Other lands can be or are currently protected by private individuals and organizations. Additional land will be protected through a strategy including acquisition from willing sellers, improved management, and voluntary private landowner cooperation. This strategy will require the strong involvement of local communities and citizens in the decision-making process. Although, it's hard to place a value on the howl of a wolf or the roar of a canyon creek. The benefits of Nature protection are not limited to plants and animals.
Nature provides humans with a complete life support system.
Protecting nature will ensure the health and well being of future generations. We are called to our task by the inability of existing parks, wilderness areas, and wildlife refuges to adequately protect life in North America in the face of increasing human numbers and technological change. While these areas preserve spectacular scenery and provide outstanding recreational opportunities, they are too small, too isolated, and represent too few types of ecosystems to perpetuate the continent's biological wealth. Despite the establishment of parks and reserves from Canada to Central America, true wilderness and native, wildland-dependant species are in precipitous decline. Implementation of this system will take place over many decades.