Why Don't Environmentalists Just Buy the Land They Want To Protect? Because It's Against the Rules.

The article offers information on the land use law preventing environmentalists from buying land they need to protect in the U.S. It states that the National Environmental Policy Act, the Endangered Species Act and the Federal Land Policy and Management Act gives environmental groups opportunities to stall projects with legal challenges or to thwart them entirely. It mentions that environmentalists are using the laws to protect natural resources.