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Wilderness/Wildlands
On land and sea
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Globalized
Grizzlies, New American by Michael Coffman, PhD,
August 17, 1997. This is a long, organized
write-up describing in detail the origin and
the agenda of "wilderness" and "wildlands"
designations.
"Dave Foreman is the principal founder of
the eco-terrorist group Earth First! Foreman
describes the Wildlands Project as an effort
to "tie the North American continent into a
single Biodiversity Preserve"; the Project's
official publication, Wild Earth, refers to
a "long-term master plan" to connect
ecosystems throughout the continent "until
the matrix, not just the nexus, is wild."
"We must make this an insecure
and inhospitable place for
capitalists, and their projects...
We must reclaim the roads and plowed
land, halt dam construction, tear
down existing dams, free shackled
rivers, and return to wilderness
millions of tens of millions of
acres of presently settled land."
VIDEO:
Behind the Green Curtain,
or
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7934453684194357754
.
National Monuments |
www.snowmobile-alliance.org :
- Alaska has a
total of 57,425,569
acres of designated
wilderness
- California
has a total of
14,986,424 acres of
designated wilderness
- Colorado has
a total of 3,707,254
acres of designated
wilderness
- Idaho has a
total of 4,522,779 acres
of designated wilderness
- Montana has a
total of 3,443,038 acres
of designated wilderness
- Nevada has a
total of 3,370,343 acres
of designated wilderness
- Oregon has a
total of 2,473,207 acres
of designated wilderness
- Utah has a
total of 1,156,952 acres
of designated wilderness
- Washington
has a total of 4,423,676
acres of designated
wilderness
- Wyoming has a
total of 3,111,232 acres
of designated
wildernesses
Department of Interior Federal Register: over 2 million acres proposed critical habitat for yellow legged frog and Yosemite toad, 1,105,400 acres. 750,926 acres in Yosemite: Part 2 Part 3 Public Comments due June 24, 2013. Mining and timber country..."Butte, Plumas, Lassen, Sierra, Nevada, Placer, El Dorado, Amador, Calaveras, Alpine, Mariposa, Mono, Madera, Tuolumne, Fresno, and Inyo Counties, California." Sparked by lawsuit by Center for Biological Diversity
Letter by U.S. Congressman Tom McClintock on NPS Merced River Management Plan draft EIS regarding preserving Yosemite for people to use and enjoy, posted to KBC 5/7/13.
Senator Diane Feinstein's bill to create over 900,00 more acres of wilderness. posted to KBC 5/7/13.
Senators Wyden and Reid Planning 2013 Omnibus Federal Lands Bill, by Chuck Cushman, American Land Rights, 1/30/13. "Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) want to move quickly before the opposition gets organized. Your Senators are critical to stopping this giant Omnibus Federal Lands Bill."
New Aquatic Wilderness proclaimed by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar, Oyster farm must close, ruling says, Ag Alert, posted to KBC 12/13/12.
Out Of Touch
President Obama Fiddles While Tombstone, AZ Burns, Forbes, posted to KBC
8/15/12.
(House Natural
Resources Committee)
Chairman Hastings
Calls on Obama Admin. to Provide Transparent Answers to Outstanding Questions,
Disclose Documents on National Ocean Policy Prior to Imposing Final
Implementation Plan
8/15/12
Utah
legislators say Obama reviving wilderness guidelines, Capital Press, posted
8/8/12. "The manuals, they say, mirror the wording of a secretarial order
that would have made millions of acres of undeveloped land in the West eligible
for federal wilderness protection."
In Tribute to Henry Lamb 1938-2012. A look at the future...A Sustainable World
by Henry Lamb 12/11/06. Henry Lamb included documentation at the end of his article.
Judge Denies Tombstone Water, Townhall, posted to KBC 5/22/12. "Kathleen Nelson, acting ranger..., says the Forest Service has been letting Tombstone do some work to restore its water supply “as long as it complies with the 1964 Wilderness Act”—meaning Tombstone can do the work with shovels and haul the pipe up the mountain with horses... workers were stopped from using a wheel barrow. Rangers say the wheel barrow is “mechanized” and “might damage wilderness and disturb endangered species.” The feds are blocking emergency repairs that are critical to Tombstone’s survival." "If the Forest Service can effectively seize Tombstone’s 130-year-old water rights during a state of emergency— rights that the Service recognized as valid in 1916—no state or local government will be safe from the feds.”
