Tuesday, September 28, 2010

How $5 million and Wendy Van Asselt helped create the NLCS

Environmental activist Wendy Van Asselt was at the World Resources Institute in 2003 when officials from the Wilderness Society made her an offer she couldn’t refuse. They wanted her to lead a huge project to remove 26 million acres of federal land in the National Landscape Conservation System (NLCS) from oil and gas production, grazing, timber harvesting, mining for strategic minerals, off-road recreation, and providing rural jobs. The Wyss Foundation would fund the new project, thanks to a Wilderness Society board member, Hansjorg Wyss, a Swiss entrepreneur whose net worth was estimated at $6 billion. The Hewlett Foundation would also give $1 million to the project. So, Van Asselt’s new job would be to get Congress to authorize Babbitt’s NCLS and give it a real budget. The graduate of Smith College (economics) and Harvard (master’s in public policy) would soon prove very much up to the challenge...more

4 comments:

Colorblind Justice said...

Awesome post, requiring Congressional attention to eradicate the likes of Van Jones and Wendy Van Asselt from ever doing business with Wash-DC again.
http://wms.cdfe.org/uploads/File/Three-Ron-Arnold-Articles.pdf

Colorblind Justice said...

Awesome post, requiring Congressional attention to eradicate the likes of Van Jones and Wendy Van Asselt from ever doing business with Wash-DC again. http://wms.cdfe.org/uploads/File/Three-Ron-Arnold-Articles.pdf

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