HCN GOT IT WRONG ON THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION To the Editor: The Dec. 6 feature article, “Taking the West Forward,” contains a thoughtful overview of issues facing the West but it grossly mischaracterizes the Bush Administration’s policies and programs. The article states the administration has “opened the region’s resources to development” when in fact public […]
Rebecca W. Watson
Posted inFebruary 21, 2005: Have Environmentalists Failed the West?
HCN has it wrong on Bush
The Dec. 6 feature article, “Taking the West Forward,” grossly mischaracterizes the Bush administration’s policies and programs. The article states the administration has “opened the region’s resources to development” when in fact public lands, at the direction of Congress, have been open for years. More typically, this administration has restricted development in previously open sensitive […]