Buying land to conserve it is not a recent phenomenon. Buying
Nature chronicles the evolution of land acquisition as a
conservation strategy in the United States since the late 1700s. It
goes beyond the usual focus on conservation successes to provide a
critical assessment of both public and private land acquisition
efforts.The book shows that for more than 200 years, both private
purchasers -- such as the Nature Conservancy and the Trust for
Public Land -- and governmental agencies have acquired land for
conservation. It documents trends of growing complexity in
transactions and a blurring of public and private roles. The
preservation of Mount Vernon and its grounds, for example, began
with a private group -- the Mount Vernon Ladies Association of the
Union -- and continues today with a mosaic of private, state, and
federal actors. The current emphasis on private land trust
acquisitions, the authors argue, may undercut other effective
governmental efforts to preserve the environment and may not be the
best way to meet conservation goals.Buying Nature emphasizes the
accountability issues that arise when the line between public and
private efforts is indistinct. The authors also pay unique
attention to how federal land agencies' individual histories shape
their participation in modern land acquisition transactions. An
unusual mix of scholarship, the book combines political, legal and
constitutional, and economic history with rich case studies of land
conservation and quantitative analyses of acquisitions over time to
provide a new and distinctive perspective on enduring questions of
public policy and environmental protection.
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