I hate to hear it. I thought Nature Conservancy was one of the few environmental groups still worth supporting. So many of the other ones have gone whacko.
They are one of the most corrupt.
They are definetly one of the better groups as land preservation is a primary goal. It's not a cover group for some communist agenda. One of the problems with any national group that has local chapters is that it's easy to hijack to further another agenda. Really I find the best groups are the purely local groups though they are often limited by what they can do by budget. Really, from what I have read, my opinion of them hasn't changed all the much (though I haven't gotten through all the article FOG passed on).