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...that put a third of the national forests off limits to logging or suspending new listings on the Endangered Species Act, the message from the White House is clear: the West is open for business. "I believe people should make decisions about their own lives," said Interior Secretary Gale Norton in an interview with Time last week. "Decisions made from behind a desk in Washington seldom reflect the knowledge and love that people have of their own communities...
...Washington, Secretary Norton called the Klamath showdown "a very difficult situation. Something I hope we can avoid in the future with more long-term planning." Norton also said that her department would be examining the ESA, which Republicans and some Democrats have begun to say needs revision. "We are looking at the science as to what the endangered species are so that we really have an understanding...
There's trouble in this verdant paradise 80 miles southwest of Crater Lake. The rules protecting Cascade-Siskiyou were put on hold last March, when new Interior Secretary Gale Norton delayed implementing management plans for 16 of 21 monuments that Clinton created or expanded, until matters ranging from boundary adjustments to vehicle use can be scrutinized by homeowners, local officials and the White House...
...feds are on a land grab. The ranchers and loggers seem outnumbered by monument supporters (people who attended three public hearings seemed to favor the designation by a ratio of 2 to 1). But this week the Jackson County board of commissioners will make recommendations to Interior Secretary Norton, and it is expected that the wide-ranging public support will be tempered with the concerns of businesses...
...this week. And he didn't just get a cast, he got a Mount Rushmore of actors: Marlon Brando as Max, an elderly homosexual crook orchestrating the biggest heist of his career; Robert De Niro as an aging thief ready to retire from his life of crime; and Edward Norton as a smart young punk eager to begin...