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The Planned Demolition of
On 5 May I spoke at a
Symposium sponsored by the Oregon Freedom Alliance in
participants and attendees discussing issues and problems facing this
beautiful and remote corner of Oregon, the day before and the day after
were
spent driving through the valley, canyons and high forests meeting and
talking to ranchers, an ex-logger, and local business men. It is a
trip I
think worth sharing with you.
The things I learned and saw gave me insights into topics I thought I
knew
before. The coming-together of so many government threats to
freedom in
Oregon
Woman's Story of Germany 1934-1938. Her simple narratives of
everyday
German citizens going about their business and those wondering where
they
could go to get away while property is seized and their lives are
ordered
and dictated by a far off central government came to mind while
listening to
stories of unresponsive state governments, Federal fiats, Nature
Conservancy
and Land Trust operations, Native American land claims and unexplained
preferential roles in Federal land closures. Logging has all but
disappeared on public lands in the Northern Rockies and the communities
have
suffered accordingly, ranchers are being forced out, grazing allotments
are
steadily reduced, dead (from disease and fire) timber that should be
harvested rots on public lands waiting for the next lightning strike or
spark, and the US Congress has just proposed taking 1.5 Million acres of
National Forest in Oregon (where human uses and resource management have
all
but disappeared) and putting them in the National Park Service where the
wastage of natural resources, lack of management, and elimination of
access
will be completed.
There are so many forces coming to bear on NE Oregon and I learned so
much
there that I don't know where to begin or how to keep this account
understandable and in a readable length but I will try and I ask that
you
not be discouraged by its' length.
Coming Into the Country -
The Idaho paper (I flew in and out of Boise) featured a front-page
article
about how the US Forest Service, The Western Watershed Project, the
Wilderness Society, and the Hell's Canyon Preservation Council are
acting on
recommendations of the Nez Perce Tribe to eliminate all sheep grazing in
public lands on the Idaho side of Hell's Canyon because "domestic
sheep
transmit diseases" to bighorn sheep. This was in spite of
"a 1997 agreement
between the states of
Association, and the Forest Service that allowed further reintroductions
in
exchange for an agreement that grazing would not be impaired".
This is also
in spite of a statement from the supervisor of the Animal Disease and
Food
Safety Laboratory in
zero impact on the health status of bighorn sheep populations in the
western
cougars" went unaddressed in the article and was obviously of no
concern to
the Gang of Five cited above.
The
Kennedy will speak on 28 May in
Destiny". Tickets are $45 and $100.
On the same day the paper ran an article about how "
enough wolves". In spite of permitting aerial gunning and
bounties and long
hunting seasons only 175 of the targeted 664 were killed and only one of
five areas met their goal. While all the "usual
suspects" continue to sue
to stop Alaska's wolf control efforts, there is no mention of the canard
being circulated by bureaucrats, professors, and assorted ne'er-do-wells
here in the lower 48 that "once wolves are delisted in the lower
48, they
can be controlled in accordance with state plans". In
take most of the animals (sic, harvested wolves) for their hides"
but all
the pro-wolf folks are mostly anti-trap and anti-trapping advocates too.
Methinks I smell a rat. Wolf "control" has always been
an impossible task,
with today's' land ownerships, all the anti-(kill, management, use,
harvest,
etc.) bureaucrats, politicians, radical lawsuit centers, and aerial
hunt/poison prohibitions it is even more so as the wolves spread like
the
diseases and harms and dangers they carry with them. The wolf
radicals and
the old and new-type bureaucrats (that always think only of themselves)
knew
that it took posses, poisons, cooperative landowners and government and
traps and access to wherever the wolves den or move and it still took
years.
The local
Service budget while boosting "firefighting funding by 21
percent". There
is no mention of the millions of acres closed to logging in recent years
and
all the Wilderness Areas (no-uses, no-management, and no roads to fight
fires) and the 100's of millions of board feet of wood being added as
standing and downed fire fuel each year. There is no mention of
the role of
grazing in minimizing fire-fuel build-up or the ruinous impacts of the
elimination of these uses on the local communities and rural families.
