“(This “study” was backed by ‘The Nature Conservancy’ another bunch of grifters if you ask me!)”
In what way? Seems to me they do exactly what we would want — work with private industry and landowners to save important areas voluntarily. No government takeovers. I regularly hike in a couple of their local preserves. Gorgeous places.
Land grabbers annoy me to no end. And they’re 100% on the Global Warming Boondoggle Bandwagon, too.
There are 35 million acres in Wisconsin, alone. Less than 1 million of those acres are developed in any way...but that’s not good enough. They want more land preserved. No growth for communities, no jobs, no progress, etc. (It’s not just the NC, it’s many smaller EnviroWacko groups in WI and other states as well.)
Here’s their (NC) new ideas for making cash off of GW to grab more land “for the common good.”
It’s turning conservation on its head,” said Bill Stanley, who directs the global climate change initiative at the Nature Conservancy. He said the organization has a goal to protect 10 percent of major habitat types — like grasslands, forests and freshwater systems — by 2015.
“We are not sure exactly how to treat this yet,” Mr. Stanley said. “Areas that we preserved as grasslands are going to become forests. Does this mean we are going to have to have more than enough forest and less grassland than we had before? Or does it mean we should fight it — try to keep the forest from coming into those grasslands? Or should we try to find new areas that are least likely to change, that seem to be the least susceptible to change, and prioritize those areas?”
As Dr. Hamilton put it, “Our whole strategy is going to have to shift.”