Many of Jewell’s formative experiences took place outside the classroom,
beginning, she says, with a two-week camping trip when she was 9. “For
each week we had different graduate students that taught us about
nature,” she says. “The first week was about the trees and fauna of the
Pacific Northwest. The second week was about meteorology and archeology
and a little bit of entomology. So from a very young age I got a dose of
not just being out in nature but getting to understand nature.” At 15
she made her first attempt to climb Mount Rainier, the 14,409-foot
glaciated volcano visible from Seattle. In 1971, Jewell’s team found
itself in a whiteout, keeping her from reaching the summit. She made it
on her next try and has since topped out seven times. (She’s surely
capable of an eighth: In D.C., she’s known to take the stairs to her
sixth-floor office, even multiple times per day.)...more
The article mentions two items high on her agenda. First is reauthorizing the Land and Water Conservation Fund so the gov't may acquire more land. Discussions are happening in DC with R's and D's for new language. Second is to reform oil and gas permitting so that "industry gets
permission faster, while underwriting environmental impact evaluations
and inspections Interior can’t afford."
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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