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Gale Norton

(1954) Lawyer United States

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Gale Norton is a lawyer from the United States, best known for 2005 Annual Report : Migratory Bird Conservation Commission.

Quick Facts About Gale Norton

Born: March 11, 1954
Nationality: United States
Profession: Lawyer
Notable works: 2005 Annual Report : Migratory Bird Conservation Commission

About Gale Norton

Gale Ann Norton is an American politician and attorney who served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior under President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2006. A member of the Republican Party, she previously served as the 35th Attorney General of Colorado from 1991 to 1999. Norton was the first woman to hold each of those posts.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Colorado Women's Hall of Fame

Quotes by Gale Norton

I believe strongly that we need to get beyond rhetoric, beyond industry and environmentalists fighting with each other, and seriously solve problems.

Believe

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I started out as a Democrat.

Democrat

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In Washington, there's always an effort to label people.

Effort

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Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.

Environment

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We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships.

Available

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Predators make it much more difficult to find consensus. It's a lot easier to agree about birds and plants than about animals…

Agree

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Dense overgrown forests and rangelands have grown like a cancer. They need to be treated.

Cancer

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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease…

Could

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What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.

Conservation

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I spend a year at the Hoover Institute at Stanford, researching market approaches to air pollution control.

Air

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Why has it seemed that the only way to protect the environment is with heavy-handed government regulation?

Environment

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We also know that China and India, as their economies ramp up, are using more and more energy.

China

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Growing up in Denver, I'm sure it started with loving the Colorado mountains.

Colorado

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The developers, if they decide to move a tortoise, have to pay the long-term costs for enhancing the areas that take care…

Costs

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I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their…

Environment

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Our responsibility for BLM lands is multiple-use, meaning a variety of needs and uses.

Meaning

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I was a little too young to be a hippie.

Hippie

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I think today we recognize that economic activity needs to search for ways to protect the environment.

Activity

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Human beings are going to be relying on natural resources for a long time.

Human beings

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I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.

Conservation

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Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management…

Land

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My schedulers keep getting driven crazy by the fact that they can't fit hikes in my schedule.

Crazy

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We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its…

Air

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Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and…

America

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