Environmentalists happy with Obama; industry less so

WASHINGTON

In the nearly four months since taking office, the Obama administration has moved quickly, relentlessly and without apology to roll back the natural resource and public lands policies of its predecessor. Though they have yet to lay out their own vision in detail, Salazar and other administration officials have left no doubt that they consider the Bush approach misguided and unfairly weighted toward timber, mining, oil and other interests.

“We have had some rough years,” Forest Service chief Gail Kimbell , a holdover from the Bush administration and a “green suiter” who came up through the ranks of her agency, said in earlier testimony before the interior appropriations subcommittee.

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