There is also no mention about how stopping logging and eliminating
grazing
and closing roads and letting game species decline has greatly reduced
public land incomes available to manage the areas as well as all but
eliminating revenue-sharing funds for local governments.
The local
calves are killed by cougars". (
voters in
dog packs, the only reliable and effective way to kill cougars.
Since then
cougar numbers and cougar depredations have skyrocketed, and hunter
kills of
cougars like elk and deer numbers have plummeted. As elsewhere, when dog
hunting is banned the traditions and skills involved in training and
managing a dog pack disappear like so many other useful skills and
traditions like utilizing unwanted horses or trapping in
article consoles us with "bull elk topped the old mark"
"spotted last
spring" because "regulations limit the number of bull elk that
can be
taken". How anyone can believe that protecting bull elk and
bragging about
their "abundance" while calves disappear and cow numbers go
unmentioned,
betokens elk hunting in the future is beyond me (same-sex tolerance
doesn't
betoken future population health here either in spite of government
policies
or tolerance). To add insult to this puff piece on elk, on the
same page
another article informs us that elk "Tags on the Starkey
Experimental Forest
Hunts will be cut" "in Area 252R from 86 to 25" and
"in Area 252 D from 55
to 11". Elk and elk hunting are in serious trouble and it is
just getting
worse. Note that wolves are just entering here from
(very efficient elk-calf killing machines) are being steered this way
too by
government and the radicals, but more on this later.
In the same section of the local paper on the same date there is a
Fishing
Report lauding the catching of small mouth bass, largemouth bass,
crappies,
bluegills, catfish, brook trout, brown trout, and yellow perch in
various
reservoirs, lakes, and streams. I hope no one is really enjoying
this
fishing because when the Federal government claims a mandate to
"Eradicate
Invasive Species" and "Restore Native Ecosystems" (just
like they simply
passed an unconstitutional law that outlawed cockfighting and the
slaughter
of horses) ALL THOSE FISH JUST MENTIONED WILL BE TARGETED FOR EXTINCTION
IN OREGON SINCE THEY ARE ALL "INTRODUCED" OR
"NON-NATIVE" SPECIES.
Note
further on in this report that the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection
Act
(among many other very harmful things) sets aside over a Million Acres
and
millions of dollars to "Rejuvenate" "NATIVE fisheries and
wildlife
populations". On the same page of the paper the Oregon
Department of Fish
and Wildlife recommends "calling" cougars as a way to kill
them (outside a
2-month closed season that is about as justifiable as planning to
encourage
grizzlies and wolves in this area). As much as I believe cougar
populations
are more than excessive and in need of trimming for human safety and
their
impacts on human lives, pets, stock, big-game, etc. and as much as I
think
of myself as having "nerve"; "calling" cougars is
about as dangerous and
ineffective a control method as I can imagine. But heck, even if
some kid
tries it and gets "nailed" by a cougar after listening to ODFW
suggestions,
will anyone at ODFW be held responsible? I don't think so. That is
called
having the best of both worlds (the imaginary one of animal rights and
the
real one of rural
at this.
And thus I arrived in
Touring The Country -
The valley is communities of ranches and farms cut by beautiful streams
and
ringed with spectacular peaks. The mountains are nearly all wooded
public
land and the
farms and ranches and irrigation ditches and some delightful small towns
supporting families working hard to make a living. The nearest
Indian
Reservation is many miles away from Joseph and
of the Symposium attendees came from. Two days of driving around and
speaking to people was an education in itself:
- The public lands are
nearly all National Forests mostly encumbered
with Wilderness Designated Areas.
- The Forest Service has
stopped all logging and is eliminating
grazing and closing some roads while simply abandoning others. Access,
like
uses, becomes more academic each year
- Forest Service
campgrounds are being closed while "dispersed"
camping is encouraged but only within 100 yards of the few remaining
roads
in certain areas.
