Assessing the ruins. (comments of EPA employees about the agency)(includes related articles)

E, June, 1995 by Childs, Craig Leland

A group of male EPA executives on a hiking trip talk about their positions and the agency. They include Policy Office in Strategic Integration Chief Don Patton, financial analyst Jack Bowles and former employee Dennis Marker.

There is quiet discussion of a rare wall of rock art hidden in the canyons of Utah. It is 3,000 years old, or maybe 8,000. It shows painted figures like dreams and ghosts, like nothing found anywhere else. It will take days to reach by foot--there is no other way--in canyons too numerous to count. The men exchange maps and commitments and return to their desks, midway up a Denver skyscraper which houses the Region 8 headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Ties are straightened, papers shuffled and, while the machine rolls...

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