Yes, it is true that resident Taft’s secretary of the interior, Richard A. Ballinger, disapproved of conservationist controls of western lands.
From 1904 to 1906, Richard Achilles Ballinger served as mayor of Seattle, Washington. From 1907 to 1908, he served as commissioner of the General Land Office. From 1909 to 1911, he served as secretary of the interior of the United States.
Ballinger disagreed with the control that environmentalists had over western areas. He sanctioned the sale of many million acres of coal-rich property in Alaska to Seattle companies and removed one million acres of forest and mining lands from the list of reserved lands.
Thus, he disapproved the conservation of that area in accordance with the environmentalist.
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