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There is an adage in politics
that if you get attacked from both sides, you must be doing something right. Just look at The Nature Conservancy, the huge nonprofit conservation organization that has over the past half century played a key role in saving some 115 million acres of woodland, watersheds and open space in this area, nation and around the world.
The Conservancy is slammed from the far right for working too cozily with government and with conspiratorial concoctions of its great influence and determination to undermine private property rights.
From the political left, meanwhile, the organization is charged with being too cozy with business, too much involved with rich people and for getting into odd new types of economic activities on its lands. We saw some of this in a pretty misleading recent series played front page in The Washington Post ("Big Green").
Doing it right here
So The Nature Conservancy in all must be doing its job in the natural sciences pretty well. Enough to draw several billion dollars of current financial support worldwide, only
90.8%