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So the conservation community has sought other ways to protect them. In the mid-'90s, Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt and President Bill Clinton whipped out Teddy Roosevelt's favorite law, the Antiquities Act of 1906, to carve out new national monuments from the Bureau of Land Management's geographic stockpile. This monument spree infuriated many locals and industries, but their lawsuits bounced off the Antiquities Act like hailstones on granite.
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Power Politics, Conservation Style
The late David Brower, of Sierra Club fame, once said that no environmental victories are permanent. The warning behind his words - that those who fight t...
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