To the editor:
I see that the Nature Conservancy has endorsed the state’s plan to log the last bit of old-growth forest on public land.
I’m not surprised, because the Nature Conservancy is not an environmental advocacy group; they are a land acquisition group. Their chief executive is a former managing director at Goldman Sachs, a Wall Street investment bank. Their board of directors is not made up of ordinary citizens concerned about the environment but executives from the mining and timber industries. The board also includes executives from the oil and gas industry.
Their primary goal is purchasing land, often with the help of government decision-makers. Their land holdings have been valued at just over $3 billion. They own several tracts in Brown County, and although hiking is permitted, hunting is done by permission only, the same as private property. And there is a fee. There is a waiting list and the fee costs more than a state-issued hunting license, considerably more.
I have contributed a lot of money to the Nature Conservancy over the past few decades. Since the corporate takeover of this once-dedicated group of conservationists, those contributions have ceased.
Curt Mayfield, Nashville
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