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- From: thant@void.esd.sgi.com (Thant Tessman)
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- Subject: Re: Libertarians & the environment
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- Date: 23 Jul 92 15:32:55 GMT
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- In article <spears.47@bobcat.lmc.edu>, spears@bobcat.lmc.edu writes:
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- > While I second the vote for the Nature Conservancy as one of the most
- > successful of environmental organizations, I bet the staff of TNC would
- > agree that their organization would be almost unworkable WITHOUT the help
- > of state and governmental agencies to manage and protect the land after
- > they have acquired it. In almost every instance of land purchase that
- > I've read about (and I'm a member), TNC donates the land to some
- > governmental agency with stipulations about how the land may be used.
- > Without this option, TNC would have to devote a large portion of its
- > budget to property upkeep and protection, and be a far less effective
- > organization than they are today. I don't know about Ducks Unlimited,
- > but I bet they work the same way.
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- I thought that Nature Conservancy gave the land to the government to
- avoid having to pay property taxes. I thought TNC managed and maintained
- the land themselves. In other words, the problem working with the
- government solves is one the government created in the first place.
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- On a related note, in Sunnyvale, California, where I live, there was a
- person who owned a bunch of orchards. This person also owed a bunch of
- property taxes on them, so he(?) attempted to sell a portion of the
- orchards to developers to pay the taxes. All of a sudden the local
- community activists decide that they like the orchards, so they tried to
- quickly change the zoning laws so that nobody could develop on this guy's
- land, which of course made it worthless, which of course meant he
- couldn't pay his taxes. I don't know what eventually happened, but it's
- pretty hard to beat the irony of the situation since the guy had no
- intention of developing the orchards.
-
- thant
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