Dams and a monument: ‘We feel squeezed
here’, H&N by Shirley Fisher
2/17/12. "It
was a great life in those days and
things were busy along the river — there
were miners and loggers, everyone
seemed to have a job, city folk had
summer homes in the area.”..."The
Siskiyou Monument proposal, if passed,
would set aside more than 500,000
acres of land between the Klamath River
and Siskiyou Crest, limiting
access"..."Fisher is concerned about the
possibility of greater frequency
of flooding if the dams come out.
With the prospect of dam removal and the
proposed 500,000-acre Siskiyou
Monument, she wonders what the future
holds."
Monument legislation discussed at hearing,
testimony by U.S. Congressman Wally Herger 11/15/11. "Obama Administration intends to use this authority to lock up more than thirteen million acres of federal land from multiple-use access. In a time of high unemployment, this would lock even more American jobs away."
Forest closes 5,000 miles of roads, trails to vehicles, H&N, posted to KBC 11/6/11.
“We don’t have a single trail out of this,” Schenck said. "OHV enthusiasts attempted to work with forest officials this summer to develop some OHV specific trails, but nothing came from the efforts." “ We did drop the ball...” Hupp said.
San Diego Superior Court Upholds California Fish and Game Commission Regulations Pertaining to Marine Protected Areas, Rejects Arguments of Coastside Fishing Club, Somach Simmons and Dunn 10/25/11
More wilderness for Crater Lake?
H&N, posted to KBC 8/21/11. Proposed
"more than 500,000 acres..."
Don't relax on wildlands,
on PieNPolitics 6/9/11
Subcommittee to Hold Oversight
Hearing on the Obama
Administration’s Wild Lands Policy,
5/17/11. "In
a move by the Obama Administration
to circumvent Congress’s sole
authority to allocate Wilderness
areas, this order could place a vast
amount of public land off-limits to
energy production, recreational use
and other job-creating activities."
Big Picture Part 3: The Re-Wilding of
Siskiyou
County ,
by Siskiyou County Supervisor Marcia Armstrong 5/20/11. "Roadless
areas, Wilderness bills, National Monuments, Wild and
Scenic
Rivers designations,
“Travel management Plans,” the new Dept. of Interior “Wild Lands” policy and
President Obama’s “Treasured Landscapes” agenda are all efforts to re-wild large
core areas.
http://users.sisqtel.net/armstrng/monument.htm"
The Big Picture part 2, by Siskiyou
County Supervisor Marcia Armstrong, posted
to KBC 5/14/11. Armstrong documents how the
UN and ICNU, with designated roadless areas
and wilderness areas, were formed to shut
down human use of land and resources in the
Klamath River Basin.
HERE for the Big Picture part 1.
Here is the link for Armstrong's research on
Agenda 21 Rewilding or
HERE
Wildlands Initiative" defunded in final CR,
The
Westerner, posted to KBC 4/16/11. “The ‘Wild Lands’
proposal issued by Secretary Salazar last December was
another attempt by the Obama Administration to circumvent
congressional authority in the Administration’s ‘War on
Western Jobs.’ "
"...MEMORANDUM*
KLAMATH
SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER v. GRANTHAM
Plaintiffs appeal the district court's denial of their
motion for preliminary injunction to halt post-fire
salvage logging in Klamath National Forest" posted
to KBC 3/29/11. (KBC
NOTE: each plaintiff,
KLAMATH SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER; ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION INFORMATION CENTER; KLAMATH FOREST ALLIANCE;
CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY" is supported by
Earthjustice, supported by
George Soros. They oppose salvage logging trees
burnt up in a fire. Same force behind the NGO's in the
KBRA.)
Uintah County amends
lawsuit against Interior Department, Officials
want judge to rule on 'wild lands' policy, Vernal
Express, posted to KBC 3/26/11. "As
much as 385,000 acres in Uintah County
face potential designation as wild
lands, which could be "locked up from
economic development,..
