While the spectacle at the national level is not pretty, it simply reflects a couple decades of growing tensions between practices at the federal level versus the much less biocentric aims of programs operatd through state governments. Most state natural resource program -- in fish & wildlife, forestry, and even parks -- lack any clear mandate in the key agency organic acts to place any real emphasis on protecting biodiversity or ecological integrity -- esp. as this regards native plant and animal communities. What you have at the state level is a system cobbled together back in the 1920s and 1930s whose vision -- and whose clientele -- have remained virtually the same for over 50 years. Until these state programs change, then it's hopeless to imagine that you can save the planet from the top down. We need another William Dilg!!
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