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"change the entire culture of prescribed fire and to make sure that it doesn't happen again." Bruce Babbitt
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"In recent years the Forest Service and land management agencies have been burning about 2 to 2 1/2 million acres a year with prescribed fires," Bruce Babbitt
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"The causal chain of this fire is quite complex, ... I would liken it to what happens on a mountainside when a rock is dislodged, starts rolling down a hill, pretty soon there are more rocks clattering down the hill ... soon there's an avalanche." Bruce Babbitt
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"The entitlement for more than 100 years has been rock-bottom grazing fees," Bruce Babbitt
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"Stewart Udall, more than any other single person, was responsible for reviving the national commitment to conservation and environmental preservation." Bruce Babbitt
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"It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged." Bruce Babbitt
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"With those mistakes embedded in it, the process began with the agency and participants behind the curve." Bruce Babbitt
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"In the spirit of the Christmas season I'm delivering a gift to the mining industry," Bruce Babbitt
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"Cities in the Wilderness: A New Vision of Land Use in America." Bruce Babbitt
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"Lessons must be learned from this." Bruce Babbitt
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"I'm a student of conservation history and what I see are cycles, ... The trend over time has been a broader level of conservation and concern. But there are peaks and valleys. We had tremendous environmental activism under Theodore Roosevelt, then went through a drought in the '20s. We had another resurgence in conservation interest in the '30s, hit a lull in the '50s, then had a highly active period in the '60s and '70s. We're in one of those down periods again, but I'm as certain as I can be that we're getting to the end of this period and headed toward a new era of conservation and concern." Bruce Babbitt
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"Had those calculations been properly done there would have been a larger background personnel and support, ... With those mistakes embedded in it, the process began with the (Forest Service) agency and participants behind the curve." Bruce Babbitt
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"This is sacred ground, ... Americans come here to learn of their past . . . their heritage. It is our obligation . . . to honor this sacred landscape by preserving it." Bruce Babbitt
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"I think what he will be remembered for most in history is the way he connected with regular people and brought the mystery and beauty of oceans into our personal lives," Bruce Babbitt
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"Efforts to obscure the truth will not and cannot change the facts," Bruce Babbitt
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"I think it represents a spirit of hope for California to find a better balance between agriculture, recreation and the environment," Bruce Babbitt
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"It's a very tough situation, ... We've got two, three more weeks, maybe a month of fire season, and the weather prognosis is not very good." Bruce Babbitt
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"Capt. Jacques-Yves Cousteau has gone to the Silent World this Wednesday, June 25, 1997" Bruce Babbitt
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"We have no choice but to manage these forests to get the fuel loads down. We can't abandon this program. What we've got to do instead is to correct the mistakes," Bruce Babbitt
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"The proposed state non-game wildlife grants mark a real first in national conservation history, ... Never before has Washington offered a dedicated source of federal funding to the states for them to tailor programs benefiting all wildlife." Bruce Babbitt
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"You fought the good fight. You were in it right up to the beginning." Bruce Babbitt
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