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If it's unpopular and probably not going to pass in congress. If the overly funded branches of gov are taking heat. Why not fund an "ORG" just out the side door to buy property that butts up to existing wilderness in large chunks? Seems like another way to get the claws and over reaching tentacles to add more control. Maybe they will just want money for accessing their property at first.
I havent heard of this ^. Just had dinner the other night with a guy that works for the TNC and he didnt have much to say as far as them buying up large tracts of land across the west. As far as most nature conservancy operations that I know about, they are trying to run cattle.
The Nature Conservancy can go to hell as far as I'm concerned. They are currently buying up ranches south of my hometown of Malta, MT, (for far above what anyone in that area can afford to pay for them) that border the Missouri River Breaks National Monument. Their goal is to have free ranging buffalo in the whole northeastern corner of the state. None of the locals want them there, but because they are technically a private group nothing can be done about it.
There was such a local uprising about it and concern that the BLM was going to go in with them and let the buffalo roam on the public land that Obama's dog, Interior Secretary Ken Salizar, paid a personal visit to Malta for a public meeting that packed the high school gymnasium with everyone in the county. He tried to tell everyone that there are no "current" plans for the government to re-release free-roaming buffalo and smooth talk the situation. Well in short, the people in attendance were not having it and I'm amazed he got out of there without being lynched. Now 2 years later, the state is putting together its bison management plan for free-roaming bison.
Dan Rather did a special on the Nature Conservancy and their plans up there, and "all we want is to have free roaming animals as far as the eye can see" as they are on top of a knoll where you can see for 150 miles each direction. They claim they are paying fair market price for land. It may be fair market back east, but it sure as hell isn't out here.
They may be private neighbors, but they are the kind of neighbors you don't want around.
you are talking of the APF american prairie foundation, they take lobbyist money and big corp donations to buy up land to make the "american serengty" bullchit land grab exactly
the nature conservancy only has the matador next to my home place