Struggle to Heed Call of the Wild; Nature Conservancy vs. Bulldozer From: The Washington Post | Date: April 11, 1991| Author: Paul Valentine | Copyright (null) The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

The Nature Conservancy, a kind of real estate company in reverse, is looking for land to save, not develop. It may not have much luck in places such as Montgomery and Prince George's counties.

The group's job of buying up environmentally sensitive land to keep out commercial developers may be relatively simple in the outback of New Mexico or even the forests of Western Maryland and the swamps of the Eastern Shore. But in Washington's jam-packed suburbs, where civilization has alread...

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