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If anyone had doubts about Sen. Ken Salazar's commitment to the welfare of public lands, they should have vanished in the wake of news that he will be named Interior secretary in President-elect Barack Obama's Cabinet. Say this much about Salazar: He's qualified for the job. Highly qualified, in fact, both in professional expertise and in life experience. The cowboy hat he often sports in public is of course partly a prop - a down-home Western image never hurts a politician - but it is also a genuine symbol of his roots on the land in the San Luis Valley. Combine that background with his experience as head of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and then as state attorney general, where he dealt with a host of public lands and water issues, and Salazar will take the Interior post with more than enough knowledge to hit the ground running. As senator, Salazar has crafted a mostly deserved reputation as a moderate Democrat, and we hope that perspective carries forward into his new job at Interior. Salazar is known for his deliberate style, assimilating as much information as possible before drawing a conclusion. It's a habit that should serve him - and the nation - well in his important new job....You can here all those folks concerned about Grijalva sighing with relief.
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