Word: ridenour
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...park, an example of what happens when man meddles too much with nature. Policies shift with political winds, and under former National Park Service director William Penn Mott, a wolf enthusiast, Yellowstone officials pushed hard for the wolf's reintroduction. Now Mott has been replaced by fence-sitter James Ridenour, and political pressure is reaching Yellowstone. Two weeks ago, a traveling Park Service slide show on wolf reintroduction was canceled. An elaborate study asked for by Congress seems certain, when it is released at year's end, to recommend the return of wolves, but political maneuvering has blocked the drafting...
...would give a reason for the impending firing except that George Bush and Lujan want their own team. Mott will be replaced by James Ridenour, director of Indiana's natural resources department. He was campaign finance chief for Dan Quayle when the Vice President won election to the Senate in 1980. Ridenour's new boss is expected to be Constance Harrington, a former attorney at the department and daughter of a Republican Party fund raiser. She is in line to be named Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks. Said a department employee about Secretary Lujan: "It looks like...