Week of March 1, 2009
Updated 3/5 Open Letter to The Nature Conservancy #1 By Steve Young, invasives volunteer Arlington County Posted at http://plantwhacker.blogspot.com Attacks on invasives efforts are going on at every level from the global and national down to the local, as here in Arlington. I can't find a public announcement directly from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), but email traffic shows that they have made the internal decision to disband their Global Invasive Species Team effort and fire all those folks in a few months. Arg. Here is the letter I have just finished and will post tomorrow. February 27, 2009 Mark Tercek, President and CEO The Nature Conservancy 4245 North Fairfax Drive, Suite 100 Arlington, VA 22203-1606 Dear Mr. Tercek: I have been a member of The Nature Conservancy since 1981. No, certainly I am not one of your biggest donors, but I have been a faithful member and I have believed in TNC’s work and given what I can. For all this time I have been of the impression that the miss...