woot-woot...there have been some wonderful examples of large scale land conservation happening in the past month. in florida the state has made a bid to buy property from big sugar to work on protecting the everglades, a group of conservation organizations have made agreements to buy and conserve property in montana over the next few years, and in in ontario a huge swath of borel forest will be protected. i appreciate land conservation on any scale, a few acres can make a big difference to a community in the right place, but there is something so impressive about the large scale projects. partially because the large parcels of private land are becoming fewer and farther in between, and partially because, once in a while, conservationists can actually apply some of the theories behind landscape scale ecology...looking at ecosystem level projects. these opportunities come up rarely, and will get rarer as time goes on, so i am excited to see large scale conservation happening, right now, and those further down the line will hopefully get to appreciate and benefit from the foresight of those making these landscape scale projects happen.
(of course, i also recognize that some of these projects, especially those with the various logging companies are only happening because of the recent economic downturn-lowered real estate values-decreased housing market-decreased new construction...thus a hurting logging industry... but it's a great opportunity for conservation, we've got to take advantage of these situations as they come up!)
The Canadian Press: Ont. premier pledges to preserve giant swath of northern boreal forest
Florida to Buy Sugar Maker in Bid to Restore Everglades - NYTimes.com
Rocky Mountain land deal tops $500 million - Environment- msnbc.com
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