http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/10/03/island-rhythms/ XML, identity, crafting, and other tangled musings Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:07:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/10/03/island-rhythms/#comment-16700 Pushing String » Voluntary conservation works Tue, 14 Nov 2006 22:05:03 +0000 http://www.xmlgrrl.com/blog/archives/2006/10/03/island-rhythms/#comment-16700 [...] I remarked last month on the effort by the San Juan Preservation Trust to “save Turtleback Mountain” on Orcas Island. Well, it looks like they’ve done it! I think this is a great model for conservation, a lot more agile than a one-size-fits-all government program. In fact, this project was taken over from the Nature Conservancy at one point when the latter decided to focus on what they felt was a more pressing need according to their lights. Local folks had an incentive to get the local effort going…and they succeeded. Well done. [...] […] I remarked last month on the effort by the San Juan Preservation Trust to “save Turtleback Mountain” on Orcas Island. Well, it looks like they’ve done it! I think this is a great model for conservation, a lot more agile than a one-size-fits-all government program. In fact, this project was taken over from the Nature Conservancy at one point when the latter decided to focus on what they felt was a more pressing need according to their lights. Local folks had an incentive to get the local effort going…and they succeeded. Well done. […]

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