Conservation easements limit future generations, open the door to massive tax fraud, and enable elites to remake rural America into a green theme park, cleansed of those pesky rubes who no longer fit in.
Heather Richards may have resigned from her job with the Piedmont Environmental Council, but she is in a position of even greater authority now as chair of the Land Trust Accredication Commission -- and one wonders whether other land trusts are also abusing power as the PEC clearly did. As for Richards, she cannot even seem to tell the truth about her upbringing.