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<div>Hi Chris,</div>
<div>A great example of "green-washing" -- in this instance
the devil is in the details. "Landscape level" conservation
and "acre-by-acre" footprint of Walmart stores don't quite
match up. Money is money and I'm certainly not saying that WM
contributions are not potentially valuable, but I can see the ads now:
slow camera pan over a forest/desert/canyon/lake/etc. Voice over: For
every acre of Walmart stores built, we save an acre of America's
natural heritage for you.</div>
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<div>Reality: Using a local example discussed on Vision 2020 recently,
the cedar grove on Moscow Mountain, estimated value including stumpage
is somewhere in the 1.3 million dollar range for just under 300 acres.
Call it $4000/acre. By the requirements of the grant program, WM pays
half or $2k/acre for $600k total. For the purposes of this argument,
let's assume that $2k/acre is a good average for the "high
conservation value" lands that are the focus of the program and
it's $3.1 million annual budget. That would be 1,550 acres nationwide.
Walmart plans on building 1500 stores this coming year according to
news reports. Average footprint of stores and parking lots is @30
acres or 45,000 acres of Walmart stores this year alone or a deficit
of 43,450 acres unfunded in their program.</div>
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<div>If WM is serious about offsetting their landscape level impacts,
they'll need to kick in another $86,900,000.</div>
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<div>Mark Solomon</div>
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<div>At 8:58 AM -0900 2/27/06, Chris Storhok wrote:</div>
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color="#000080">Just in case Moscow loses its battle to Super
Wal-Mart:</font></blockquote>
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size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
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size="-1"> </font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b>National Fish and Wildlife Foundation and
Wal-Mart</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b
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Invites Proposals for Acres for America
Program</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> </b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> Deadline: April 1, 2006
(Pre-proposals)</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> </b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> A partnership between Wal-Mart Stores,
Inc.</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> (</b></font> <a
href="http://www.wal-mart.com/"><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b>http://www.wal-mart.com/</b></font></a><font
face="Arial" size="-1" color="#0000FF"><b> ) and the National Fish
and Wildlife Foundation (</b></font> <a
href="http://www.nfwf.org/"><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b>http://www.nfwf.org/</b></font></a><font
face="Arial" size="-1" color="#0000FF"><b> ), the Acres for
America program was established to provide funding for projects
that conserve important habitat for fish, wildlife, and plants
through acquisition of interest in real property. The goal of
the Acres for America program is to offset the footprint of
Wal-Mart's domestic facilities on at least an acre-by-acre basis
through these acquisitions.</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> </b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> Through the program, approximately $3.1
million will be made available annually, for ten years, for
conservation investments.</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> </b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> To be considered for funding through the
Wal-Mart partner- ship, acquisitions of interest in real
property should have the endorsement of appropriate federal,
state, and local government agencies as an acquisition
with high conservation value; endorsements by nonprofit
conservation organizations are also a primary consideration.
Acquisi- tions that contribute to "landscape level"
conservation efforts that help reduce fragmentation are
preferred over isolated acquisitions. In addition, important
fish, wild- life, and/or plant resources such as endangered
species or areas of significant biological diversity, as
identified by credible conservation agencies or organizations,
should be conserved through the acquisition. The fee transfer
or perpetual easement must qualify for "conservation
purposes"</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> as defined by Internal Revenue Code Section
170(h). Access to the land by the public is preferred but not
required.</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> </b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> All grant awards require a minimum 1:1 match
of cash or contributed goods and services. Federal funds may be
considered as match. Higher ratios of matching funds will at
times aid in making applications more
competitive.</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> </b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> Visit the NFWF Web site for complete program
information and application procedures.</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> </b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> RFP Link:</b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b> </b></font><a
href="http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001072/nfwf"><font
face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#0000FF"><b>http://fconline.fdncenter.org/pnd/10001072/nfwf</b></font
></a></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Arial" size="-1"
color="#000080">Chris Storhok</font></blockquote>
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color="#000080">North Pole, AK</font></blockquote>
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