- The Taj Mahal-like log
cabin palace that sits on a high Valley
hill and houses two Ranger District Offices and a big museum of stuffed
critters did not know where two Forest Service employees were that I
wanted
to ask about getting a copy of the new Draft Forest Service Travel
Management Plan. The big outdoor information/education board of
pictures
(20-30?) as you approach the building shows all sorts of
There is NO picture of any USE whatsoever. No logging, no
ranching, no
sheep, no cattle, no hunting (not for grouse or hares or cougars or elk
or
deer -nothing), no fishing (I mistakenly thought one picture was about
fishing but it was only a guy releasing a sturgeon that we were told was
endangered and had to be released unharmed).
- We stopped at a remote
Overlook high in the mountains that offered
a spectacular view of many drainages and
There were hundreds of acres of dead trees visible nearby and no cattle
or
sheep or wildlife anywhere. A man sat in another pickup quietly
glassing
the areas with his binoculars when we pulled up. When we let the
dogs out
of our pickup to get some exercise, the man walked over and introduced
himself. He was an ex-logger. His father and grandfather
were loggers
right here in these mountains. He pointed down to canyons and
valleys that
not so long ago had ranches and families and big game and logging.
No more:
the Forest Service (at the behest of Congress and radical organizations)
had
forced out and then purchased all the ranchers and grazers and stopped
logging for no reason other than they "didn't have enough
biological
justification". Steadily in recent years Wilderness Areas
have grown,
Roadless Areas have sprouted, grazing allotments have been eliminated
and
hunting has declined as big game and access (both to get in and to haul
out
a carcass) has been restricted. Now that WOLVES ARE COMING INTO
THE
COUNTRY, BIRD DOGS AND RABBIT DOGS WILL DISAPPEAR AFTER A FEW ARE KILLED
BY THE WOLVES and the hunting tradition, like the dog use and training
tradition will wither. The anti-hunters will say it was Kismet
while all
along knowing it was their political influence and bureaucrat
"partners" and
the heavy hand of the Federal policies that did it. The Forest Service
allows NO harvest of dead (from either disease or fire) timber in NE
Oregon
just like they did in Northern Minnesota after the big storm of rain and
wind that killed and blew down millions of acres of trees in the late
90's
and now is burning ferociously on the Canadian border near The Gunflint
Trail. He told us that the
of timber a year. Only about 35 to 40 Million is still outside the
Wilderness/Critical Habitat/Roadless, etc. designations and therefore
available for management and harvest but it is also just building up as
fire
fuel and kept unavailable for harvest as lumber prices soar (like oil
prices
as we refuse to drill) and local communities shrivel. Logging is
as opposed
by today's Forest Service as hunting is opposed by the National Park
Service
ever since its inception. Attempts to authorize logging are
resisted by the
Federal bureaucrats, taken into Court by radical "ambulance
chaser"
environmental groups, and finally simply dropped because of "no
funding to
biologically determine the Ecosystem effects on every forbe, mouse, and
invertebrate". This last quote is simply mine but you get the
point. He
went on to mention how his kids have left and how he sees no hope to
remedy
the insanity. The Federal bureaucrats are all tinker-belle tree
huggers
without the slightest bit of common sense or practical experience or
understanding of managing renewable natural resources for the benefit of
man. At the State level (like New Jersey, Illinois, Massachusetts,
California, Washington et al) the urban dreamers and radicals (the urban
majority) control the Oregon state legislature and the State and Federal
politicians who cater to their imagined whims about predators, logging,
ranching, dogs, rural life, etc. As we drove off it was as if we
had just
spoken to someone in church about how the culture is eroding all around
with
no remedy in sight but quiet prayer.
- A short while later we
stopped and spoke with a rancher moving
cattle to summer range on a prairie expanse of grass called the Zumwalt
Prairie. He spoke of how the Nature Conservancy is buying up the
Prairie
and closing it to grazing and hunting. How the elk are crowding on
to his
pastures because they eat the grass stubble left after the cattle nub it
down and do not use the thicker pastures growing up on The Nature
Conservancy lands. We spoke about the likelihood of TNC reselling
the land
and the stupidity of selling TNC or one of the Land Trusts an easement
on
your land. There was mention of Indian (the Nez Perce Tribe far
off in
cooperative "enforcement powers" with the Forest Service and
how the Nez
Perce are slated to manage a planned Federal fish hatchery as their
claims
and aggressiveness proliferate in the Valley. The likely purchase
of the
Zumwalt Prairie by the Federal government (Forest Service or Park
Service)
from TNC (at a hefty profit to tax-exempt TNC of course) and the
mysterious
Indian role with both TNC and with the Federal bureaucracies and the
lack of
any State role were all of concern.
