Gale Norton — American Public Servant born on March 11, 1954,

Gale Ann Norton served as the 48th United States Secretary of the Interior from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush. She was the first woman to hold the position... (wikipedia)

What's near and dear to my heart is cooperative conservation.
Local innovation and initiative can help us better understand how to protect our environment.
Especially with the predators, one of the things that gets these programs going on a local level is for our land management agencies to build partnerships with surrounding communities and landowners.
I think the greatest challenge in environmentalism and the most rewarding challenge is trying to figure out how humans can meet their needs while protecting the environment.
I think that our cooperative conservation approaches get people to sit down and grapple with problem solving.