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Conservation Groups in the Market for Forest Land

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“Big River, neighboring Salmon Creek and dozens of other forests across the nation have come on the market in recent years as timber companies shed holdings that are worth more as real estate than as a source of lumber.The trend has spurred a land rush that has conservation groups scrambling to raise money to buy environmentally sensitive tracts in competition with private investors seeking to snap up the land for development.” (Washington Post ^[1], Tuesday)

Another case of environmentalists using the market, not political coercion, to attain their goals.

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“Nature’s Entrepreneurs” ^[2] by L. Anderson and Don Leal

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[1] Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/20/AR2006032001595.html

[2] “Nature’s Entrepreneurs”: http://www.fee.org http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=3689

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