We've set aside tens of millions of acres of those northwestern forests for perpetuity. The unemployment rate has gone not up, but down. The economy has gone up.

Babbitt has attracted the ire of some environmentalists and Native American groups for his representation of the Arizona Snowbowl ski resort and its effort to expand the resort and use waste water to make artificial snow. Bruce Edward Babbitt (born June 27 1938) a Democrat served as United States Secretary of the Interior and as the 16th governor of Arizona from 1978 to 1987. Among his proposals was a national sales tax to remedy the then-record budget deficits piled up during the several past administrations.