THIS LAND IS WHOSE LAND?

FROM OUT OF THE WEST COMES A STRIKE FORCE OF CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS WHO THINK NATURAL RESOURCES OUGHT TO BE EXPLOITED, NOT CODDLED

IF REPRESENTATIVE DON YOUNG OF Alaska ever decides to raise some extra income, he can always lease out his Capitol Hill office as a wildlife museum. A former trapper and riverboat captain, he works surrounded by his trophies: the heads of a ram and a wild boar, mounted moose horns and the prime exhibit, a towering Kodiak bear that he bagged on a hunting trip back home. You could say he was a man with a hands-on appreciation of nature. Or you could say he's a guy who prefers his wildlife dead.

Which description better suits him is a hot issue...

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