Richard Spotts

  • Why you cannot take protective land designations for granted

    Richard Spotts

    I started to be involved in conservation issues when I was 15 growing up in southern California.  I watched natural areas that I loved being bulldozed into oblivion for sprawl development.  I’ve continued my conservation involvement ever since.  I am now retired and 72.  Along the way, I had many conservation-related jobs, including as an…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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