THE LORD OF THE LAND; Bruce Babbitt Rode Out of The Mythical Old West. Now He's Loading Up For a Showdown With It.

From: The Washington Post | Date: January 23, 1994| Author: | Copyright information

Even if Bruce Babbitt didn't have such a finely tuned ear for history, it would be hard for him not to hear the murmurs of the past.

When he walks down the corridor leading to his office, the nation's 47th secretary of the interior passes a gallery of oil paintings of those who preceded him as landlord of America's public domain - the more than 500 million acres of parks, range land, deserts, forests, wildlife refuges and Indian reservations overseen by his sprawling department.

Babbitt frequently says that during the Reagan and Bush presidencies "the lights were turned off" at ...

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