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This (Wet)Land is My Land 
Hit and Run | by kmw@reason.com (Katherine Mangu-Ward) | Mon, Jun 11
Mon, Jun 11
My kind of environmentalist: Douglas Tompkins, the American founder of North Face and Esprit clothing is "trying to save the planet by buying bits of it." He has already bought "a huge swath of southern Chile, and now he's hoping to save the northeast wetlands of neighboring Argentina":
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