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The Nature Conservancy works to attract NGO and charity funds to implement the UN BioDiversity charters while allowing large corporate entities to buy up rural tracs of land and trade with the BLM for prime real estate.

Example is railroad land in CA which was claimed about 1 -4 sections out of every 36 in California Desert when it was originally surveyed over a century ago by the Railroads.

Railroads still hold the land, but have swung deals with the Nature COnservancy to buy up all tracts in remote areas which were privately held, then swap with the BLM for BLM River front property along the Colorado.

Public disclosure has been kept to a minimum. If you happen to catch a public anouncement in fine print in the back section of a county newspaper, you might become aware of what's happening, but even those 'in the know', frequently aren't cognizant of actual legal events in the proceedings.

BLM Maps differ from county maps delineating ownership and even county tax records in many cases are a bit convoluted.

The real enforcement seems to come from socialist liberal environmental groups after groups like the Nature Conservancy has taken legal actions in procuring the properties. Then sundry environmental groups, Dept of Int, Parks, State, EPA seem to gain interest in finding ad hoc interests in the properties.

Over the years there also seems to be relationships in the Nature Conservancy with financial dealings with foreign interests. Seems as though the paper held on those properties is used as collateral for funds in money markets. Environmental regulations seem to prohibit their use by onshore concerns, yet foreign interests seem to be able to walk in and develop the land for resources with little to no impediment.

IMHO, At best, the Nature Conservancy strikes me as a Monopoly exemplifying the worst level of greed, and at worst , merely one of a number of socialist mechanisms to invade American territory.

I say this after originally believing they were an honorable cause,...it took alot of convincing for me to realize they deserve considerable scrutiny.