Chattooga Quarterly
Winter, 2005
The Politics of Conservation
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Current political movement to “privatize” many components of American government is based on the belief that free market enterprise will yield a more effective delivery of goods and services at a lower cost than will a government bureaucracy. Advocates of privatization point to the profit motive as the factor that drives the private businessperson or corporation to a higher standard of performance, honed to excellence by competition. Detractors of privatization point to a strong need for regulation of corporate interest to shield public resources from the pitfalls of exploitation. Read more.
- CONSERVANCY FINDS CLAYTON SEWER LEAKS
- THE LAND & WATER CONSERVATION FUND NEEDS OUR HELP
- NATIONAL FOREST MANAGEMENT ACT REWRITTEN
- HEMLOCK WOOLLY ADELGID SEASON BEGINS
Hamilton V. Jefferson
Debate over the opposing ideologies of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton was a major factor in shaping American government in the post-revolutionary years. Read more.
Bush Backs Big Business
Alexander Hamilton strove to promote an industrial, market based economy. He pressed for a government that would encourage manufacturing and business. Many modern scholars believe that Hamilton’s policies ushered in America’s modern capitalist economy. Today, George W. Bush is following that path, linking big business and government in a tight embrace.
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Evolution of the Forest Service
The 19th century was a time of expansion and growth in the United States. Our vast forest lands provided wood products to feed the voracious appetite of progress, and the notion of conservation was a little known concept to most Americans. Read more.
The Walton War
In today’s Transylvania County in North Carolina lies a twelve mile “orphan strip” of land that caused a war between North Carolina and Georgia in 1810. The Walton War holds an obscure but fascinating place in history. Read more.