Natural resources policy in the Bush (ii) Administration: an outsider's somewhat jaundiced assessment.(Natural Resources Policy Under the Bush Administration)

I. INTRODUCTION

The Bush Administration's investiture in office, when combined with conservative Republican direction of both houses of Congres and, increasingly, the federal courts, signaled a propel to the right on public lands and natural resource issues. Security affects in the wake of 9/11 and a decline in the prominence of environmental issues increased the likelihood of change.

level so, conservationists have been taken aback through the breadth and profundity of the administration's attack upon some of their cherished goals. They've been level more confounded by the