Balancing The Nature Conservancy Story From: The Washington Post | Date: May 13, 2003| Author: Steven J. McCormick | Copyright 2003 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 takes seriously the issues of oversight, judgment and integrity raised by The Post in the series "Big Green" [front page, May 4-6]. We have already taken vigorous measures to respond, reported in an editorial yesterday and repeated below, and we are committed to changing any of our practices that do not live up to our mission and values.

However, we feel that the series painted a distorted picture of our organization. It misrepresented our motives and methods, to...

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