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You 2 guys crack me up...I'm glad you are on this forum. I really mean that...I don't agree with nearly anything you say, but you both have so damn many one-liners that you add here and there I can't help but crack a smile
"The Nature ConservancyThen there’s the real estate. TNC say it owns or has under conservation easement 1,177,000 acres in its private preserve system. Good. TNC also says it has protected 10.5 million acres in the United States. Good. If they own only 1.17 million of that 10.5 million, what happened to the other 9.3 million acres?They sold a lot of it to the government.Whoa.The Nature Conservancy bought private land from private owners who thought it would remain in private hands and sold it to the government?Yep.Isn’t that illegal?Nope.The government asks them to do it some of the time.A letter from the Deputy Regional Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to the Nature Conservancy dated August 30, 1985, reveals a long-standing government agreement for TNC to buy private land: "We are appreciative of The Nature Conservancy’s continuing effort to assist the Service in the acquisition of lands for the Connecticut Coastal National Wildlife Refuge."In this and numerous other letters, the government clearly agrees to pay TNC "in excess of the approved appraisal value."Similar agreements for the federal government to buy TNC property at top-dollar prices exist all over the nation.One federal officer who conducted such excess-cost purchases, Robert Miller, a chief of the realty division of the USFWS, was later hired by TNC at a high salary.The Nature Conservancy is a conduit for the nationalization of private property. Nearly ten million acres so far."So.... you're complaining that TNC is helping the feds pick up land that hunters can access??? I'm not sure why this is a problem. The feds suck at real estate transfers and get bogged down in a hurry. Having a conduit to transfer land into larger protected, connected pieces of habitat is helpful.This is more copy and paste crap from some other wood tick board that you clog up and it bogs down HuntWa... it's all you do. Public land is good for hunters.
No- I think the feds and states buying ground is to protect habitat from development. Hunting and access to public lands are a benefit of that purchase, so is having wildlife to hunt and enjoy.
The Nature Conservancy is not a "radical" environmental group. They do a lot to protect critical wildlife habitat from development. Much of the land they purchase ends up being transferred to public ownership, and that's a great benefit to hunters. The Nature Conservancy even allows hunting on some of their properties. So they are not the "radical" group you think they are. Do some more research.
Quote from: WAcoyotehunter on September 02, 2014, 09:51:42 AMNo- I think the feds and states buying ground is to protect habitat from development. Hunting and access to public lands are a benefit of that purchase, so is having wildlife to hunt and enjoy. It is absurd to me that someone on a hunting forum full of a lot of public land hunters would be posting drivel about how fish and wildlife agencies buying land to protect hunting access and wildlife habitat is a bad thing.