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To: Win Smith who wrote (23211)	8/19/2001 9:38:16 PM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 82486

Anybody who's ever looked at a map would smell a rather stinky red herring in the Connecticut thing, but to make it explicit, earlier in the article we have: The secretary is the emperor of the outdoors, in charge of 436 million acres of public land,. . . In case anyone was wondering, the area of Connecticut is 3.1 million acres. Stinky red herring? Tell it to the folks in the NH White Mountains who had an unwanted new "monument" shoved down their throats after being promised their input would matter in making the decision..... JLA

To: Win Smith who wrote (23211)	8/19/2001 9:54:20 PM
From: Lane3	Respond to of 82486

I saw the article on Norton but missed the one on Whitman. Clueless Easterners My sense of the "cluelessness" of Easterners is that they don't understand at all how the Federal lands in the West came to be the personal property of the adjacent communities. I have never yet seen any advocate for the Western perspective try to address that issue with the Easterners, let alone explain it satisfactorily. I think that Norton's point is well taken that Easterners don't often grasp the vastness of Federal lands in the West. That's kind of like ordinary citizens trying to grasp the size of the Federal budget. I'd bet the Whitman would make a fine administrator for the EPA if they'd let her. She would implement the Administration's priorities without scaring the establishment unduly. EnergyStar has been an example of a good Federal program, IMO. Probably because it was done below the political radar. Hope the attention doesn't ruin it. Karen