Lynn Scarlett
P. Lynn Scarlett is a leading environmental policy analyst. She was the Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 2005 to 2009, having previously served as the Assistant Secretary of Policy, Management and Budget from 2001 to 2005. Appointed by President George W. Bush, Scarlett was sworn in as Deputy Secretary of the Interior on November 22, 2005. In 2006 she served as acting Secretary of the Interior between the administrations of Gale Norton and Dirk Kempthorne. While at DOI she chaired the federal Wildland Fire Leadership Council (2004–05). She also co-chaired the First Lady's Preserve America Initiative on historic preservation (2003–08). She also chaired DOI's Climate Change Task Force, which examined the effects of climate change on land, water, wildlife and infrastructure. Scarlett convened and chaired the Department's Cooperative Conservation Working Group, and also represented the Department on an interagency cooperative conservation task force that planned and convened the White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation in 2005. In her management capacities, Scarlett served on the President's Management Council and its executive steering committee.
Before joining the administration, Scarlett was President of the Reason Foundation in Los Angeles, California, an organization where she had worked since 1986 as a policy analyst and senior manager. She is now a Visiting Scholar at Resources for the Future. Her policy work focuses on issues pertaining to climate change adaptation, ecosystem services, energy, water, and conservation.
In 2009 she served as a member of the national Commission on Climate and Tropical Forests. She serves on the boards of the American Hiking Society, RESOLVE, the Continental Divide Trail Alliance, and Girls Inc. of Greater Santa Barbara, and is a trustee emeritus of the Udall Foundation.
In 2009, she was elected as Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.
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[edit] About Lynn Scarlett
- An interview with Lynn Scarlett in Grist, an environmental magazine
- Website with links to speeches, articles etc.
[edit] By Lynn Scarlett
- Evolutionary Ecology: A new environmental vision, a 1996 article
- Smogged Down, a 1996 column about air pollution
- Packaging, Recycling, and Solid Waste, a 1997 policy study
- Solid Waste Recycling Costs, a 1995 policy study
- The Last Picture Postcard, a 2001 book review
- "The Poetry of Rachel Carson"
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