About Bruce Babbitt: Bruce Edward Babbitt.
We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.
Well, what I tried to do is simply to get out on the land. And when I came to Washington, I think one of the mistakes we made early on was kind of having an ideological dispute up in the Congress.
What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.
What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.
I'm going to go out and get everybody together and say I think we ought to protect this for generations to come. Now, let's get down to work and walk the land and talk about the conflicts and get everybody involved.
