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

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I like conservation easements which don't allow public access.

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They are fine with me too. I live on property next to a national wildlife refuge. Almost half of it is conservation easement and I can't do anything with it. That's fine with me, I knew that when I bought. And I also don't want people people on my property; though I have to run off the poachers occasionally.

I do have a huge problem with the government seizing private property from existing owners by declaring it to be protected wetlands under absurd "navigable waters" laws. That is simply theft.

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

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If half this country is going to scream at the sky over imaginary things like AGW I have no problem with a handful of people who want to do something that actually conserves the environment.