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...with the need to save money and increase production, especially of energy resources, the President is more interested in developing land than in preserving endangered animals or ecosystems. Since coming into office he has appointed people with a strong prodevelopment bias to the top environmental jobs. Interior Secretary James Watt, who as a Colorado lawyer used to battle the department he now heads, is only the most prominent example. Another Coloradan, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator-designate Anne Gorsuch made it a practice, as a state legislator, to oppose the EPA'S hazardous-waste and car-emission rules. Fellow Coloradan...
Last week Watt declared that the Administration, contrary to earlier statements, had no immediate plans to give back to state or local governments any land now set aside as national parks and wildlife refuges, including such urban parks as Gateway in New York and New Jersey, and Golden Gate in California...
...Watt has declared a moratorium on the acquisition of more national parkland, despite the fact that parks are now being used by more people than ever. In 1970 more than 172 million visited the country's national recreation areas; last year at least 300 million toured places like Yosemite, Yellowstone and Glacier. He has also invited private concessionaires to take over many more park functions, such as handling tenting and trailer reservations, running information booths and selling food, though the quality and cost of services now being provided by concessionaires have been the subject of three separate congressional investigations...
...platinum, for example. A study by Dr. Daniel Fine of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Mining and Minerals Research Institute concluded last year that the Soviet Union is becoming a net purchaser of key minerals as a way of protecting its own reserves. Said Interior Secretary James Watt: "Our dependence on foreign supplies jeopardizes our defense posture. We think we are really confronted with the possibility of a resource...
Secretary Watt, who heads a new Cabinet-level council on natural resources and environment, told the Senate energy and mineral resources subcommittee that the U.S. must increase the levels of the strategic stockpile, and also urged more exploration for minerals on federal lands. Said Watt: "The best answer to long-term minerals availability is domestic production." Environmental concerns have often blocked mining in the past...