Nature's keepers; the remarkable story of how the Nature Conservancy became the largest environmental organization in the world.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

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Nature's keepers; the remarkable story of how the Nature Conservancy became the largest environmental organization in the world.

Birchard, Bill.

Jossey-Bass

2005

252 pages

$24.95

Hardcover

QH76

Birchard is a freelance journalist who has been writing about management and the environment for some 25 years. He incorporates both of these interests in his account of the Nat...

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