Practical Environmentalism: Biostitutes?

Is Dennis Murphy the new face of the practical environmental movement, or a sellout to the development community?

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March 14, 2003, 8:00 AM PST

"Murphy, 51, helped negotiate pacts that allowed timbering in spotted-owl habitat and development where the Southern California gnatcatcher lives.... Yet he insists that he isn't in it for the money, that it is a sometimes embarrassing offshoot of what really matters: protecting endangered species with pragmatic compromises... Call it Murphy's law: To preserve species and their land, you sometimes have to destroy them as well."

Thanks to Chris Steins

FULL STORY: A Sellout, or Just Practical?

Friday, March 14, 2003 in The Los Angeles Times

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