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The Administration's new conservation policies got off to a false start with its on-again-off-again effort to raise the fees businesses pay for such activities as mining and cattle grazing on federal land. Those proposals were originally part of Clinton's budget plan, but the President backed...
The major point of At the Hand of Man is that conservation efforts must take account of human needs. He presents this as a novel idea, although the phrase "sustainable development" has been a mantra for international environmental organizations for two decades. Still, the best part of the book consists...
Now, however, scientists are beginning to acknowledge that theories of sustainable use and development almost never work in practice. "What we are seeing is that conservation and development are not the same process," says the Wildlife Conservation Society's John Robinson, a leading revisionist on sustainable use. "If you are...
As gardens become extensions of the natural world, the gardeners who tend them inevitably see themselves as caretakers of a precious and endangered heritage. "In the U.S.," estimates Donald Falk, director of the Center for Plant Conservation in St. Louis, Missouri, "we have around 20,000 kinds of native plants...
The National Gallery's director, Earl ("Rusty") Powell III, who took over from Carter Brown in 1992, categorically denies that the show was rushed: "The pictures that have been chosen were very carefully reviewed by a conservation committee. Some were rejected because their condition was fragile. There has been no...