  Raul couldn't carry Babbitt's golf shoes.  Raul is an ecological illiterate as he has demonstrated with his advocacy for one of the most destructive invasive aliens.  Sure there are bigger fish to fry than feral horses, but he exposes what he is by advocating more not less of them.

sorry, Ted. I love ya, but you are wrong on this one. Salazar knee-capped the ESA by going along with the wolf-delisting rider which in essence was the single biggest attack on the ESA in years . He also caved into Wyoming's anti-science wolf plan, allowing them to "shoot wolveson sight" in over 80% of the state at any time, for any reason. This is also the fault of an illiterate Montana "democratic" senator and Obama.
He has delayed protectons for wolverine and numeorus other species. Salazar has been as bad as Gale Norton. He never even bothered to clear out the Bush people. He is a corporate rancher and a disaster for public lands and wildlife.
Obama's two biggest mistakes are his poor negotiating skills and Salazar. I, and many others were hoping for change at the DOi when we elected a Democrat. Instead, we got the same ole, same ole.
Grijalva can be educated on the horse issue. He would be far, far superior to the corporate, fake cowboy Salazar. We need real change in the DOI.