WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt is blasting as "radical" a Republican proposal to open up more than 50 million acres of public lands to logging and other development.
Babbitt, who was Interior secretary for eight years under President Bill Clinton, said the GOP bill would virtually repeal the 1964 Wilderness Act and open an area the size of Wyoming to development.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., "is the most radical, overreaching attempt to dismantle the architecture of our public land laws that has been proposed in my lifetime," Babbitt said Tuesday at a House hearing on the bill.
"Simply put, it trades protection of …
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