U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar is recommending that Congress establish a national historical park to commemorate the top-secret World War II Manhattan Project that developed the atomic bomb. Salazar says the development of the atomic bomb in multiple locations across the United States is an important story and one of the most transformative events in the nation's history. The National Park Service conducted a special resource study on several Manhattan Project sites for possible inclusion in the National Park System. The study was released to Congress this week...more
Congress better hurry. Thanks to Salazar, his predecessors and their ilk it may burn to the ground any day now.
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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