The United States is locked in partisanship and it’s very hard to reach across the aisle and find common sense solutions - especially for conservation - according to former Secretary of Interior Gale Norton. That is why she has joined the Conservation Leadership Council - an organization committed to addressing the nation’s environmental challenges through the application of conservative principles, policies and approaches. The CLC is unveiling a set of important policy papers that offer private-public partnership solutions for conservation at an event this week in Washington, D.C.

Norton says the CLC doesn’t want big government solutions - rather ideas that can appeal across the board - based on fiscal responsibility, limited government, market entrepreneurship, community leadership and public-private partnerships.

Unfortunately - according to Norton - the U.S. has not been applying the expertise that made America great to the challenges of environmental protection…