of something like 900 kilometers in space. The only evident sign of human 

 habitation. Oh, we're very democratic, again, with the plumes of smoke. 

 They ^ everywhere, everybody gets some. 



There's another kind of plume that we have not been reading about 

 until quite recently that is a classic example of how man can affect his 

 neighbor whether he wants to or not. Many of you have heard me talk 

 about it because it's a fantastic example of what we can do to one another. 

 You're all familiar with the oil spill, the runaway oil well in Mexico. An 

 oil well which only recently was capped, and that plume of oil circled 

 about the Gulf of Mexico for two seasons now. Nobody knows where it all 

 is at this moment. It's out there somewhere. It will not go away in spite 

 of what people would like to believe. It got there simply because man dug 

 a hole in the ocean floor and let the consequence get away from him. I 

 think it's important that we understand what man can do in these 

 circumstances. For people who are like you and me--a small group in a 

 part of Montana that's beautiful, pristine virtually, for all practical 

 purposes is pristine--where the trout season will open tomorrow, where 

 real values lie. There's a good reason to be worried about these things 

 because my business is not to produce ducks for the duck hunter entirely. 

 It is not entirely to save endangered species. It is not entirely to fund 

 the state fish and game programs. It is not just the things that the 

 federal government does through the Fish and Wildlife Service, but I feel a 

 great commitment to the idea that all of us have an obligaton to the 

 future. It's as simple as that. 



We must maintain somehow, by some means, the opportunity for future 

 generations to make the same mistakes that we can make today. A very 

 important idea in my judgement. Give future generations the opportunity 

 to make the same mistakes that we can make today. If they have that 

 opportunity, then we will have given them at least as much as we have 

 today. Then perhaps no one from a future generation can look and say, 

 "How come you did what you did to me?" 



I think it is a fairly noble calling, a fairly important aspiration for 

 any of us. The consequences are unacceptable. I suggest then that 

 maybe the idea of the question, "How come you do me like you do?" is one 

 that it would bear having a proclamation about so that maybe each one of 

 us sometime during one day in each year, would stand up before the 

 mirror and ask himself "How come you do me like you do?" 



Ladies and gentlemen, I have enjoyed the evening thoroughly. Thank 

 you very, very much. 



