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
facilities major months next
Major repairs may take months and some facilities into next year,
billions clearly
clearly will be in the billions of dollars.
conference following forward holding national notebooks park press reporters visiting wilderness
I look forward to visiting a national park and not holding a press conference in there. I look forward to being able to contemplate the wilderness without having reporters and their notebooks following me.
facilities fast primarily question
It's primarily a question of how fast (processing) facilities get back on line,
democrat
I started out as a Democrat.
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.
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.