[Jagermonster]

Excerpted per rules.

Just because conservatives don't worship gaia doesn't mean they don't go in for good stewardship.

[sparklite2]

The article seems to conflate conservationists with environmentalists. I don’t buy the premise. Conservation is focused, ie, panthers. Environmentalism wants to control inputs, outputs and anything related thereto.

[Jagermonster]

They couldn't help themselves - they had to stick in a sea-level rise comment:

"In the 21st century, the Virginia Chesapeake has experienced sea-level rise of 3 to 5 millimeters per year – a rate that exceeds the global average. The region’s gradually sinking land makes the area “more vulnerable than many other coastal regions,” says the US Geological Survey, causing this rate to likely triple in coming decades." (Emphasis added).

Note the bold - sea level, must, by its physical nature, be the same worldwide. Perhaps that subsiding land may account for the entire measurement?

[wyowolf]

Exactly...habitat destruction is real. Just as EPA wacko over reach is real...

[libertylover]

The whole purpose of conservatives is to conserve the liberties of the Constitution.

[Arthur McGowan]

I remember going out on the Chesapeake Bay on the “Question Mark” in 1956. There was a raw oyster bar on board. I suppose they caught them from the boat.

[Wuli]

The article seems to have one major intention - to bow to the “climate change agenda”.

“In the 21st century, the Virginia Chesapeake has experienced sea-level rise of 3 to 5 millimeters per year – a rate that exceeds the global average.”

This is false and not real science. It comes from uncorrected data that includes data taken from instruments that do not account for subsidence on the Chesapeakes shores; which in many places has been substantial. When corrected for the missing subsidence data, the “sea level rise” is negligible.

[ßuddaßudd]

Rappahannock & Piankatank rivers bump ..

[Svartalfiar]

So I do a lot of corporate events. I’ve noticed (between that and news) that the most effective and useful conservationists tend to be hunters/hunting groups. A real conservative, by nature, believes in proper use of land and maintaining a proper exploit-preserve balance.