Word: interior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...review of fire-management policy was ordered by then Interior Secretary Donald Hodel. The resulting report was a muddled exercise in self- contradiction. Its authors confirmed that the ecological results of natural burning are good. But the report contended that "in some cases the social and economic effects ((of natural fires)) may be unacceptable." Translation: the main problem with the fires was not what they did to plant and animal life but what they did to the tourist business...
...spend some $43 million inside park boundaries alone. Says Bill Schilling, executive director of the Wyoming Heritage Foundation, a business-backed lobbying group: "Yellowstone is Wyoming's crown jewel. Tourism was seriously impacted throughout the state." Responding to pressure from business interests in Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, the Interior Department has decreed that this year every fire in Yellowstone started by natural means, as well as by human carelessness, will be strenuously suppressed...
...most notable example was that of James Watt, former Interior Secretary and bete noire of environmentalists everywhere. He got $300,000 to help a developer get 312 units of such housing started in Essex, Md., in 1986. His "minimal" role, according to the report, was "to convince the right people that the projects were good and were needed...
What is this? Where are we? Good question. Technically, we are in American ; Samoa, an "unincorporated territory" of seven tiny volcanic islands administered since 1951 by the U.S. Department of the Interior. Physically, we are midway between Hawaii and Australia, on the only piece of American soil south of the equator, and on the very edge of the international date line (this is one of the last places on earth where the day begins). Officially, we are celebrating Flag Day, the 89th anniversary of the first raising of the Stars and Stripes on this palm-fringed South Sea bubble...
...industry's response was reluctant and myopic, chacterized by stalling techniques, disinformation, and a refusal to pay real attention to damage outside of Prince William Sound," Kelso told the five-member subcommittee of the House Interior Committee...