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Re: Re: [RC] Nature Conservancy and horse trails - FASTGraphic - A. PerezTNC has also come under fire for selling lands donated to them which the doner assumed would be preserved. I am by no means defending these things (I no longer contribute to them), just pointing out that tarring all environmentalist groups as extreme left-wing wackos, as Scott did, is naive. But some people will always dismiss anyone who does not support their views as lesser humans. ---- On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Truman Prevatt (tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: I wouldn't call it liberal. There was a series of articles in the Washington Post a while back on the NC. You might want to check them out at www.washingtonpost.com. Seems they were buying this land with donated funds - with the pledge to keep it "pristine." Then turning around and making money of it by leasing it for oil drilling! They were selling some of it to their board members for their private use. It was quite disgusting. Of course after light was shined on some of these practices they went to the confessional and said we willl never do it agian. It sounded to me like the CEO and the BOD of the NC sould should share the same cell block as the CEO and the BOD of Enron. Truman Heidi Smith wrote:I don't follow all this very closely, so I am not familiar with any lobbying of the NC to ban horses from PUBLIC lands... but if they choose to close trails on Nature Conservancy owned land, it is their perogative, as those are NOT public lands but privately owned lands, and they can do with them as they please.... unless, of course, you don't believe in private property rights, Scott?The problem is that the Nature Conservancy gets the money to BUY these lands both by using false pretenses (Jeannie alluded to this in one of her posts) assuring the donors that the land WILL be in a park-like management system AND they get taxpayer funds to use in buying it in many circumstances. (And it is the liberal congressmen who support giving federal monies to the NC to do this, as they have realized that selling lands to the NC locks it up more thoroughly than what they can do legislatively...) Trying to defend NC on the basis of private property rights is about on par with trying to defend a child molester on the grounds of freedom of expression. Heidi ________________________________________________ Get your own "800" number Voicemail, fax, email, and a lot more http://www.ureach.com/reg/tag =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Ridecamp is a service of Endurance Net, http://www.endurance.net. Information, Policy, Disclaimer: http://www.endurance.net/Ridecamp Subscribe/Unsubscribe http://www.endurance.net/ridecamp/logon.asp Ride Long and Ride Safe!! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
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