“Under the guise of practicing conservation, land trusts—operating with little, if any, oversight—are becoming states within a state,” said Bonner Cohen, a senior fellow at the National Center for Public Policy Research, adding:
Lording over millions of acres throughout the U.S., they have learned that they can harass property owners and force them into prohibitively expensive litigation with impunity.
““By boasting about all the land it has ‘saved’…“the PEC can receive millions of dollars in government grants and it can hustle donors to write even bigger checks to the green money machine.”
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