The Department of Defense is a good steward of its land, Davis said.

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Though you'd never know it from the media, the Defense Department has been a superb environmental steward of the 25 million acres it manages in the U.S. Given its record in preserving and protecting habitat for more than 300 threatened or endangered species, the Pentagon does as good (or better) an environmental job as the Interior Department or the Forest Service.

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