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The new marine monuments will comprise the ocean waters within a 50-nautical-mile radius of the protected islands and will safeguard virtually the whole of the Mariana Trench. Commercial fishing will be banned within the monuments, and mining, oil exploration and other commercial activity will be limited. (Sportfishing and...
But other environmentalists argue that Salazar's centrism will serve him well at Interior, where he'll need to balance protection of the land and species with legitimate development of the country's natural resources. They point to his past practice in Colorado as a water-rights lawyer as evidence...
It's a tall task, and one he must accomplish without being dragged down by a department beset by scandal and dysfunction. "Short of a crime, anything goes at the highest levels of the Department of the Interior," Earl Devaney, the department's inspector general, testified before Congress in September...
• "Ken Salazar is very closely tied to ranching and mining and very traditional, old-time Western extraction industries. We were promised that an Obama presidency would bring change." -Kieran Suckling of the Tucson-based Center for Biological Diversity, NPR, Dec. 16, 2008
• "Nothing in his record suggests he's an ideologue. Here's a man who understands the issues, is open-minded and can see at least two sides of an issue." -Luke Popovich, spokesman for the National Mining Association, New York Times, Dec. 18, 2008