Sometimes the best ideas take the longest time to come to fruition. Just ask Rupert Cutler . A career environmental policy-maker and consummate negotiator, Cutler knows full well the gestation period for efforts to protect natural resources. Years, usu...

Mountaintop removal mining is still in the courts, and the hemlock woolly adelgid is moving faster than thought; elsewhere, wind farms, a new conservation easement and air pollution legislation are coming into being.