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- From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
- Newsgroups: talk.environment,sci.environment,alt.politics.marrou
- Subject: Re: Libertarians & the environment
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- Date: 23 Jul 92 19:08:28 GMT
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- spears@bobcat.lmc.edu (Gene Spears) writes:
- >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.
-
- There's really not a whole lot of upkeep to be done on what they buy -
- in fact that would sort of defeat the purpose, wouldn't it? A TNC
- person told me that the reason they have to give the land back to the
- government is so they don't have to pay the incredibly massive
- property taxes on the land. Government created the problem.
- --
- Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?
-