The pipelines transport natural gas liquids that are used for home heating and to manufacture plastics. We support The Nature Conservancy from a broad perspective. One of our founder's sons is a past chairman of The Nature Conservancy's board of governors. Nationally, we've helped them establish a tallgrass prairie in Oklahoma. Our employees get personally involved, too.
Wetlands are places where land and water meet.
They can take the form of a marsh, bog or a flooded bottomland like the Matheson Preserve where the Colorado River brushes against the desert. The Nature Conservancy of Utah began acquiring land in 1990 to establish the preserve. We've been able to preserve an exotic green world among the red cliffs here in the desert. What we've seen from Williams is a cooperative understanding that science and industry can work together. We've been able to teach them about the sensitivity of the ecosystem in the preserve because we have open lines of communication.