Chris Carlson

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Name: Chris Carlson
Date registered: April 27, 2011

Biography

Chris Carlson served as the Director of the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Office of Public Affairs under President Jimmy Carter. His relationship with Cecil Andrus was forged during the Andrus’s first terms as governor. Mr. Carlson has dedicated his 40-year career to public policy, political education, and journalism. Chris is a retired founder of Gallatin Public Affairs and currently sits on the Board of Directors for the Andrus Center. In addition to his Andrus Center work, Mr. Carlson writes a weekly column for the St. Maries Gazette-Record newspaper.

Latest posts

  1. Remembering Hatfield — August 12, 2011
  2. Western Water — June 15, 2011
  3. A Better Way? — May 16, 2011
  4. The Park Service and Alaska — April 28, 2011
  5. Teton Dam — April 25, 2011

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  1. Teton Dam — 3 comments
  2. The Park Service and Alaska — 1 comment
  3. A Better Way? — 1 comment
  4. Western Water — 1 comment
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Aug 12

Remembering Hatfield

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The Shield of Moral Rectitude Earlier this month one of the true senatorial “statesman” from the Pacific Northwest states, former five-term senator and two-term governor from Oregon, 89-year-old Mark O.  Hatfield, was laid to rest.  By definition, a “statesman” is one who rises above petty partisan interests, is an independent thinker who puts the best …

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Jun 15

Western Water

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It’s All About Water, Stupid! With apologies to James Carville, the political consultant who came up with Bill Clinton’s campaign mantra – “it’s the economy, stupid,” the future in the American west is all about water, its allocation, its cost and its rapid depletion. Scientists, naturalists, writers, farmers and ranchers, politicians are all too aware …

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May 16

A Better Way?

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A Department of Natural Resources? Interior Secretary Ken Salazar was in Boise during the Easter week congressional recess.  During his visit he spent part of a day touring the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC) at the Boise Airport. the air arm of joint Bureau of Land Management/Forest Service efforts to combat wildfires. NIFC is an example …

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Apr 28

The Park Service and Alaska

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Former Idaho Gov. Cecil D. Andrus’s uncanny ability to look over the horizon and see how the future might unfold is one of the many hallmarks that make him such a unique figure not just on Idaho’s landscape, but the nation’s. A reminder of this occurred recently in Alaska in a piece by writer Craig Medred. Craig was writing in the Alaska Dispatch about a trial in Fairbanks.

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Apr 25

Teton Dam

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Bureau of Reclamation

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To rebuild or not to rebuild?

A couple days after the Teton Dam catastrophically collapsed in eastern Idaho on June 5th, 1976, causing the deaths of 11 people, millions of dollars in damages as well as displacing hundreds from their homes and ruining thousands of acres of productive cropland, Gov. Cecil D. Andrus flew into Rexburg in a National Guard helicopter.

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