Gale Norton Secretary of the Interior
The United States secretary of interior designate is Gale Norton. She was appointed that position for one reason, “because she can get the job done with her experience” among other things, George Bush said after her appointed her to his cabinet. Experience she does have, she was a native of Kansas that moved to Colorado in hear early childhood, getting to enjoy the environment of the Rocky Mountain range. In her early professional life, she worked with community groups and businesses with a Law degree from University of Denver, and later became Colorado’s state attorney general. Her first environmental positions came in Washington in the mid 80’s when she started working for the department of agriculture. In the department of interior, (which she heads now) she worked, as Associate Solicitor for conservation and wild life, were she gained significant experience relating to management and preservation of public lands and environmental protection. Then in 1988, Gale moved back to Colorado and served as Colorado’s first female Attorney general. In her term, some of her main issues where, state environmental issues, including environmental clean up. Overall, she has more than 20 years experience on environmental and natural resources issues, which makes President Bush’s appointee a lock right? No, Gale Norton has come over a lot of scrutiny on her environmental concerns, and has proved to be very controversial by many environmental groups. Gale Norton has a very lengthy environmental record, that proves she stands for keeping a healthy environment that is conscious about what needs to be done to progress our environment for the future. Yet, as you will see, many disagree with her promoting businesses decisions before the environment. Norton has also been known as an advocate for big oil companies that environmentalists do not like. Finally, Gale Norton has stood by what she believes in and in her term and in her past. Through all the controversy, Norton is continuing to do her job successfully, working with others to make a difference for the land we live on, as the Secretary of interior design.
As Associate Solicitor for Conservation and Wildlife in the department of interior Norton was responsible for all legal matters involving fish, wildlife service, endangered spices, and national parks. She fought hard to release 90,000 acres to the Big Cyprus National reserve...