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IRS to Audit Nature Conservancy From Inside
January 17, 2004
By
Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway
A
letter sent to the Conservancy by the Internal
Revenue Service last month indicates that the
audit will be of uncommon scope for a charity, tax
specialists said. The memorandum proposes a
preliminary meeting between four IRS examiners and
the Conservancy's chief financial officer to
discuss logistics, communications, telephone
access, equipment and accommodations. The IRS will
examine 2002 tax returns, the letter said.
"That has no relation to reality," Coda said of the IRS Form 990 filing, during a June 2002 interview in which he acknowledged the errors. Months later, the Conservancy filed its 2002 tax return -- which again showed that the loans to WEPCO totaled $2.2 million.
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Additional related reading
AERC
- The Association of Ecosystem Research Centers
The Association of Ecosystem Research (AERC) brings together 39 U.S. research programs in universities and private, state and federal laboratories that conduct research, provide training and analyze policy at the ecosystem level of environmental science and natural resources management. These centers are located in 27 states. Their scientists, who number more than 500, conduct a major share of the ecosystem research in the United States. Although AERC is an association of professional scientists rather than environmental activists, its goals and interests complement those of conservation organizations. Both groups stress the environmental and societal need for wise management of natural resources; AERC scientists provide the scientific information necessary for informed management. Recognizing that the ecological problems confronting our society are large and the means of addressing them are not limitless, the founding institutions set up the AERC in 1987 to seek new ways to pool their scientific resources and undertake a comprehensive integration of their current knowledge. The goal of the AERC is to promote the optimal use of limited scientific resources in the search for solutions to complex, large-scale environmental problems. Four areas of activity are advocacy, information, education and organization.
Advocacy: the AERC speaks for the needs and uses
of ecosystem science to government agencies,
Congress and advisory bodies.
Information: the AERC holds seminars and briefings
on environmental topics and serves as a source of
ecological data and findings relevant to resource
management.
Education: the AERC promotes opportunities for
training in new methods and in cross-disciplinary
approaches and methods.
Organization: the AERC fosters collaboration among
member institutions by coordinating initiatives
and organizing workshops on topics of mutual
interest.
AERC
member organizations:
http://culter.colorado.edu:1030/%7Eaerc/members.htm
CAR -
Core Area Research
CAR/LTER
- Core Area Research in Long-Term Ecological
Research
'Disturbance Patterns' -
http://lternet.edu/coreareas/dist.html
Global Change Master Directory -
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
GCR -
Global Change Research - (excerpted) The study of
Global Change is particularly important as it is
now clear that human social and economic
activities around the world are having an impact
that can be measured at the level of the entire
Earth and its atmosphere, oceans, and land
surface. Human activities are probably the most
rapidly changing component among the major
regulators of the Earth system, and may -- in the
future -- play a dominant role in the regulation
of global climate, global biochemistry, and the
diversity and stability of global ecosystems. "Our
planet and global environment are witnessing the
most profound changes in the brief history of the
human species. Human activity is the major agent
of those changes -- depletion of stratospheric
ozone, the threat of global warming,
deforestation, acid precipitation, the extinction
of species, and others that have not become
apparent." - Excerpted from the 1989 report of the
National Research Council, 'Global Change and Our
Common Future' It is incumbent upon humans to
understand how their actions have global effects,
and to use that understanding to manage their
impacts at the global effects, and to use that
understanding to manage their impacts at the
global as well as the local level. For this
reason, Global Change Research is a high
national and international scientific priority.
LTER sites are windows to global change. As
locations for long-term experiments, LTER sites
illuminate interactions among the physical,
chemical, and biological components of ecosystems
through controlled manipulations. Research at LTER
sites spans the range from relatively less-managed
landscapes such as arctic tundras, to intensively
managed cities and farmlands.
Relevant Links:
LTER
- Long-Term Ecological Research Project
http://lternet.edu/
OBFS
- Organization of Biological Field Stations -
http://gcmd.gsfc.nasa.gov/
VCR -
The Virginia Coast Reserve
http://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/
VCR
outside Links -
http://www.vcrlter.virginia.edu/WorldOut.html#afinst
VCR/LTER
- The Virginia Coast Reserve Long-Term Ecological
Research Project
Other
Long-Term Ecological Research Projects
Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) in Coastal
Ocean Ecosystems
The US Fish and
Wildlife Service with the assistance of The Nature
Conservancy has inherited the role of stewardship
for this globally ...
http://sev.lternet.edu/data/contents/SEV066/project/ If
that URL doesn't work, try
http://sevilleta.unm.edu/ and work from that
end.
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