re: I'm convinced the "public" and the "government" can't conserve anything.

quote:

---

This fetishization of "wilderness" is one of my biggest pet peeves around.

---

In what way?

quote:

---

THis is more important than Chem-trails.

---

That and chemtrails don't fricking exist.

You're welcome, everyone!

So what's the real question?

Nevermind, I see the real question:

My uncle and I are looking for a conservation property to buy right now. It will have a conservation easement established on it shortly after we acquire it.

You want to buy land and use easements to your advantage.

quote:

---

Sounds like Waldo fricked it up for everyone. Why did he sell out to the man?

---

He said that he could not divide up his property fairly among his kids. I have wondered why he did not set up some kind of trust.

quote:

---

I want (my uncle has somewhat different requirements) a property with "topography" (canyons, mountains, etc.), trees, live water with fish, large places around it with conservation easements (so you don't have some development pop up nearby).

---

Are resident Bigfoots a problem?

quote:

---

Don't ever plan to develop it then. Never, ever buy land the govt considers wetlands. You cant even do things to protect it from erosion without their approval.

---

Our family land is far from the wetlands area (I think).

This is why private ownership beats government ownership every time.

You're on your way to being red pilled

quote:

---

For example, places like the Amazon don't need to become tourist traps. We destroy everthing we enter, as a general rule.

---

Fortunately the Amazon basin is still so huge that tourism makes almost no impact on it. But yeah, HUGE tracts need to be off limits. There will still be plenty for tourists.

I've been able to visit some really great places that are still pristine. And I always think of a quote by David Foster Wallace. These trips weren't "mass tourism" but he wasn't wrong, to be honest.

“To be a mass tourist, for me, is to become a pure late-date American: alien, ignorant, greedy for something you cannot ever have, disappointed in a way you can never admit. It is to spoil, by way of sheer ontology, the very unspoiledness you are there to experience, It is to impose yourself on places that in all non-economic ways would be better, realer, without you. It is, in lines and gridlock and transaction after transaction, to confront a dimension of yourself that is as inescapable as it is painful: As a tourist, you become economically significant but existentially loathsome, an insect on a dead thing.”