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A New Year needs a new conservation movement

By Gregg Patterson

Friday, January 4, 2008

The Conservation Movement needs to reinvent itself. It's time for the new Conservation Movement if we are to stem the tide of critical habitat loss. The original movement, whose idea was birthed by Thoreau, energized in adolescence by Theodore Roosevelt, matured with the essays of Aldo Leopold and called to action in its prime by Rachel Carson is on its deathbed. "Despite nearly a century of propaganda, conservation still proceeds at a snail's pace; progress still consists largely of letterhead ...

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