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True, unlike some of their "un-peers" in the media: ".... most of the save-the-planet plugs sprinkled across television these days are the spin wizardry of the Environmental Media Association, a four-person nonprofit company based in Los Angeles. With a Rolodex of more than 10,000 industry contacts—including board members Ted Turner, Michael Eisner, and John Travolta—the EMA is greening Hollywood one script at a time...."
From Greening the Screen; Outside Magazine, June, 2000.
"Conservation programs to reintroduce rare and endangered species are conducted on 11 Turner ranches. The species include the Mexican gray wolf, California condor, Rio Grande chub, Chiricahua leopard frog, bighorn sheep, aplomado falcon, black-tailed prairie dog, black-footed ferret, black bear, Mexican spotted owl and red-cockaded woodpecker."
"He brings endangered species onto his private property — which is his own business — but it does have an impact on his neighbors," said Caren Cowen, executive director of the New Mexico Cattle Growers Association.
"On the one hand he brings in all of these endangered species, but on the other hand they hunt on their ranches. The two don't meet in my mind very well.
"In addition, he gives a lot of money to radical environmentalists who are trying to put us out of business," Miss Cowan said.
(see www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org He's mentioned on slide show, page 10, along with the Pew 'charitable' trust (Pew Charitable Trusts Took a Public Misstep)
I have the newspaper edition of this article. It has several pictures and a map showing "Ted Turner's Empire". It shows the names of his Ranches, how many acres each, when acquired, type of land, enterprises on each, and any ENDANGERED SPECIES on the land. Check out a map of the U.S. He has huge holdings in California, Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida. Although he's had most of these properties, for some years, I was wondering if these states are usually in the red or blue zones (dem or repub, which is which?). After he's re-wilded them, (wildlandsprojectrevealed.org, slide show page 4), will there be anyone left there to vote, anyway?
(Another good article on the Wildlands Project: The Glory of Environmentalism - Re-wilding the United States of America.)
While looking at Outside Magazine for the map of Turner's holdings, I ran across another article about him: Where the Deer and the Zillionaires Play: I didn't want to run into trouble with their copyright department, so let me just repeat one short paragraph from the article: ....."Well, there is one other thing, a rather significant thing: Kendall gets one of the biggest tax write-offs in America. It's called a conservation easement. And while Bruce Babbitt and his cohorts are fanning passions between East and West with a lot of Crossfire bile about grazing fees, this single tax deduction is effectively underwriting the resettling of the West by global capitalists." See The Connection Between 'Em - Wildlands Project and conservation easements