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Having just celebrated the beginning of a new year, we also now embark on a new decade. Perhaps this is a good time to take stock of how land conservation is faring.
The words of that great Republican conservationist Theodore Roosevelt provide a good yardstick to measure our present situation. He wrote close to a century ago that, "The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, not impaired, in value."
