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TOPIC: Trust For Public Land
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/2fa942a8b694cec4?hl=en
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Date: Thurs, Mar 13 2008 1:22 pm
From: "Edward Frank"
ENTS,
I was reading some reports, available for download as pdf files, on
the Trust For Public Land Website. To get them you need to fill out
a form on this page: http://www.tpl.org/download_landvote07.cfm Then
upon completion of the form it will take you to a page with a list
of downloads:
http://www.tpl.org/download_thank_you_page.cfm?CFID=14144894&CFTOKEN=7c86e6de4bdc7676-A9B9F993-B0D0-E102-D7FDA572FF5C42E6
For people in New England there were a couple reports on Community
Forests in Northern New England, a report on the Rachel Carson
Nationa Wildlife Refuge in Maine, etc. Other reports range from
areas of Texas, to the Bay of Biscayne, to Puget Sound.
Ed
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TOPIC: Trust For Public Land
http://groups.google.com/group/entstrees/browse_thread/thread/2fa942a8b694cec4?hl=en
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Date: Fri, Mar 14 2008 4:36 pm
From: Carolyn Summers
Since I used to work for TPL, I can provide a few facts and opinions
about
the org. TPl has been around about the same time as TNC, and it is
certainly no clone. At the time I worked there (early 90s), one
difference
could be described as political, perhaps coincidence, perhaps not,
but TPL
folks were mostly registered Dems and most TNCers (at least in the
upper
ranks) were mostly Republicans. I donšt know whether that
interesting
demographic still holds true. Both organizations buy land to save it
from
development, which, as we speak, is about the only thing that works
to save
nature. To the credit of TNC, they try to use a scientific approach
to
prioritize acquisitions and they keep and actively manage a large
proportion
of the land they buy. To the credit of TPL, they are more flexible
in their
approach to ecological criteria and they understand better the
importance of
urban wilds. They also work closely with government agencies to
consolidate
protected areas and buy out inholdings on behalf of state and
federal
agencies. There are other, mostly smaller and local, land trusts
that
purchase land for conservation purposes, but these two national orgs
are all
that stand between many rare species and extinction. It is NOT their
mission to advocate or fight for changes in public policy.
While you warriors are out fighting, the land trusts are out there
buying
land and buying you time to win the war. Although I no longer work
for TPL,
I have the greatest respect for both TPL and TNC.
--
Carolyn Summers
63 Ferndale Drive
Hastings-on-Hudson, NY 10706
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