Over the past two decades, concern has grown regarding the increasing scarcity, and decreasing size, of wild populations of peyote cacti in Texas. Since the 1980s there have been alarming reports that peyote populations had been "greatly diminished" from what they had been only a few years before. (Anderson 1995) Since that time, the need for conservation measures has grown even more severe as the private lands, which constitute about 90 percent of peyote's habitat, are developed. Debates about the spiritual value of cultivated plants versus wild plants, or the importance of a psychoactive sacrament versus faith alone, will no doubt rage on ad infinitum. There is nothing wrong with such debate so long as those who truly care about the Active Sacrament don't lose sight that they must take responsibility for the future of their spiritual tradition. Those who feel that seed planting or cultivation is contrary to faith, or threatens their precarious legal right to practice their entheogenic religion, should not interfere with those who recognize the need to take immediate action. One way or another, self-reliance has to become a guiding principle if the NACs want to ensure their future. In contrast, to see their future seriously jeopardized all the churches have to do is nothing at all.