This guy needs to do an article on fellow Freeper "Carry_Okie" after reading his brilliant new book! It answers all the questions raised in this article and a whole lot more!

Ernest, could you index this in your famous way?

Massive Multiple Recipient Bump for "Radical EnvironMentalCase Group Awareness!"

This announcement is very big, and it bothers me:

"McCormick plans to…Shift its emphasis from buying land to protecting ecological regions… Custodial maintenance is an Achilles' heel for us,""

Purchasing land and then preserving it is the noblest thing that environmental groups have done because it respects property rights. Now it's over, and I can only guess at what's to take its place.

I remember a story about how someone donated a huge tract of land to the conservancy only to have it sold to developers and the conservancy built a 20 million dollar headquarters with the cash. That should be a crime. Custodial maintenance was the reason people respected this group and gave donations.

They're embarking a campaign to betray all those that donated land for its preservation. Now they'll sell it and use it for lobbying of some sort, for short term political gain. I guess costodial maintenance was just too slow, boring and un-sexy for these guys.

Screw 'em.

I don't see anything radical about McCormick at all. In fact, I'm quite pleased that the Nature Conservancy has at it's helm a steward embracing hunters and anglers, as well as their contributions to conservancy.

I personally have been quite offended by the radical left and their hijacking of conservancy. These zealots and communists think that they invented stewardship of the land. Wrong. This is good news and a step in the right direction.

Lord, these EFFing communist nature worshippers make me want to puke. They need to be the second group stood up against the wall right after most of academia. Tyrants in disguise.

I read the first paragraph and stopped. I have been locked out of duck hunting because I don't 10 or 20 thousand dollars to hunt ducks on some private ranch because more and more land is being locked up.

" I don't see anything radical about McCormick at all."

But there's something meant by "Shift emphasis from buying land to protecting ecological regions" that's so completely unstated that it appears concealed.

I don't know this group well and I know nothing of him, but I don't trust the sportsman bit. It looks to made for public consumption, like Clinton's sax playing.

And good people donated their land to this group expecting it to be preserved forever, not traded for junkets to exotic places where environmentalist can hobnob and network with the local fellow travelers.

Yes, it is somewhat unstated, but his intent seems to be revealed in this statement:

He wants new yardsticks for success based not on money raised or acres protected but on biological diversity saved.

The emphasis seems to be drawing away from fundraising and purchasing property to strategic acquisition.I see your point regarding those who donated their land to conservation, but I see no short term political gain or other devious strategy at work here. Let's just wait and see.

"Screw 'em."

I generally agree with your sentiment due to having developed a deep and abiding distrust of their past money grubing and power grabing tactics.

Interestingly, as I read the article aloud to Mrs. Wasp, who has shared our intense sentiment, she wondered aloud if maybe, folks like General Norman Schwartzkauf who joined their board of directors right after the gulf war, Ed Hastey (quoted in the article) who we know fairly well and even Rush Limbaugh who has made major contributions, are finally having an effect.

I don't know if Ted Nugent has been involved, but I do know that Ducks Unlimited probably has had influence on this new President. It was probably one of their duck blinds he was using in Marysville during the making of this article!

Rush once said it would be a good idea to "export liberalism, especially liberal environmentalism!" He implied it might even help with the trade imbalance. So I wonder, if maybe, they are shifting from trying to equalize the USA with the rest of the third world, to equalize the misery, worldwide.

I'm so jaded by the leftist control of the EnvironMentalCase Communityism that I'm certainly not getting my hopes up! My hopes are now vested in the Carry_Okie paradigm at www.naturalprocess.net!!!

"Lord, these EFFing communist nature worshippers make me want to puke."

I know!!! They're like the American Pagan Taliban, aren't they? Liberal Luddites!!!

"Let's just wait and see."

No Way!!! We've been there and done that!!!

What have we seen while we waited? A monsterous shift in this nation to nationalize and/or Statize more and more private property.

Now I ask you Roebucks... which is cleaner and better cared for: A. Public Restrooms, or B. Private Sector Restrooms?

I've waited and I've seen and I've grumbled and fussed and fretted. Then I finally did something about it, but they're so powerful and arrogant and self-righteous that it did me no good and I busted my pick trying to crack their rock!

You can rationalize their irrational agenda all you want, but it's time the corrupt government/NGO complex be broken up and dispensed with before all our natural land resources are owned and controlled by government which represents all wealth. You know what that's called don't you?

Could it be National Socialism???

You forgot end rant. LOL. Of course, I'm with you on stopping the NGO, etc... But, this guy says he's a hunter. Do you know any environmentalist of today who would actually pick up a gun and shoot a duck????? If he's a dweeb and a liar, time will tell shortly. Land grabbers of all time???? That's a stretch at this juncture.

Now, I just read your post 11. That, I will agree with verbatim. But, regarding this guy's motivation.... I think one article is insufficient to judge.

"Land grabbers of all time???? That's a stretch at this juncture."

What does it mean to you when the article says:

With 3,000 employees and annual contributions ($445 million last year) that dwarf all other environmental groups, the Conservancy has long been the subject of kudos and criticism. To devotees, it is the epitome of innovation and success. But to detractors, it is an elite, arrogant, corporate- and government-funded nature club unwilling to tackle tough issues.

Furthermore:

It owns or leases about 5 million acres in the United States and has protected millions more.

I'm not stretchin anything! Aren't you being oblivious to the obvious? And that Hunter/Angler thing... Ducks Unlimited has become nothing but the same thing as most of the other fund raising, litigating for tax dollars, money grubbing, government infiltrating, special interest lobbying, influence peddling, militant EnvironMentalCase, Born Again Pagan, Socialist/Communistic, Misanthropist organizations!!!

Besides, you haven't seen anything even close to one of my many magnificent RANTS!!! You haven't even gotten my goat, yet, cause you can't figure out where I've tied it!!!

"...your post 11. That, I will agree with verbatim."

Great! Would you check out the web-site URL? Highlight it, copy it and drop it in your browser location window and enjoy the birth of a REAL environmental movement. Not just the "Vowell Movement" we've been tormented with since the 1970's in response to the look back from the moon landing.

"on some private ranch because more and more land is being locked up."

You're not saying you'd prefer it be a publically owned ranch, are you?

Ernest, could you index this in your famous way?

I knew there was a reason I needed to check in. LOL!

Where we putting this one?

Hope this is what you had in mind!

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