- People in towns spoke
of the increased aggressive behavior of
Indian customers about how they "own" the area. People
were trying to find
out from Forest Service "how" and "why" Indian
tribes were involved in all
the land use changes and future regulation of the Valley and mountains
but
were not given answers.
- I happened to pick up
a very fancy four-page (brochure?
mini-booklet?) titled NEZ PERCE (Nee Me Poo) NATIONAL HISTORIC TRAIL -
Foundation, US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of
Land
Management, and National Park Service. I strongly recommend you
get a copy
of this government map and look at the circled "Nez Perce
Homelands" that
includes
this is an Official government map outlining "Homelands" of
formerly nomadic
tribes. Think about what these Indian "claims" result
in, in today's
Think about how this overlaps "Corridors" on
"Wildlands" Project maps and
grizzly/wolf "corridors" from
"Roadless Areas" and closed public lands. Think about all the
TNC
involvement and Land Trust involvement and Forest Service/Park
Service/Fish
and Wildlife Service machinations in these lands (public AND private).
Read
the anti-American accounts of settlement and the sanitizing of Indian
actions and motivations and then think about buried Americans every bit
as
beloved and respected by their descendants as are the equally brave
Indians
buried in this "Homeland" and then consider the American
"dream" of equality
and then consider what is going on today. Consider all the
Congressmen that have Indians on their staffs today. It is either
coincidence or conspiracy based on casino donations in the Millions but
it
indicates a silent and extensive influence in the highest halls of
government far in excess of population or most of our understanding of
current issues before government. Indian "Preference",
Indian casino money
and political influence, and their role with these bureaucracies and
radical
environmentalists and animal rights extremists and the tax-exempt NGO's
and
"Foundations" deserves far more attention that it has received
to date.
- The day before our
Symposium in the same building was an afternoon
"dog and pony" show by a Land Trust (or was it a Rangeland
Trust or
whatever) about selling property rights to these groups. I sat
through part
of it and watched people being told their taxes would
"probably" be lowered
(not true) and that they would only be occasionally visited by some
young
lady to see how things are going instead of how their land will really
be
monitored by government satellite and that court cases to prosecute
Owner/Easement Holders will be eagerly sought as a "message"
to all other
easement holders that they better be very careful "in
perpetuity". The next
day (the day of our Symposium there was to be a free bus and caravan and
lunch for an all day trip to The Nature Conservancy lands on the Zumwalt
Prairie. Hmmm.
THE SYMPOSIUM -
Speakers included:
- A lawyer from
claims and Indian government actions.
- A long-serving
Legislator) with a long and outstanding record of preserving
sovereignty and traditions against all manner of Federal and
outside-Montana
forces. She recently obtained passage (to everyone's surprise and by a
wide
margin) of a sense of the Montana Legislature being opposed to the
recently
proposed (in the US Congress) Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act.
- A lady from the
Klamath Farm Area in Northern California that
explained how Federal bureaucracies, and Indian Tribes, and
Environmental
extremism organizations, and urban constituencies, and pandering
politicians, and "neutered" State bureaucracies, and lies
about salmon and
suckers, and insidious Acts like The Endangered Species Act have harmed
and
destroyed farmers and farming and families and communities in SW Oregon
and
N California. (She also gave me some delicious organic horseradish
and
horseradish mustard grown and bottled on her farm.)
- A lady that taught me
more about the modern American/Native
American interface than I could have ever imagined. Did you know
that
George Washington referred to Indians as "My Brothers" and
that only after
President Jefferson began referring to Indians as "My
Children" did American
explorers and soldiers and settlers begin telling the Indians about a
"Great
White Father" and treating them as simply dangerous
"Children" (albeit often
extremely dangerous ones)? Knowing this it becomes more
understandable
about how national expansion excluded Native Americans and resulted in
the
"reservations" where they were simply excluded in so many ways
from the
progress and equality and dreams being pursued all around them. I
highly
recommend her book, GOING TO PIECES, The Dismantling of the
America
Elaine D. Williams,
I was asked to speak about the "New" "Draft" Forest
Service Travel
Management Plan, the recently introduced "Northern Rockies
Ecosystem
Protection Act", and wolves.
