"The Nature Conservancy has ties to many large companies,
including those in the oil, gas, mining, chemical and agricultural industries.
As of 2016, its board of directors included the retired chairman of Duke Energy,
and executives from Merck,
HP,
Google and several financial industry groups.
It also has a Business Council which it describes as a consultative forum that includes
Bank of America,
BP America,
Chevron,
Coca-Cola,
Dow Chemical,
Duke Energy,
General Mills,
Royal Dutch Shell,
and Starbucks.
The organization faced criticism in 2010 from supporters for its
refusal to cut ties with BP after the Gulf oil spill."
"In 2022, a group of 158 conservation, environmental, and social justice non-profit organizations signed an open letter to the Conservancy's CEO, Jennifer Morris,
charging that The Nature Conservancy was overly supportive of logging interests and the use of wood products as a natural climate solution.
TNC is a member of the Forest Climate Working Group alongside wood product companies like Weyerhauser"
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"1803, most of the land for modern day Kansas was acquired by the United States from France
as part of the 828,000 square mile Louisiana Purchase
for 2.83 cents per acre.
In 1854, after first serving as an area to relocate Native American tribes from the east, the United States organized Kansas Territory.
In 1861, Kansas was admitted as the 34th U.S. state. The area that today is Elk County was, for a brief period, reserved to the Osage Indians
as hunting grounds for buffalo and other game"
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