• Mike Huckabee is known for his pro-environmental views and believes that people should be good stewards to the environment regardless of the cause
• Outdoor Life magazine selected Huckabee as one of the 25 most influential people for conservation. He was also named as Man of the Year by the American Sportfishing Association in 1997.
• "I have always been a conservationist. Stewardship of the air and land and soil is very important to me. I will follow the principle I learned from the Boy Scouts: Always leave the land better than when you found it. I am proud of my record in Arkansas, building constructive consensus on key issues. I look forward to bringing the same leadership to America."
• His stated his views on global warming, "The most important thing about global warming is this. Whether humans are responsible for the bulk of climate change is going to be left to the scientists, but it is all of our responsibility to leave this planet in better shape for the future generations than we found it."
• Huckabee believes that human beings are just the caretakers of the magnificent creation of planet earth. "I believe that even our responsibility to God means that we have to be good stewards of this Earth, be good caretakers of the natural resources that don't belong to us, we just get to use them. We have no right to abuse them."
• The former governor of Arkansas supported conserving the Buffalo River in the northern part of the state when he took a stand against the construction of dams at the site. "While I understand that building dams on streams can sometimes be useful in flood control, the creation of water reservoirs necessary for sustaining life, or for the production of electricity, we must be careful to balance our use of those resources to ensure that we do not lose all our natural treasures by altering them."
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