Gale Norton
Gale Norton
Gale Ann Nortonserved as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. She was the first woman to hold the position...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth11 March 1954
CountryUnited States of America
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As Colorado's attorney general, she allowed polluters to evade environmental fines and did little after a gold mine's cyanide leaks killed all life in a 17-mile stretch of river, ... In another case, she sat out the fight against a corporate power plant that broke air pollution laws 19,000 times.
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a very reasonable compromise between those who support further development ... to meet our growing energy demands and the citizens of Florida who oppose drilling in the waters off their coastline.
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This great icon of the American West now has a promising future. Our grandchildren's grandchildren will see grizzly bears roaming in mountains, forests and rivers in the Yellowstone area.
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We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.
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Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care of the tortoise, and it gives us the opportunity to manage an area that is going to be protected.
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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
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He is a consensus builder who spent a long career with the Bureau of Reclamation and then agreed to join my team to lead the bureau as commissioner. He will be missed.
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clearly will be in the billions of dollars.
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Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
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Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.