Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar displays his Get Your Goose On! towel at a Colorado event to broaden awareness of the Service and the Refuge System.?(Credit: Marla Trollan/USFWS)
Department of Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced his plan to step down from his position in March. Salazar will leave the Department of Interior after just over four years of service to return home to his family in Colorado. In his statement on January 16th, Salazar thanked the 70,000 DOI employees for their dedication as custodians of America?s natural and cultural resources. He also took the opportunity to thank President Obama for his friendship while serving as Senators and for honoring him with the opportunity to serve in his cabinet for the past four years.
Since being unanimously confirmed by the Senate in 2009, Secretary Salazar has helped to mark a new era of conservation in the U.S. through implementing community-driven, science-based conservation of ecosystems and landscapes.? The Wildlife Society praised Secretary Salazar for his strong leadership and commitment to protecting America?s wildlife and natural resources. Dr. Winifred Kessler, President of The Wildlife Society, noted, ?throughout his tenure as Secretary, Ken Salazar has worked hard to maintain high standards of scientific integrity and to promote the use of science in programs, decisions, and policies of the Department of Interior.? The Wildlife Society is grateful for those efforts and for Secretary Salazar?s visionary leadership on cross-agency collaboration in support of landscape-scale conservation.??
In particular, many believe his lasting legacy will be his efforts to engage diverse stakeholders in public land management and establishing partnerships with states, localities, and landowners. ?Under his leadership, the DOI established seven new national parks and ten national wildlife refuges, authorized thirty-four solar, wind, and geothermal energy projects on public lands, established the first program for offshore wind leasing, and revamped the DOI?s management of oil and gas resources.
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar at the newly established Valle de Oro National Wildlife Refuge near Albuquerque, NM.
(Credit: Tami Heilemann/DOI)
Secretary Salazar has said he is most proud of improving the federal government?s relationship with American Indians, reforming the oil and gas program, and broadening the clean energy agenda.
Secretary Salazar oversaw the government?s response to the Deepwater Horizon spill, resulting in an overhaul of safety standards for oil and gas development. Since Salazar?s appointment as Secretary, the DOI has undergone the largest overhaul of its oil and gas program in US history, splitting the Minerals Management Service into three independent agencies. Under his direction, the department has new ethics standards and aims to use science-based decisions on where and how to develop oil and gas resources.
Before his role as Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar served as director of Colorado?s Department of Natural Resources, Colorado?s Attorney General, and then represented Colorado as a Senator from 2005 to 2009, sitting on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.? Ken Salazar earned a bachelor?s degree in political science from Colorado College and a law degree from the University of Michigan. Salazar?s decision to step down as Secretary of the Interior follows similar announcements from members of Obama?s first-term cabinet including Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, Treasurer Secretary Tim Geithner, and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa Jackson.
Sources: Department of Interior (January 16, 2013), Denver Post (January 16, 2013), USA Today (January 16, 2013), National Wildlife Refuge Association (January 17, 2013), American Forests (January 17, 2013)
Source: http://news.wildlife.org/wpn/doi-secretary-ken-salazar-to-step-down/
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