Was Bruce Babbitt Right?

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Bruce Babbitt is a conservative who is from what was a conservative state, the prevalent thought at that time was less goverment regulation and less pandering to the extreme left.

Bruce Babbitt a Conservative? As one who was part of the property rights movement at the time... Babbitt was anything but:

Here is a quote from an article on Babbitt's desire to inventory all biological lifeforms on every sq. inch of private and public property in the US during the early 1990s.

http://www.heartland.org/publications/environment%20climate/article/1158/Unfond_memories_of_Bruce_Babbitt.html



...Babbitt's attempt to establish an ecological empire was sidetracked in October 1993 by the House of Representatives. They were bothered by one of the proposed Survey's goals: to curtail human activities on private property, as well as on public lands. Members of Congress worried the Survey would allow hundreds of plant and animal species to be deemed "endangered," and that private property would be classified as "critical habitat" where human activities could be greatly restricted.

Babbitt (in a Rolling Stones interview) compared property ownership to slavery and said he wanted "a new land ethic that would be about discarding the concept of property." ...
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Just because many folks (including me) considered him an enemy of property rights... does not mean he did not have a valid point about "process"