Governors riled by wildlands plan,
McClatchy News Service, H&N 3/2/11
Administration
Admits
it
Doesn’t
Have
Statutory
Authority
to
Prioritize
Wild
Lands
over
other
Uses,
House
Natural
Resources
Committee
3/2/11.
(KBC
NOTE:
Secretary
Salazar
designated
millions
of acres
to
become
Wild
Lands,
decimating
communities,
economies
and
ending
resource
use).
Ron
Arnold:
Congress
should
stop
funding
Big
Green
lawsuits
against
the
government,
posted
2/26/11
Washington
Examiner.
"Rep.
Tom
McClintock,
R-Calif.,
chairman
of the
House
Natural
Resource
Committee's
Power
and
Water
Subcommittee,
introduced
an
amendment
to the
House's
$1.2
trillion
continuing
resolution
bill to
permanently
defund
NFWF...amendment
failed..."
KBC NOTE
- NFWF
funds
groups
like
American
Rivers,
on the
KBRA
stakeholder
group,
which
sues the
government,
often
with
taxpayer
money.
American
Rivers
suit
intends
to
demolish
Snake
River
dams.
George
Soros
and NFWF
fund
National
Wildlife
Federation.
Committee to Hold Oversight Hearing on Interior Department’s “Wild Lands” Policy, Natural Resources Committee, posted to KBC 2/25/11. "The Wild Lands policy expressly circumvents Congress’ statutory authority to establish Wilderness areas. ... the public’s access to public lands can be limited or halted entirely – impacting our economy, jobs, recreation opportunities and American energy production. Millions of acres of multi-use land in the West are at risk of being locked-up if the Administration carries out this policy.”
BLM
Charm Offensive Backfires, Critics Fume Over 'Wild
Lands' Policy, Greenwire, posted to KBC 1/26/11
Congress must sink 'wild'
grab, Capital Press,
posted to KBC 1/8/11
Unhappy
Camp, North Coast Journal, posted to KBC
10/20/10. Environmentalist story about Happy Camp's
attitude toward Wildlands Project creating Siskiyou
Crest National Monument where these rural people
make a living. Read the comments.
"Most of you
come from cities where you flattened, paved, and
raped the land of every living thing in sight. Lived
in houses made of wood, were educated on books made
of paper, and wiped your asses with toilet paper.
Then you come out here, where the land was actually
managed and people coexist with nature."
Federal Land Management: Fighting for Access to YOUR
Federal Lands, Congressman Wally Herger 4/30/10
Secret document reveals Obama considering 13 million
acre land grab antiquities act abuses must end,
posted to KBC 3/1/10
Obama secret plan for monuments compels
congressional action, posted 3/1/10
Plans for proposed Siskiyou Crest National Monument
move forward, KDRV, posted to KBC 2/26/10
Western Lawmakers Ask Secretary Salazar for Complete
Monument Documents, Congressional Western Caucus
2/26/10. "These
designations could potentially lock up as many as 13
million acres of land in 11 different Western
states."
California
panel adds new marine sanctuary zone, Sacramento Bee
8/7/09. "The new preserves cover 153 square miles of ocean
between Half Moon Bay and Mendocino. Starting Jan. 1, fishing
will be permanently banned or restricted in the zones...The
Department of Fish and Game estimates "adequate" law
enforcement in the statewide preserve network would cost $27
million in the first year and $17 million annually thereafter.
It has nowhere near that level of funding." A Comment:
"We are adding
sanctuary zones to protect fish, but we are releasing 40K
prisoners on the general population of California to prey on
them."
RESOLUTION OF THE SISKIYOU COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
REGARDING NATIONAL MONUMENT PROPOSALS IN SISKIYOU COUNTY,
posted to KBC 8/6/09. "62%
of Siskiyou County’s 2.5 million acre land base is federal
land"
The (Calif. state water board)
panel knew nothing,
by Nita Still, Pioneer Press, 7/15/09
The
Great Auk; Dam removal part of Wildlands Project,
Letter to editor by Dick Short,
Pioneer Press 7/15/09
Wildlife plan carves swath
across West,
Proposal
raises Washington rancher-legislator’s hackles, Capital Press,
posted to KBC 3/9/08
Snowy Plover Comments by Oregon Coos County
Commissioner John Griffith
11/8/07 |
