[FreeTally]

It's hilarious when people post Nature Conservancy articles on FR and then act like they're some sort of fanatical envirowhacko group.

They're despised by the envirowhackos because they accept that economic activity should exist, because they pay people for land instead of having the government take it from them, etc.

In deed. But you will not have much luck convincing many people on FR that this is true. Many people think any NGO out there trying to acquire and protect land just "coerces" and "threatens" property owners to go along with their wishes.

[Zon]

Instead of initiating force or threat of force, TNC initiates fraud. More important, government owned land is supposed to be limited to the operation of necessary government. Judicial, legislative and executive buildings and military bases.