Read all about The Nature Conservancy, and how they are quietly buying up as much land as they can get their greedy hands on, in the Spring 2003
Range Magazine Download Nature's Landlord: The story of the world's most powerful environmental group, the Nature Conservancy. (2.1 mg PDF file, requires Acrobat Reader)
I guess there is an unwritten law about leftist whacos criticizing other left crazed whackos. If there was oil exploration on the property, it would be another matter, regardless of how pristine it was kept.