“ If implemented, President George W. Bush could, with the stroke of a pen, protect vast stretches of U.S. territorial waters from fishing, oil exploration and other forms of commercial development. The initiative could also create some of the largest marine reserves in the world — far larger than national parks like Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon.
-NPR
Bush appears to want to do something that people will appreciate him for in the future become “the Teddy Roosevelt of the seas”.