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calls "Green platonic despots" in the federal government to "local interests"[http://www.free-eco.org/articleDisplay.php?id=147 . Citing the success of local Conservation efforts such as Rocky Mountain Elk, Pheasant Forever, and Trout Unlimited, Baden has argued that the ideas FREE promotes are now "the norm among progressive, intellectually honest and successful environmentalists".[http://www.free-eco.org/articleDisplay.php?id=147] One of FREE's current projects is the "Charter Forest" project {Link without Title} , in which control of National Forests would be devolved to local trusts. The plan was endorsed by the Bush administration, but has yet to be put into effect. For more than ten years, FREE has been offering expense-paid seminars in its philosophy to federal , FREE boasted that nearly a third of the federal Judiciary had either attended or were seeking to attend its seminars. The group also offers expense-paid courses for university faculty and students, these reportedly taught on the campus of Montana State University . Between August 14 and 19 , 2004 , FREE hosted the 2004 general meeting of the Mont Pèlerin Society at the Grand America Hotel in Salt Lake City, Utah . Among the members of FREE's Board of Directors is George M. Gray, the executive director of the Harvard Centre for Risk Analysis. FUNDING According to FREE's website funding has come from foundations including:
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