Post by guru on Dec 15, 2010 13:17:09 GMT -4
Here is a very interesting link that i found posted elsewhere.
www.access-advocates.org/issues.htm
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The ultimate goal of Wilderness advocates is implementing the UNITED NATIONS Wildlands Project to make over 50% of America off limits to human use.
Areas in RED would allow little or no human use. In the West the majority of the areas not in RED would be highly regulated buffer zones
Over 50% or 101,000,000 acres of your public lands have already been closed to most uses.
Over seven acres an hour of your public lands are proposed this year to be closed to most uses via Wilderness, or other restrictive designations, without public involvement.
Access to your favorite places could be closed soon unless you take action to protect it.
BOXER S-493 BILL PROPOSES TO CLOSE VAST MAJORITY OF REMAINING MULTIPLE USE LANDS IN CALIFORNIA
In California 36 new inappropriate Wilderness areas containing over 1,100,000 acres, are proposed in Senator Boxer's S-493 bill.
Here is a link to websites listing each proposed Wilderness addition including maps. www.calwild.org/places/index.php
Here is a link to the complete S-493 Wilderness bill including the list of 36 areas proposed for closure.
None if any of these areas have been recommended for Wilderness designation by the Forest Service, yet the drafters of the bill know better & are seeking to make backroom deals to close these lands to most uses without public involvement. This bill failed in 2002 & 2006 but it keeps coming back to haunt us. Each of these areas proposed for closure are part of the RED areas on the Wildlands project map above.
"WILDEST BILL ON THE HILL" PROPOSES TO CLOSE OVER 21% OF MULTIPLE USE LANDS
Another 2007 bill, the “Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act”, appropriately nicknamed the “Wildest Bill on The Hill”, because it truly is outrageous, proposes to make 35% (26,000,000 acres) of remaining forest lands off limits to most of the public, to remove 6300 miles of much needed access roads at great expense to taxpayers, restrict over 1800 miles of rivers, create a million acre pilot program to remove more existing roads, restrict further lands by expanding two national parks & creation of “Biological Linkage Corridors” ( as in the above Wildlands Map). All without public input, driven by a minority of vocal well funded special interest groups.
Drafters of the bill tout short-term jobs created removing roads as a boon to local economies that will replace long-term logging jobs lost. Yet road removal is a drain on the taxpayers, reduces tourism revenue by reducing tourism access, eliminates roads needed to control wildfires & increases greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging wildfire; while logging produces a renewable product, reduces wildfire fuels, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, as well as creating jobs & paying taxes in perpetuity.
Watch the documentary video
HOW THE WEST WAS LOST
THE FALLACY OF FEDERAL WILDERNESS
Produced by
People for Preserving Our Western Heritage, The New Mexico Farm Bureau
and Crystal Clear Productions of New Mexico
NEW DEFINITION OF WILDERNESS??
Most people would agree that heliports, airstrips, cell towers, television/radio towers, radio repeaters, associated access roads, power lines, phone lines, structures, fence lines, areas with less than 70% federal ownership, developed campgrounds & tree plantations would not qualify as Wilderness “untouched by the hand of man”. Yet in January 2007 the Forest Service released FSH 1909.12 including all of the above as areas to be considered for future Wilderness additions. Somehow the Forest Service has taken it upon themselves to change Congressional legislation, as well as help implement the UNTIED NATIONS Wildands Project to make over 50% of America off limits to the public.
FOREST SERVICE RSFMP PROPOSES TO CLOSE 50% OF DEVELOPED SITES
While not yet fully released to the public, the new Forest Service RSFMP Recreation Site Facility Master Plan appears to be proposing to decommission or close about 50% of the National Forests developed recreation sites, supposedly in order to make our forests pay for themselves. The Washington DC Forest Service office recently authorized the use of two years ($93,000,000) of user fees to fund the closure of recreation facilities, instead of maintaining them. Considering these proposed closures & the new false Wilderness FSH 1909.12 standards, it appears every public land would qualify in this no land left open to the public campaign of the UNITED NATIONS WIldlands Project.
FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN TAKE ACTION TO PREVENT FURTHER CLOSURES
You can also view a very informative video "Taking America" by Dr. Michael Coffman, on the UNITED NATIONS Wildlands Project
Here is a link to a Wildlands Project flyer with a list of project offices set up to help implement the UNITED NATIONS plan.
Numerous groups support the Wildlands Project without informing their membership. If you are opposed to prohibiting the public from their public lands then you may wish to voice your concerns to these organizations, as well as terminate your memberhship.
According to research by Dr. Michael Coffman the following are some of the more notable groups supporting the WIldlands Project:
The Sierra Club Friends of the Earth
Audubon Society The Nature Conservancy
National Wildlife Federation The Wilderness Society
Defenders of Wildlife American WIldlands
www.access-advocates.org/issues.htm
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The ultimate goal of Wilderness advocates is implementing the UNITED NATIONS Wildlands Project to make over 50% of America off limits to human use.
