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>
> Lordy.
>
> In all of the world, the Nature Conservancy has to be one of the
> really good guys. Land swapping in the name of conservancy goes on
> all of the time, even within the government. What was once USFS land
> sometimes becomes BLM land, and what was once BLM land is sold to
> private interests in return for more ecologically sensitive land.

It is not that I am against land swapping or trading up, it's that I like to
give to the end user and not the broker.  It fails my requirement that the
group has ownership because they generally take better care of the land.  I
generally don't see government a good owner - not because of any inherent
distrust - but because the owners change with elections and the goals may
change.

> But to answer your question about finding another group, Conservation
> International is another exceptionally worthy group, but it too goes
> about its business as quiety as possible. I've always been impressed
> with the notion that most movie actors are empty vessels, having
> virtually no personality or intelligence of their own and cannot form
> a coherent sentence of their own if it weren't written for them. But
> that's not true of Harrison Ford. I'm greatly impressed with his
> intelligence, his acumen and his knowledge of conservation issues.

Thanks Wirt, I will check this out.  Like many others who give money to any
organization, I like to know where the money goes and that it is used for
the purposes I gave it.  (I'd rather give to the Boys and Girls club than
the United Way for example.)

Kindest regards,

Mark W.

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