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Legacy Project fighting rumors
OPINION PAGE / Lincoln Journal Star/ June 1, 2006
Apparently, disinformation has spread in western Nebraska that the Nebraska Grassland Foundation is a part of a plot — financed by the United Nations, no less! — to buy up land for a government-owned wildlife preserve.
That's not true.
But the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission was worried that its newly launched Nebraska Natural Legacy Project might be linked to the imagined global plot.
So the agency last week officially disassociated itself from a foundation report that contained a hypothetical scenario, “ Buying Arthur County,” that was misconstrued.
The commission's action accords too much respect to rumor-mongers and too little to the Grassland Foundation, a hard-working, locally based conservation organization. State officials describe the legacy project as “inclusive.” By distancing itself from the foundation, the commission failed to live up to that value.