Editing Bruce Babbitt (section)

==Post-political life==
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[[File:Bruce Babbitt and Ken Salazar.jpg|right|thumb|Babbitt with then–Secretary of the Interior [[Ken Salazar]] at the department's headquarters in Washington, D.C.]]

Babbitt took a job as chief counsel of the environmental litigation department of [[Latham & Watkins]], an international [[law firm]], after leaving the Department of the Interior. During his time at Latham & Watkins, Babbitt offended many environmentalists by taking on two clients trying to build large developments near the coastline. Babbitt defended both projects, one on [[Hearst Communications|Hearst Corporation]] land in central California and the other on the [[Ahmanson Ranch]] north of Los Angeles.<ref name="NYTHEARST">{{cite news |last=Sterngold |first=James |date=13 March 2002 |title=Former Interior Secretary to Develop Water Projects in the Middle East |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/13/us/former-interior-secretary-to-develop-water-projects-in-the-middle-east.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=26 November 2017}}</ref>

Babbitt has attracted the ire of some environmentalists and Native American groups for his representation of the [[Arizona Snowbowl]] ski resort and its effort to expand the resort and use waste water to make [[artificial snow]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.savethepeaks.org/babbitt.html |title=Can anyone really trust Bruce Babbitt? |access-date=2007-07-02 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060929110349/http://www.savethepeaks.org/babbitt.html |archive-date=2006-09-29 |publisher=Savethepeaks.org}}</ref>

He serves as [[trustee]] of the [[World Wildlife Fund]] Secretariat Trustees in the U.S., and was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations until 2012.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=B |title=Membership Roster – Council on Foreign Relations |date=6 January 2012 |access-date=15 September 2016 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120106033256/http://www.cfr.org/about/membership/roster.html?letter=B |archive-date=6 January 2012 }}</ref> He has also served on the Board of Directors since 2009 for the [[Amazon Conservation Association]], whose mission is to conserve the biological diversity of the Amazon.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amazonconservation.org/index.html|title=Amazon Conservation Association|access-date=2018-04-17|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120306090953/http://www.amazonconservation.org/index.html|archive-date=2012-03-06|url-status=dead}}</ref> Babbitt is also a member of the ReFormers Caucus of [[Issue One]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.issueone.org/reformers/|title=ReFormers Caucus|website=Issue One|language=en|access-date=2018-04-18}}</ref>