ALERT: Serious public & private land grab bill

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H.R. 2016, The National Landscape Conservation System Act

To establish the National Landscape Conservation System, and for other purposes.

Why isn't anyone concerned and commenting on this issue. The bill HR 2016, sneaking through Congress, will change life as we know it. It is another version of the HR 1975 bill introduced last fall.

It is scary enough that it establishes a National Landscape Conservation System.
But it is "for other purposes" too.

This is another huge public lands grab. They are talking about taking control of a mega 20 million acres more of land administered by the BLM.

It is all about gaining more control and restricting the public and private landowners. It will put unreasonable pressure on the private land owners.

We think it is awful that they are restricting our access to our public lands. With this bill, they even go further. We will find that we can't grow a garden without permission, if we are allowed to grow one at all. They decide what we can grow and how much water we can use, etc. Or we may find that our property is earmarked as a special place to be taken away from us and conserved.

The feds/UN has no business owning any land. They absolutely do not need to control any more. The taking of our land is thievery. The Wildlands Project and the Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) Conservation Initiative seem to be moving right along forward as planned. E

PLEASE GO TO THIS WASHINGTONWATCH WEBSITE AND VOTE AGAINST THIS BILL
AND CONTACT YOUR CONGRESSMAN:
www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_2016.html
www.washingtonwatch.com/bills/show/110_HR_2016.html#toc0

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110th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. R. 2016

To establish the National Landscape Conservation System, and for other purposes.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

April 24, 2007

Mr. GRIJALVA (for himself, Mr. MORAN of Virginia, Mrs. BONO, Mr. RENZI, Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, Mr. HINCHEY, Mr. INSLEE, Mr. PALLONE, Mrs. MALONEY of New York, Ms. BERKLEY, Mrs. CAPPS, Ms. LEE, Mrs. WILSON of New Mexico, Mr. UDALL of Colorado, Mr. DOGGETT, Mr. GILCHREST, and Mr. KIRK) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources


A BILL

To establish the National Landscape Conservation System, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the `National Landscape Conservation System Act'.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:

(1) SECRETARY- The term `Secretary' means the Secretary of the Interior.
(2) SYSTEM- The term `system' means the National Landscape Conservation System established by section 3(a).

SEC. 3. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE NATIONAL LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION SYSTEM.

(a) Establishment- In order to conserve, protect, and restore nationally significant landscapes that have outstanding cultural, ecological, and scientific values for the benefit of current and future generations, there is established in the Bureau of Land Management the National Landscape Conservation System.
(b) Components- The system shall include each of the following areas administered by the Bureau of Land Management:

(1) Each area that is designated as--

(A) a national monument;
(B) a national conservation area;
(C) an outstanding natural area;
(D) a wilderness study area;
(E) a component of the National Trails System;
(F) a component of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System; or
(G) a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System.

(2) Any area designated by Congress to be administered for conservation purposes, including--

(A) the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Area, as designated under section 101(a) of the Steens Mountain Cooperative Management and Protection Act of 2000 (16 U.S.C. 460nnn-11(a));
(B) the Headwaters Forest Reserve; and
(C) any additional area designated by Congress for inclusion in the system.

(c) Management- The Secretary shall manage the system--

(1) in accordance with any applicable law (including regulations) relating to any component of the system included under subsection (b); and
(2) in a manner that protects the values for which the components of the system were designated.

SEC. 4. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as are necessary to carry out this Act.


See Related Bills:

The National Landscape Conservation System Act (S. 1139)

See Bills on the Same Subject:
Commemorations, Cultural property, Ecosystem management, Environmental protection, Historic sites, History, Humanities, Landscape protection, National monuments, Natural areas, Natural resources, Public lands, Sports, Trails, Water resources, Wild rivers, Wilderness areas
See Bills in the Same Budget Category:
Natural Resources and Environment

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THE YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE y2y.claritydemo.net/googlemap.htm#mapt

Cabinet-Purcell Mountain Corridor

www.y2y.net/data/1/rec_imgs/63_new_website_maps_CP_web%20version.jpg

They say, the Cabinet-Purcell Mountain Corridor is one of only two remaining areas in the Yellowstone to Yukon region where grizzly bears can move back and forth between Canada and the US (the other is the Crown of the Continent Ecosystem). It is a "Priority Area" to them. It plays a critical role in connecting Canadian grizzly bears and other carnivores with populations in the US. The Cabinet-Purcell area is also a key piece of their plan for getting bears into the Central Idaho Complex Priority Area.

They have already established a large management area in the northern portion of the Cabinet-Purcells. The immediate goals for the area are to stabilize the smaller population of bears, and to maintain the relative stability of the larger population. The region’s four grizzly bear population units live in close proximity to human settlements.

