Pat Williams
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Pat Williams is a former Democratic member of Congress from Montana, now with the Center for the Rocky Mountain West in Missoula, Mont. He is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News.
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How the West Was Won ... Back
Land-rich regions' residents tell hungry politicians to back off 3
Posted 3 years, 10 months agoIt is difficult to recognize change while living through it. However, two recent decisions involving the use of the public's lands signal a historic political and policy transition, particularly here in the Rocky Mountain West. The first of those two is the almost unanimous rejection by Western governors of the Bush administration's multiyear attempt to punch roads into the last remaining wild lands here in the Rockies. The second is the public's outrage at the year-end congressional attempt to sell massive amounts of our commonly held land.
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