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<text id=89TT0901>
<title>
Apr. 03, 1989: American Notes:Parks
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
Apr. 03, 1989 The College Trap
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<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
NATION, Page 27
American Notes
PARKS
Mott Out, Fund Raisers In
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<p> In four years as director of the National Park Service,
William Mott fought the Reagan Administration's reluctance to
expand the system and spend enough to preserve existing sites
against an ever rising tide of visitors. "Professionals in the
field loved him, but the politicians often ignored him,"
observes Paul Pritchard, head of the National Parks and
Conservation Association. Mott's long career as a respected
outdoorsman and conservationist will end soon with his dismissal
by Manuel Lujan, the new Secretary of Interior. Mott, 79, said
last December that he wanted to keep his job.
</p>
<p> No one would give a reason for the impending firing except
that George Bush and Lujan want their own team. Mott will be
replaced by James Ridenour, director of Indiana's natural
resources department. He was campaign finance chief for Dan
Quayle when the Vice President won election to the Senate in
1980. Ridenour's new boss is expected to be Constance
Harrington, a former attorney at the department and daughter of
a Republican Party fund raiser. She is in line to be named
Assistant Secretary of Fish and Wildlife and Parks. Said a
department employee about Secretary Lujan: "It looks like he is
filling the ranks with folks who brought in the cash."
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