A 20-member steering committee in this area, representing a spectrum of organizations and agencies, is working with Y2Y to push the conservation agenda forward. Projects include a large-scale habitat restoration effort in the Clearwater National Forest, coordinated by Wildland CPR* www.wildlandscpr.org/ and the Nez Perce Tribe, in which roads are decommissioned and monitored for wildlife use.

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*The Wildlands CPR is the only national conservation group in the U.S. that specifically targets
off-road vehicle use of public lands and actively promotes wildland restoration, road removal and the prevention of road construction on public lands.

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THE WILDLANDS PROJECT HISTORY
www.citizenreviewonline.org/april_2002/wildlands_project_history.htm

This review details much of the structure and objectives of the Wildlands Project. During the past several years, resource industries, state and local governments and communities nationwide have been buried under an avalanche of: new species listings; appeals and litigation to stop water development, logging, mining, grazing and recreational activities. There have been vast amounts of legislation proposing new wilderness areas, heritage areas, scenic rivers, biological corridors, state and national parks or wildlife refuges, as well as management plans involving critical habitat, watersheds or ecosystems. While many of these actions seem to be isolated incidence, a review of Wildlands Project documents suggests that the actions are often well coordinated activities aimed according to the Project's text at establishing a "regional reserve system which will ultimately tie the North American continent into a single Biodiversity Reserve."

Wildland Project documents from 1993 and 1994 identify 35 different groups as members of the project. As explained later, a large percentage of the appeals and litigation initiated against natural resource dependent industries during the past three years have been initiated by one or more of these member groups. Also, within a January, 1994 document, 38 areas in 12 western states are identified where "road closures would create core roadless areas of more than a million acres." By comparing the list of identified core areas with the list of Wildland Project member groups, one can establish a pattern of where litigation or appeals will occur, and which member groups will likely initiate the appeal or litigation.

VISION OF THE PROJECT

Wildlands Project calls for reserves established to protect wildlife habitat, biodiversity, ecological integrity, ecological service and evolutionary processes --- vast interconnected areas of Wilderness free from industrial human intervention. Also wilderness with extensive areas of native vegetation in various successional stages, off-limits to human exploitation. Vast landscapes without roads, dams, motorized vehicles, powerlines, overflights, or other artifacts of civilization. Over half the North American land mass is envisioned as making up this massive wilderness reserve system.

The project calls on the establishment of systems of core wilderness areas where human activity is prohibited, linked with biological corridors. Around these core reserve areas and their interlinking corridors, buffers are to be established. The buffer areas are to be managed to restore ecological health. Human activity associated with civilization -- agriculture, industrial production, urban centers -- will be allowed to continue outside these buffered regions.

Current Management of State, Federal and Local Government Lands

Until all public lands can be examined for inclusion into the reserve system, Wildlands documents states the following about their management:

"One hundred years ago, John Muir argued that the newly withdrawn Forest Reserves in the West should be protected from logging, mining and livestock grazing." A key part of the American Wilderness Recovery Plan is to return to Muir's vision for management of our public lands. Commercial livestock grazing of federal and state lands cannot be justified ecologically or economically. Commercial logging, with the possible exception of small pole, post, and firewood sales, should be prohibited. Mining is an inappropriate use of public lands in virtually all cases. Vehicle use off established roads must be entirely prohibited. By freeing Forest Service, BLM, and state lands of such multiple-abuses, many roads and other developments could be closed. Roads necessary only for logging and grazing or recreational access should be closed. It may be necessary to allow some roads to remain open to official use for short time periods to allow active restoration in severely abused areas, or for reintroduction of extirpated species, but the majority of dirt and gravel roads on the public lands should be closed quickly."

By 1994, the Wildlands Project had identified 38 areas in the western United States where minor road closures would create large roadless areas of more than a million acres. In total, these areas make up more that 75 million acres. These areas include:

