A blogger at nature.com has an interesting post about Bush’s latest attempts at environmentalism in the Pacific. He also links to a story about trash piling up in a Bush-approved protected area in Hawaii:

Ocean currents are still bringing an estimated 57 tons of garbage and discarded fishing gear to the 10 islands and the waters surrounding them each year. … Debris removal, meanwhile, has fallen to 35 tons a year since the islands became a monument, about a third of the 102 tons that boats and divers collected on average before that, including junk that was already there.

The Mises Institute has a great Murray Rothbard lecture that explains the essential link between private property and conservation; that is, the state is bad at conservation.