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...Bruce and Hattie Babbitt...
...Babbitt's Redemption...
...again-off-again effort to raise the fees businesses pay for such activities as mining and cattle grazing on federal land. Those proposals were originally part of Clinton's budget plan, but the President backed away from the idea after members of Congress from Western states squawked. Babbitt sees the setback as a temporary retreat and vows to raise land-use fees gradually through administrative actions and support for legislation...
...They were just pumping the place dry," says Interior Secretary Babbitt. Last month, under threat of increasing federal intervention, the Texas legislature passed a bill empowering the state to regulate and manage the withdrawal of groundwater in Edwards Aquifer. The state will now devise a plan for equitable water distribution that will enable the springs to flow even in times of drought, while protecting the delicate ecosystem that provides that water. "This is a spectacular success," says Babbitt, "a really remarkable evolution in which a small fish facing extinction triggered a lawsuit, which triggered a legislative response that...
...have no idea how this might all fit together.' It put us in a different frame of mind." Out of the assemblage of foresters, biologists, economists, plant and fish experts, geomorphologists, hydrologists and social scientists emerged perhaps the most sophisticated conservation analysis to date. A pioneering effort, says Babbitt. Noted team leader Jack Ward Thomas, chief wildlife biologist at the Department of Agriculture: "We're moving into ecosystem management, which nobody has ever done before...