North Cascades - Washington (3 million acres);
Olympia Mountains - Washington (1.2 million acres);
Kalmiopsis/Siskiyous/Trinity Alps - Oregon, California (2 million acres);
Hells Canyon/Eagle Cap - Oregon, Idaho (1.5 million acres);
Selway-Bitterroot/River of No Return - Idaho, Montana (5.5 million acres);
Great Rift - Idaho (1 million acres); Owyhee - Idaho, Oregon, Nevada (8 million acres);
Oregon Desert - Oregon, Nevada (3 million acres);
Bob Marshall - Montana (3 million acres);
Beartooth - Montana, Wyoming (1.5 million acres);
North Absaroka - Wyoming (1 million acres);
Upper Yellowstone/South Absaroka - Wyoming (2.5 million acres);
Tetons/SW Yellowstone - Wyoming, Idaho (1 million acres);
Wind Rivers - Wyoming (1.2 million acres);
Red Desert - Wyoming (1 million acres);
Maroon Bells - Colorado (1 million acres);
San Juan Mountains - Colorado (2 million acres);
Desolation Canyon - Utah (2.2 million acres);
High Uintas - Utah (1 million acres);
Canyonlands - Utah (3 million acres);
San Rafael/Wayne Wonderland - Utah (1 million acres);
Escalante/Kaiparowits/Henry Mts. - Utah (3 million acres);
Desert Game Range - Nevada (1.5 million acres);
Black Rock Desert - Nevada (2.5 million acres);
Smoke Creek Desert - Nevada, California (1 million acres);
High Sierra - California (3 million acres);
Yosemite North - California (1 million acres);
Los Padres - California (2 million acres);
Death Valley/Inyo - California (1.5 million acres);
Panamint Mountains (Death Valley West) - California (1.5 million acres);
Mojave Desert - California (1.5 million acres);
Bill Williams River - Arizona (1 million acres);
Kofa - Arizona (1.5 million acres); Cabeza Prieta - Arizona (2 million acres);
Galiuro/Pinleno - Arizona (1 million acres);
Grand Canyon/Kaibab - Arizona (3 million acres);
Gila/Black Range - New Mexico (1.5 million acres);
Guadalupe Escarpment - New Mexico, Texas (1 million acres).

the list of Wildlands Project "Players:"

Biodiversity

• Canadian Biodiversity Information
• Center for Tropical Conservation
• Endangered and Extinct Species List
• Flora and Fauna Database
• IUCN (World Conservation Union)
• NatureServe Database
• The Nova Scotia Ecology Action Centre
• Society for Conservation Biology
• Tailwinds Magazine
• The Convention on Biological Diversity
• Rare, Threatened and Endangered Mammals

Wildlands Conservation Planning Partners

• Alliance for the Wild Rockies
• American Wildlands
• Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society
• Castle Crown Wilderness Coalition
• Conception Coast Project
• Forest Guardians
• Grand Canyon Wildlands Council
• Hill Country Wild
• Legacy The Landscape Connection
• New Mexico Wilderness Alliance*
• Round River Conservation Studies
• Siskiyou Project
• Sky Island Alliance
• Southern Rockies Ecosystem Project
• Superior Wilderness Action Network
• Yellowstone to Yukon

Geographical Information Systems

• ESRI
• ESRI Conservation Program
• Earth Design Consultants

Conservation Partners

• American Rivers
• Ancient Forest International
• California Wilderness Coalition
• Central Cascades Alliance
• Center for Biological Diversity
• Conservation Biology Institute
• Defenders of Wildlife
• Forest Forever
• Friends of the River
• Forest Watch
• Keeping Track, Inc.
• Land Trust Alliance
• LightHawk
• National Wildlife Federation
• Naturalia
• Northwest Ecosystem Alliance
• Oregon Natural Resources Council
• Patagonia
• Predator Conservation Alliance
• Pronatura
• Sierra Club
• Sierra Club Grizzly Bear Ecosystem Project
• Silva Forest Foundation
• Society for Ecological Restoration
• Southern Appalachian Forest Coalition
• Southwest Forest Alliance
• Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
• The Nature Conservancy
• The Wilderness Land Trust
• The Wilderness Society
• Wildlands CPR
• Wildlife Conservation Society
• World Wildlife Fund Canada
• World Wildlife Fund USA
• Yukon Wildlands Project

*Note: The Southwest Environmental Center is part of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance

TM 4/5/95 Updated 7/22/97

Click on this link for more info:
www.citizenreviewonline.org/april_2002/wildlands_project_history.htm

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The Dark Side of Globalism

September 16, 2004

By Tom DeWeese

Presentation by Tom DeWeese to the Conservative Political Action Conference, January 22, 2004.
There are many faces of globalism and it comes with many names, but in all cases the goal of globalism is to erase national borders, eliminate national sovereignty, reduce national identities and move toward global governance through the United Nations.

The European Union is the prime example of the results of globalism, where once-proud nations have surrendered famous currencies like the deutsche mark, the franc and the lira. It’s where ancient cultures like Greece and Rome have erased their borders and buried their cultures to be led by a Union of Socialists with loyalty to nothing but the drive for more and more power.

Yet it’s done in the name of equity, economic prosperity and ecological integrity. Globalism is sold to the unsuspecting public with words like free trade, open borders and environmental protection, but it’s really about redistribution of wealth; your wealth.

It’s about erasing national borders and national sovereignty. And it’s about top-down control, not necessarily by elected officials, but by special interests called Non-governmental organizations (NGO’s), which are only sanctioned by the United Nations.

