The New Republic notes that the National Wildlife Federation's new $17.4 million headquarters in the Washington suburb of Reston, Virginia, represents exactly the kind of low-rise, low-density sprawl the organization's position papers regularly denounce. The office complex features a flat, mall-style parking lot, construction of which required the clear-cutting of several acres of pines, poplars, and red maples. There are 285 parking spaces, and only 249 employees.

[Ed.: A sign near Washington's Dupont Circle Metro stop, of all places, reads: "Parking Reserved for Defenders of Wildlife."]

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