From MAXXAM President to The Nature Conservancy Vice President - Dr. John Mick Seidl

Nature Conservancy, BP, ENRON, MAXXAM,
MLPA Initiative, Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation

"The oil industry is a major player in the gulf," he said. "It would be naive to ignore them."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/23/AR2010052302164.html

There might be a sense of the past among long-timers at the Nature Conservancy.

Years ago, worried officials quietly assembled focus groups and found that most members saw a partnership with BP as "inappropriate."

The 2001 study, obtained by The Washington Post, found that many Conservancy members felt a relationship with an oil company was "inherently incompatible." And to a minority of members, accepting cash from these types of companies was viewed as "the equivalent of a payoff."

Why are MAXXAM and ENRON and MLPA alongside the Nature Conservancy and Oil... probably could be stated the other way around, why is all that oil alongside the Nature....

Well...

The Nature Conservancy hired MAXXAM president Dr. John Mick Seidl also of (ENRON) to "protect intact ecosystems and biodiversity hot-spots" around the globe beginning in Costa Rica. This guy is Mr. Oil going back to the 60's.

The Green Chameleons
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/11/13/18628577.php

SAN FRANCISCO June 5, 2001 The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation announced the addition of Dr. John M. "Mick" Seidl as Director for the Foundation's environmental programs. Seidl oversaw, directed and managed the grant administration of the Foundation's environmental programs, which focus on biodiversity and the protection of the intact natural ecosystem.

Dr John reported directly to Lew Coleman (B of A), the Foundation's President. "With the Foundation's unique approach to grant-making, we stand to make a significant impact through the smart protection, preservation and stewardship of the earth's biodiversity." J. Seidl
http://www.allbusiness.com/environment-natural-resources/ecology-environmental/6136963-1.html

Environmental groups such as Greenpeace (which eschews any corporate support) made headlines by chasing whaling ships and blocking logging roads. The Nature Conservancy's less confrontational approach attracted a broad base of supporters. 1985 membership - 300,000.

Scroll down to Nov 11 2004 at the Gordon & Betty Moore foundation
http://www.moore.org/pa-news.aspx?pa=0

TNC and Ducks Unlimited, joined in buying $3.5 million of California farmland to be reverted to waterfowl habitat.

TNC extended its approach of compromise and cooperation to big business. Corporate giving accounted for $2 million, or 16 percent, of TNC income in 1991. By the mid-1990s, 500 companies, such as Miller Brewing Company, Canon USA, Honda of America, Procter & Gamble, and Warner-Lambert, supported TNC with donations, some of them through cause-related marketing. This arrangement allowed the corporate partners to use the TNC name and logo in promotions. TNC also introduced its own credit card.

Membership reached 766,000 in 1993, revenues were $280 million, and nearly eight million acres had been protected. Assets approached $1 billion. On average, 1,000 acres a day are added to its system of nature preserves, the world's largest. When TNC cannot buy desired property, it sometimes attains conservation easements restricting use of the land in return for tax benefits.

MLPA Preservation by Privatization: Nature conservancy 2009

CONSERVATION LEASING AND OWNERSHIP OF MARINE RIGHTS: LEASING KELP BEDS TO EXAMINE THE NURSERY ROLE OF MACROCYSTIS CANOPY

There are significant submerged lands available for lease and ownership in the USA says Mark Carr of the North Coast MLPA Science Advisory Team. It has been assumed that strategies for marine conservation must be substantially different than those for terrestrial conservation, in part because it is not possible to “buy the bottom” of the publicly owned oceans. This is an unfortunate misconception. There are significant submerged lands available for lease and ownership in the USA.

The Nature Conservancy is exploring the leasing and ownership of submerged lands as a tool for marine conservation for a diverse array of ecosystems. To examine some of the benefits, considerations and strategies of this tool in California, the Nature Conservancy has received approval to lease over 1700 acres of kelp forests within the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary.
CONSERVATION WITHOUT BORDERS SOCIETY FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY 20th ANNUAL MEETING • 24–28 JUNE 2006 SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, USA


John Seidl (at his) Best Management Practices

John Seidl, Administrative Assistant, the F.B. Heron Foundation, and a member of the Grants Managers Network has served as the Committee Chair for this association's Best Practices Manual, being published by the Council on Foundations.

This session served to educate attendees on the Manual's purpose. We were fortunate to have a member of the Council of Foundations present to bring review copies and take orders for this publication before the end of the conference. We want to thank the Grants Managers Network for their participation.

Mr. John M. Seidl (1987-1995: Vice Chair, 1991) The Nature Conservancy:
http://www.nature.org/aboutus/leadership/art15467.html

1991. MAXXAM's President, John Seidl, was selected to be a vice president of the Board of Directors of the Nature Conservancy. Seidl resigned from MAXXAM in 1992. In less than 10 years he had learned to spell biodiversity.

And under the guise of:

PARTNERSHIPS TO ENSURE ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY
TNC with 8$ million dolars from the Moore Foundation sent Dr John to Costa Rica (with) National Biodiversity Institute (INBio) (Costa Rica) John M. “Mick” Seidl, Chief Program Officer, Environment, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

One thing is for certain. MAXXAM has designs on California as well as the rest of the world. It is far more than just a lumber company. And it is something we should all take very seriously.
http://www.jailhurwitz.com/sevensins.html

The MAXXAM company quit the timber business in 2008 when its former subsidiary, Humboldt Redwood (formerly Pacific Lumber Company), was taken over by Mendocino Redwood Company. Pacific Lumber Company had filed for bankruptcy a year earlier. Chairman and CEO Charles Hurwitz controls more than 80% of MAXXAM.
http://www.answers.com/topic/maxxam-inc

Vicki Spruill President of The Ocean Conservancy since 2006 and SeaWeb before that, is out there collecting money for TOC, and selling the MLPA-I off California's Coast to the nation and Obama as recently as July 19th, and August 17 2009 as i-MSP when it's not. All we are getting is Eco-system Based Management, no different than FERC, or MMS siting an Oil lease, or a WAVE Energy lease without an integrated view of current (and planned) regional and local ocean uses. Spatial landscape dynamics and impacts used to be included in the Cumulative Impacts Assessment. But that could be argued. One difference between i-MSP and EBM is the human component, (socio-economic impacts, cultural uses) of an area, the relationship to resources.... One drawback to i-MSP, is the process takes a lot longer. There are others.

Back to this corporate web we weave.
PEW funded the NRDC startup project SeaWeb, it is a COMPASS Partner, and COMPASS is funded by the Packard Foundation.

Seafood Choices Alliance is a program of SeaWeb. The Seafood Summit 2010 is in Paris. Seafood Choices Keynote Speaker is Susan Ashcraft, Senior Marine Biologist and Supervisor of Marine Protected Areas, California Department of Fish and Game
http://www.seafoodchoices.org/seafoodsummit.php

"Interesting discussions explored the sustainability of open ocean aquaculture, fisheries management, international trade and catch shares."

It's Not About Fishing, It's About Sustainable Markets

Tomas DiFiore
Seaweed Rebellion and Brain Food Resources:
Requires knowledge of how to use a depth finder.
http://www.astral-arts.com/resources.html

Albion Harbor Regional Alliance