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Green Cemeteries fund conservation

By Nancy Bazilchuk
January-March 2007 (Vol. 8, No. 1)

The Galisteo Basin Preserve in New Mexico is a conservationist's dream. The 5,260-hectare parcel is blanketed by a patchwork of piñon and juniper forests and blue grama grasslands, with raptors wheeling overhead while jackrabbits and coyotes lope down dry arroyos. And if Joe Sehee has his way, this spectacular high-desert life will be partially protected by the dead.

Sehee, executive director of the Green Burial Council, is working with the Commonweal Conservancy in New Mexico to help finance the project with the creation of a four-hectare green cemetery where people can choose to be buried in an environmentally friendly way—without embalming fluids and in biodegradable shrouds or wooden boxes. Roughly half the cost



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