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
actively looking sales
We are actively looking at lease sales in the 181 area,
democrat
I started out as a Democrat.
government regulation way
Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?
growing-up mountain colorado
Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.
long natural resources
Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.
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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.
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I was a little too young to be a hippie.
agencies gets level local programs
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.
people
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.
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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.
estimates experts sale
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.
lands needs responsibility
Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.
increased vastly
We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.
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The data suggests that ongoing, intense earthquake activity has weakened the rock dome, increasing the likelihood of an eruption either in the form of more explosions or perhaps lava flow from the dome,