Some Background:
- The Forest Service
Travel Management Plan was recently mentioned
in a news release. It is a (proposal? done deal?) to go way beyond
the
current Forest Service Wilderness Areas closures, Roadless Area
declarations, and Critical Habitat claims AND CLOSE THOUSANDS OF MILES
OF
ROADS, TRAILS, PATHS, AND TRAVEL ENABLERS THROUGHOUT the National Forest
System. I went online and found out it is NOT AVAILABLE online.
I called a
a recording and a call-back three days later when I was gone.
(NOTE: As I
write this 9 days later upon returning from a
hung up on a call from
sessions this week in 3
and "The People" will have 45 days to "comment"
before it is implemented as
designed.)
- The Democrats in the
US House of Representatives and many
Republicans and 3 Oregon Congresspersons have recently introduced The
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act. This will declare 20.5
Million
Acres of public lands in the "northern
"designate 1,810 miles of Wild, Scenic, and
"establish "a system of Biological Linkage CORRIDORS to
connect the region's
core WILDLANDS" (3.4 Million Acres). It will "establish a
system of WILDLAND
Restoration Areas" (1 Million Acres) where "NATIVE fisheries
and wildlife
populations will be REJUVENATED". It will designate a large
area next to
American USES and treaty rights are fully protected."
("Wilderness" & "USES"??)
It will add two units to the National Park System. 285,000 Acres
"adjacent
to
maintain "traditional uses such as hunting, fishing and firewood
gathering
and SOME motorized use". If this same ploy is the scam
(Mojave "Preserve"
under the Park Service in California) pulled a couple of years ago in
California it is only a short matter of time until "plinking"
is prohibited,
hunting seasons (if the cougars, wolves, and approaching grizzly bears
don't
make it all academic first) will be found to be "insufficiently
justified
biologically", and in-holding land owners will find their land
records
missing and Park Service personnel will harass landowners they want to
evict
at 2 AM and just laugh at local law enforcement deputies that ask them
to
desist. This Hell's Canyon - Chief Joseph Park will engulf NE
Oregon and be
the final nail in its destruction as a usable and productive part of the
United States of America. I ask EVERY CONCERNED AMERICAN to find
out if
your Congressman has "sponsored" (over 180 did) this Act or
plans to vote
for it. IF THEY SAY YES, PLEASE WORK TO DEFEAT THEM or your area
will
eventually suffer what they have in store for
Rockies Ecosystem".
- Wolves are crossing
the
cougars. Grizzlies are being planned to follow through the
"Corridors" and
"Wildlands" and "Wilderness" mentioned in the above
bill and in the
increasingly closed areas in the "secret" and
euphemistically-named "Travel
Management Plan" (sounds like "Expedia-dot-com" don't you
think?)
My talk covered a wide range of topics:
- How there are
similarities between what is going on here and in
Florida with Everglades "Restoration"; what is going on in
Nebraska and
Colorado with Federal land and water claims; what is going on in Maine
with
TNC; what is going on with Wisconsin wolves and Florida panthers and
black
bears.
- How the bureaucrats
lie and mislead and co-opt State agencies like
the NPS establishing the Delaware Water Gap Recreation Area; and the
USACoE
& NPS & FWS & NMFS & DC government polluting the Potomac
River and
Endangered Sturgeon spawning beds for years by nighttime dumping of
poisons;
how the nonsense about grizzly bears and lynx "needing"
Roadless Areas is
pure propaganda spun later into partial justification for more takeovers
like "Travel Management Plans" and new "Parks" and
"Wilderness".
- How two retired guys
in
attempt by FWS and State employees to gain control of a
and a highway and "viewsheds" and how they made them go away
at least for
the present. I shared the document they created with others.
There was
also a casino and casino licensing claims and rumors swirling around
during
this fiasco too.
