[GreenFreeper]

You didn't read the Washington Post's expose did you?

No, do you have a link for me?

[FOG724]

The Post articles are no longer available from the Post's web site but they can be found. Here is something from the Freedom 21 web site.

In a three-part series, Washington Post Staff Writers Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway detailed questionable practices at the worlds richest environmental group like the following:

• Acquiring raw land, attaching development restrictions, then reselling the properties to supporters at greatly reduced prices.
• Selling ecologically sensitive land at reduced prices to the organization's trustees for use as home sites.
• Conducting land deals that coincide with charitable contributions to the Conservancy from the buyers, who then benefit from significant tax breaks.
• Drilling for oil under the breeding ground of endangered species.
• Buying land from corporations whose executives sat o­n the nonprofit's governing board.
• Accepting cash payments for roughly the amount of a discount that is then written off the buyers' federal income taxes.

[FOG724]

Ok that Freedom 21 web site has links that work to bring up the Post articles. Loads of info there.

[midwyf]

Try www.rangemagazine.com. They have run a number of stories on TNC. I will try to find the edition that had it, but I think it has been a year or more.