Chile national parks

Instead, he bought the broken-down ranch and the surrounding land at Renihue to preserve it as a world-class national park that would one day be donated to the people of Chile. He stopped the logging on his lands, canceled development projects, and moved to protect and restore native species that generated no profit, in place of the non-native cows and sheep that profitably devastated the fragile landscape. 

And so Doug Tompkins and Chile began a decade-long war over a most unusual question whether the multimillionaire would be allowed to create Chile s greatest national park and then give it away. 

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