Look, this job has always been a crucible of conflict.

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The Northwest is in better shape than it was eight years ago.

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It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

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What I finally did in 1995 was I said, I'm going to get out of this town and I'm going to go out West.

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No kidding. That's really true. You're paying your own bills through this. It's not a pleasant experience.

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I grew up in the West, grew up on the land, was educated as a geologist. And I came here with a vision of what it is we ought to be doing.

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What we've proven is that you can protect the environment, use it wisely and grow the economy and that there is no conflict between the two.

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We have an obligation to live in harmony with creation, with our capital... with God's creation. And we need to administer and work that very carefully.

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Obviously I wouldn't have said that three or four years ago in the midst of it. But I really believe that. It's been a marvelous and important experience.

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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.

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