I'm a little different from all those conservation types.
My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.
I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.
Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.
That's really the challenge of this century, to develop spokespeople.
The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.