[Congressional Record Volume 141, Number 61 (Monday, April 3, 1995)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E755]
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                       FAREWELL TO BLM'S BOB MOORE

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                          HON. DAVID E. SKAGGS

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                          Monday, April 3, 1995
  Mr. SKAGGS. Mr. Speaker, I want to note that this will be the last 
week on the job for one of the most creative and dedicated Federal 
employees with whom I have had the pleasure of working.
  Mr. Bob Moore, who now serves as the Colorado Director for the Bureau 
of Land Management, will retire on Monday after nearly 40 years of 
extraordinary public service.
  In Colorado, as in much of the West, competing opinions on Federal 
land policy tend to be strongly held, and sometimes the people involved 
seem to have little interest in compromise or cooperation. Even in that 
kind of contentious atmosphere, Bob has helped citizens reach consensus 
on outdoor recreation, landscape management, trails and scenic byways, 
grazing, cultural history, and wilderness protection--some of the most 
important issues we face in our part of the country.
  I'm sorry to lose this outstanding, thoughtful, soft-spoken gentleman 
from public service. On behalf of all of us in Colorado, I offer him my 
best wishes in his life's next chapters. Bob exemplifies the dedication 
to an important national mission that characterizes many thousands of 
career civil servants whom we too often disparage as mere bureaucrats.




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