Ok, I see!!! Between this phony baloney land-grabbing for re-selling to governments at top R.E. Developer prices after intimidating taxpaying landowners into becoming "willing sellers," and the N.R.D.C. who's most notorious attorney Robert Kennedy, Jr. is "EnvironMental Advisor" to Goobernaytor Schwartzensocialist who appoints to this CA Energy Commission... It should be coming as clear to everyone else on this website as it has been to me for over a decade, exactly what's being made to happen right here and a lot of other places too!!!
The Nature Conservancy is another no thank you. I got into that when the group helping the McCloud River became controlled or part of the NC. My eyes got fully opened to NC here on Free Republic during the Klamath River/Lake mess.
I wandered on their website the other day. I found that 5 days before the San Diego wildfires broke out, the Nature Conservancy had acquired another 1350 acres of ranchland to add to their 8,000 acre "Ramona Grasslands Project," paying $11 million for the land, more than 90% of which was from our tax dollars. They were touting the preservation of chaparral, coastal sage brush and others as habitat for "golden eagles, burrowing owls, hawks, black-tailed jack rabbits and bobcats, as well as three endangered animal species – the arroyo toad, Stephens’ kangaroo rat and San Diego fairy shrimp."
This area is in the heart of the Witch Fire, that has burned 200,000 acres and destroyed over 1,000 homes. The chaparral and coastal sage fueled the fire.
The Nature Conservancy put up a Q&A page about the fires on their website. They can't acknowledge that taking productive ranchland and turning it into a largely un-tended area of brush would only fuel a fire and risk the safety of the adjacent homes. Instead, they said: "these fires are also highly correlated with urban development — when natural areas are surrounded by human land use, we see an increase in wildfire ignition." And of course, their solution is to acquire yet more land saying: "we must create a network of conservation reserves that is larger than the largest catastrophic event."
The whole discussion was maddening.