The Nation - News from April 6, 1989
Cy Jamison, a House subcommittee aide and former assistant to ex-Interior Secretary James G. Watt, was nominated to head the Bureau of Land Management, which manages 300 million acres of federal lands in the West and Alaska. Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr. said that with 18 years of experience in natural resources policy making in Congress and in prior jobs with the Interior Department, “Cy Jamison has the qualifications needed to skillfully guide the BLM in the task of managing one-eighth of our country’s land area.” But environmentalists disagreed, saying Jamison had been aligned with forces opposed to creation of new wilderness areas and protection of public lands.
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