Globalism calls for a wrenching transformation of our society, away from representative government and independent nations to the establishment of a global village with global citizens. The entire plan is outlined in detail in the UN’s Agenda 21, a treaty signed by then-President George Bush at the UN’s Earth Summit in 1992.

You’ve heard some of the terms used to implement that treaty. The Wildlands Project is one. Smart Growth is another. The Wildlands Project calls for the "re-wilding" of 50% of all of the land in every state, restoring everything back to the way it was before Christopher Columbus stepped foot on the continent. In other words, the elimination of human presence on over 50% of the American landscape.

Smart Growth is the plan to herd us all into specific human habitat areas, out of the suburbs and our beautiful yards and into crowded cities and high rises. As one smart growth advocate gleefully put it: "It will be the humans in cages with the animals looking in."

Both of these schemes are part of an overall agenda called "Sustainable Development." If you remember nothing else, remember these words. Sustainable Development. And remember that Sustainable Development is your enemy.

What is it? Imagine an America in which a specific "ruling principle" is created to decide proper societal conduct for every citizen. That principle would be used to consider everything you eat, what you wear, the kind of home you live in, the way you get to work, the way you dispose of waste, the number of children you may have, even your education and employment decisions. That "ruling principle" is Sustainable Development.

The goal of Sustainable Development is to transform the world into feudal-like governance by making NATURE the central organizing principle for our economy and society.

This is what Sustainable Development policy advocates: "Nature has an integral set of different values (cultural, spiritual and, material) where humans are one strand in nature’s web and all living creatures are considered equal. Therefore, the natural way is the right way and human activities should be molded along nature’s rhythms." This quote comes from the UN’s Biodiversity Treaty.

An international agenda has been set in motion, beginning with the United Nation’s treaties and agreements. That agenda is now working its way down through federal to state to local government policy. It is now the official policy of the United States government and every single city, town and small burg in this nation are working on plans to implement it. There are no exceptions.

Wherever you live there are an average of 10 to 18 Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) working directly with your elected councilmen and commissioners on plans for your community to determine:

How your property will be used;


How business may operate in the community (indeed which businesses may even operate),
· The type of housing that may be built,

· Where roads may or may not be run,

· How food is to be grown,

· How labor is to be used and how your children are to be educated.

The plan is to change your way of life to fit into the new global society. According to Sustainable Development policies, air conditioning, convenience foods, single-family housing and cars are among the products, habitats and modes of transportation that have already been determined to be "unsustainable."

Add to them, ski runs, grazing of livestock, plowing fields, logging, dams and reservoirs, and power line construction, as outlined in the UN’s Biodiversity Treaty (also a product of the Earth Summit) and you can get the full picture of America under Sustainable Development.

Across this nation people are already suffering under Sustainable Development policies as they are losing their homes, their jobs and, in some cases, whole communities under this wrenching transformation of our society in the name of the global village.

There has never been a single vote in Congress to create Sustainable Development. It’s all done through cleverly rearranged wording of existing programs and budgets, using UN treaties as guidelines. It’s all under the radar.

Sustainable Development is anti-property rights. Anti-free enterprise. It is anti-individual liberty. It is anti-national sovereignty and national borders. It is anti-Western culture. There can be no hope of living in a nation of limited government with Sustainable Development as official government policy because the two are diametrically opposed.

Americans would never concede their liberty to Swastikas or Hammers and Sickles, but tuck it in a green blanket for environmental protection and we’ll toss it all on the fire like an old-fashioned book burning.

This is about totalitarianism. It’s about controlling every aspect of our lives with decisions made by non-elected committees that will get more powerful and more oppressive with each passing day and each new regulation proposed by newly empowered special interest groups.

Sustainable Development is anti-science.

It is anti-knowledge.

It is anti-human.

It is the creed of the mindless savage who seeks brute force over reasoned thought.

And if we don’t learn of its evil now, if we don’t heed the warning, if we don’t rip it out of every level of government policy by its well entrenched roots, then American life, indeed human existence, as we know it, will enter a new dark ages of pain and misery unlike any ever experienced by the community of man.

There is one sure way to stop Sustainable Development and the globalist movement. I tell it to everyone I meet, everyday of my life. I tell it to you now. Get the United States out of the United Nations.


www.americanpolicy.org/un/darkside.htm
© 2006 American Policy Center

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BAD NEWS! National Landscape Conservation System Act - Vote Passed (278-140, 12 Not Voting).

Congress just confiscated 26 million acres of our public lands and gave it to the United Nations (The Rockefellers). And opened the door to future takings of public and private lands that they may deem as "special places." Anyone that owns property and lives in rural areas and all motorized recreationists are extremely vulnerable to these future plans.