Senior Fellow David Hayes, writing for the San Jose Mercury News:

An important development in the conservation world has gone largely unnoticed. It shouldn't have. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell issued a directive that embraced a "landscape-scale" approach to mitigating the environmental impacts of major highway, water, energy and other infrastructure development projects. This is a big idea that deserves notice, and the support of developers and the environmental community alike.

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