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SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR BRUCE BABBITT Hamburgers or hot dogs? "I would assume that it's hamburgers, but I don't know for sure." Mustard or catsup? "I don't think he likes either, but for the press, just say catsup...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has embarked on a mission to end the slaughter of buffalo outside of Yellowstone National Park in Montana. "There's no logical reason to pick on the bison to shoot and slaughter," Babbitt told reporters. To combat brucellosis, a disease found in bison that causes abortions, infertility and reduced milk production when transmitted to cattle, Montana officials are permitted to shoot any buffalo that wander outside of the park. Babbit advocates a different approach in the fight against brucellosis: more research, less guns. Specifically, the Interior Secretary has asked the National Academy of Sciences...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has embarked on a mission to end the slaughter of buffalo outside of Yellowstone National Park in Montana. "There's no logical reason to pick on the bison to shoot and slaughter," Babbitt told reporters. To combat brucellosis, a disease found in bison that causes abortions, infertility and reduced milk production when transmitted to cattle, Montana officials are permitted to shoot any buffalo that wander outside of the park. Babbit advocates a different approach in the fight against brucellosis: more research, less guns. Specifically, the Interior Secretary has asked the National Academy of Sciences...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: Forget about terrorism, nuclear bombs or chemical weapons. When it comes to threats to U.S. security, nothing sends more shivers down American spines than the brown tree snake. Or so says Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt, who described the non-poisonous reptile from Guam as a "major disaster looming across the Pacific, pointed at Hawaii and perhaps the southern United States." The slippery villains, who now inhabit Guam at the rate of 2,000 to 3,000 snakes per acre, are "everywhere," an excited Babbitt told a Senate budget hearing. They are wiping out native plant species, putting power...
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has taken pains to respond to sentiments like this. Last month Interior officials flew to Utah to begin consulting with the Governor and other officials on how to protect both the monument and the local economy. Such joint planning has rarely been tried before in land-use disputes, and Babbitt has high hopes for it. "This is a brand-new model," he says. "We want to live together out there...