Areas in RED would allow little or no human use. In the West the majority of the areas not in RED would be highly regulated buffer zones
Over 50% or 101,000,000 acres of your public lands have already been closed to most uses.
Over seven acres an hour of your public lands are proposed this year to be closed to most uses via Wilderness, or other restrictive designations, without public involvement.
Access to your favorite places could be closed soon unless you take action to protect it.
BOXER S-493 BILL PROPOSES TO CLOSE VAST MAJORITY OF REMAINING MULTIPLE USE LANDS IN CALIFORNIA
In California 36 new inappropriate Wilderness areas containing over 1,100,000 acres, are proposed in Senator Boxer's S-493 bill.
Here is a link to websites listing each proposed Wilderness addition including maps. www.calwild.org/places/index.php
Here is a link to the complete S-493 Wilderness bill including the list of 36 areas proposed for closure.
None if any of these areas have been recommended for Wilderness designation by the Forest Service, yet the drafters of the bill know better & are seeking to make backroom deals to close these lands to most uses without public involvement. This bill failed in 2002 & 2006 but it keeps coming back to haunt us. Each of these areas proposed for closure are part of the RED areas on the Wildlands project map above.
"WILDEST BILL ON THE HILL" PROPOSES TO CLOSE OVER 21% OF MULTIPLE USE LANDS
Another 2007 bill, the “Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act”, appropriately nicknamed the “Wildest Bill on The Hill”, because it truly is outrageous, proposes to make 35% (26,000,000 acres) of remaining forest lands off limits to most of the public, to remove 6300 miles of much needed access roads at great expense to taxpayers, restrict over 1800 miles of rivers, create a million acre pilot program to remove more existing roads, restrict further lands by expanding two national parks & creation of “Biological Linkage Corridors” ( as in the above Wildlands Map). All without public input, driven by a minority of vocal well funded special interest groups.
Drafters of the bill tout short-term jobs created removing roads as a boon to local economies that will replace long-term logging jobs lost. Yet road removal is a drain on the taxpayers, reduces tourism revenue by reducing tourism access, eliminates roads needed to control wildfires & increases greenhouse gas emissions by encouraging wildfire; while logging produces a renewable product, reduces wildfire fuels, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, as well as creating jobs & paying taxes in perpetuity.
Watch the documentary video
HOW THE WEST WAS LOST
THE FALLACY OF FEDERAL WILDERNESS
Produced by
People for Preserving Our Western Heritage, The New Mexico Farm Bureau
and Crystal Clear Productions of New Mexico
NEW DEFINITION OF WILDERNESS??
Most people would agree that heliports, airstrips, cell towers, television/radio towers, radio repeaters, associated access roads, power lines, phone lines, structures, fence lines, areas with less than 70% federal ownership, developed campgrounds & tree plantations would not qualify as Wilderness “untouched by the hand of man”. Yet in January 2007 the Forest Service released FSH 1909.12 including all of the above as areas to be considered for future Wilderness additions. Somehow the Forest Service has taken it upon themselves to change Congressional legislation, as well as help implement the UNTIED NATIONS Wildands Project to make over 50% of America off limits to the public.
FOREST SERVICE RSFMP PROPOSES TO CLOSE 50% OF DEVELOPED SITES
While not yet fully released to the public, the new Forest Service RSFMP Recreation Site Facility Master Plan appears to be proposing to decommission or close about 50% of the National Forests developed recreation sites, supposedly in order to make our forests pay for themselves. The Washington DC Forest Service office recently authorized the use of two years ($93,000,000) of user fees to fund the closure of recreation facilities, instead of maintaining them. Considering these proposed closures & the new false Wilderness FSH 1909.12 standards, it appears every public land would qualify in this no land left open to the public campaign of the UNITED NATIONS WIldlands Project.
FIND OUT HOW YOU CAN TAKE ACTION TO PREVENT FURTHER CLOSURES
You can also view a very informative video "Taking America" by Dr. Michael Coffman, on the UNITED NATIONS Wildlands Project
Here is a link to a Wildlands Project flyer with a list of project offices set up to help implement the UNITED NATIONS plan.
Numerous groups support the Wildlands Project without informing their membership. If you are opposed to prohibiting the public from their public lands then you may wish to voice your concerns to these organizations, as well as terminate your memberhship.
According to research by Dr. Michael Coffman the following are some of the more notable groups supporting the WIldlands Project:
The Sierra Club Friends of the Earth
Audubon Society The Nature Conservancy
National Wildlife Federation The Wilderness Society
Defenders of Wildlife American WIldlands