Pres. Bush Executive Order for Cooperative Conservation
- August 26, 2004
Pres. George W. Bush directed the Departments
of Interior, Agriculture, Defense, and the Environmental Protection
Agency to promote cooperative conservative conservation, emphasizing
local participation. he directed agencies to take appropriate
account of and respect the interests of
persons with ownership or other legally recognized interests
in land and natural resources. His directive requires an annual
report on the implementation of the order by each agency to the
President’s Council on Environmental
Quality. It sets the stage for a White House Conference on Cooperative
Conservation in one year.
Additional Helpful
Organizations
The Fraser Institute
address
Center for Private
Conservation
at
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Private Conservation
Fund
at
Competitive Enterprise Institute
Center for Private Conservation
(promotes private
conservation and private property ownership)
address
Additional Resources
Managing Fish -
Ten Case Studies from Canada’s Pacific Coast - By Laura Jones, with
Miriam Bixby, Foreword by David R. Boyes (The Fraser Institute,
Vancouver, 2003)
Case studies of how fundamental changes in fisheries management,
to individual Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs or IQs), were
effective in solving the troubles besetting certain Canadian
fisheries, such as halibut, sablefish and sea cucumber.
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In-Depth Information
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 “Abundance
Ecology—The Liberty Garden” - By Michael Shaw,
Freedom 21 Radio Talk Show host, Proprietor of Liberty Garden
Aptos, California; Speech to the Eighth Annual Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N. Y. October 23,
2004)
By using intensive management, native plants whose seed bank
was long dormant returned in great variety to Liberty Garden
in Santa Cruz County on coastal California. Abundance ecology,
based on private property rights, is the opposite of shortage
ecology, based on the Endangered Species Act.
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- “Private
Conservation of Wildlife in Africa” - By Brian Seasholes,
Speech to the Sixth Annual New York Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, November 16, 2002)
The creation of property rights to wildlife in southern Africa
caused wildlife to burgeon on private lands. In Zimbabwe, the
black rhinoceros, lions, elephants, and imperiled wild dogs migrated
to conservancies, where they multiplied.
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 “Private
Conservation — Proven Environmentalism” - Robert
J. Smith, President, Center for Private Conservation, Keynote
Address to the Sixth Annual New York Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, November 2002)
This engrossing discourse on ornithology and other wildlife
is meant to convey the good news that private landowners and
private associations are almost always better stewards of the
land, resources, and wildlife than government coercion and government
ownership.
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 “An Innovative
Approach to Natural Area Restoration” — by Nate
Dickinson, Wildlife Biologist (PRFA, July 22, 2002)
Nate Dickinson’s insights about Michael Shaw’s
restoration of native species on his coastal California property.
Instead of relying on herbicides, burning, or grazing to eliminate
exotic plants, Mr. Shaw used scientifically directed human energy
to release the native seedbank, working past successive invasions
of other unwanted plants toward bountiful results.
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