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Article: America's landlord. (profile of Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- May 17, 1993
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Bruce Babbitt's land reforms are driven by a new vision of the West
Bruce Babbitt surveys the crowd packing Montana State University's ballroom in Bozeman. In the second row, a sunburned, booted rancher looks dismissively at a young environmentalist clad in Patagonia fleece and neon-hued athletic shoes. Babbitt, who as secretary of the interior may be the most powerful man in the American West, is five contentious hours into this first of several public hearings on grazing on public lands. When he proposed the meetings, he told aides: We'll kill them with process, we'll listen and listen until the last cowboy walks out exhausted. By 3 p.m. the meeting is ...