"Republican environmental
advocacy requires challenging
false truths, often cloaked in the
compelling but false rhetoric
of economic development.

But these battles are not new to
environmental Republicans.
Teddy Roosevelt faced down
enormous political pressure
in order to save the
Grand Canyon from development
and to set aside millions of acres
for the national forest system.

Indeed, Roosevelt's example
presents a good case of how
the "economy versus the
environment" argument is turned
upside down when considered
through the prism of true
conservative values—objective
economic analysis and
abiding concern for future
generations.

After all, who could
dispute the economic, much less
aesthetic, wisdom of Roosevelt's
actions 100 years ago?"

— from an op-ed published by
Colorado REP John Hereford
in the Denver Post
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