Another local conservationist adds his voice to a growing chorus of activists on the ground who are learning first hand the consequences to wildlife and wild places when a particular model of conservation sets its backdrop of hand-picked participants at a table, satisfied with quid pro quos rather than strict adherence to the law.
Gary Macfarlane writes of the looming process of “collaborative” land management in the Clearwater :
Collaboration on the Clearwater – via Counterpunch
A reminder of what appears to be the point of these exercises ~ access and capital to play politics : An Open Letter to the Conservation Community Calling for a Moratorium on Damaging Public Land & Wilderness Legislation 9/12/06 – Read the letter
signed by over 80 local & regional conservation groups.
Brian Ertz