- How the Federal
government no longer has ANY qualms about elbowing
state and local government aside as well as American citizens.
Recent
Federal laws outlawing crossing state lines for a cockfight and
outlawing
the right of horse owners to slaughter their unwanted horses are two
examples. These emotional laws are simple pandering by politicians
to
people who simply dislike what others and their "ancestors for
generations
and centuries" (like Indian "traditions and customs"??)
and will vote for
and send money to politicians that deny other Americans their property
rights, traditions, and heritage. They are repugnant to anyone who
cherishes freedom and understands the principles of Republics. But
each of
these things only affect "others" we all say. Like the
dog owners and
veterinarians who feel sanctimonious up until it is their turn in the
barrel.
- I recommended filing
Freedom of Information Requests about things
like "Indian enforcement" or "Travel Management"
planning, etc. I even
showed them how to go about it and why, since you can no longer trust
any
political appointee or bureaucrat to file FOIAs simultaneously to the
Secretaries of Ag and Interior and the Heads of each agency (FWS, FS,
NPS, &
BIA).
- The fact that I could
not obtain a copy of the Travel Management
Plan is a travesty indicative of the adversarial relationship between
government and its "partners" versus the American public
slated to be
affected by government actions. This Plan will further importune
rural
communities and their economies as well as hunting, fishing, trapping,
wildlife management and rural life. The reason they get away with
all this
is because NO ONE ANY LONGER REPRESENTS US. Our politicians look
away.
Federal bureaucrats feather their own nests. "Our"
organizations do not
represent us (Rocky Mtn. Elk Foundation supports wolves, Trout Unlimited
support INVASIVE SPECIES eradication, National Beef Cattlemen's plant
lobbyist is now a Public Affairs employee of FWS, State fish and
wildlife
agencies do WHATEVER IT TAKES TO ASSURE NEW AND INCREASED FEDERAL
FUNDING, THROUGH FWS OF COURSE, FOR SIMPLE ECOSYSTEM MONITORING AND
"PRESERVATION" INSTEAD OF MEASURABLE AND ACCOUNTABLE WILDLIFE
MANAGEMENT GOALS.
- I spoke at length
about the problems that will arrive with wolves
and particularly the fact that the recent 100-page Oregon Department of
Fish
and Wildlife Wolf Management Plan (just like the Federal
"Recovery" Plan)
doesn't even mention all the deadly diseases that wolves carry and
transmit.
I talked about anthrax, and brucellosis, and rabies, and foot and mouth,
and
mad cow, and chronic wasting disease, and neosporosis caninum, and all
the
parasites wolves carry internally and transmit in their feces. I
told them
how I asked the Oregon State Veterinarian and the Oregon fish and
wildlife
Veterinarian about this two years ago at a meeting of the Oregon
Cattlemen
and how the Vets admitted there was no "research" but since
they were
"veterinarians, they knew" and how the two of them left that
room after the
meeting like two rabbits at a greyhound race. But still it goes
unmentioned.
- I talked about all the
abuse by NPS at a similar "Preserve" in
- I warned them about
the dangerous times we are in. Gargantuan
Park and Wilderness Proposals in Congress. A President signing off
on
travesties like outlawing cockfighting travel and horse slaughter; and
now
"considering" the long-discredited and
step-toward-world-government Law of
the Sea Treaty. The rush to think the sky is falling over global
warming so
big government and more restrictions are the only answer is also
ominous.
The current Republican (and former Idaho Governor) Secretary of the
Interior
setting an incredibly unjust precedent that if ice is thinning in some
spots
temporarily we "must List" Polar Bears under the Endangered
Species Act.
Well, #1 the idea that an overly abundant critter (there are more than 5
or
6 times as many as there were 30 years ago and they were hunted and
doing
fine then) should be "Listed" because of a habitat change
(maybe more seals
as there are will go North with less ice and so feed the polar bears
that
they will be fat, dumb, happy, and prolific?) when bears are very
adaptable
critters is a dangerous legal precedent and #2 these bears have been
fully
"protected" for thirty five years by the absolute (and
unconstitutional)
Marine Mammal Protection Act: so this "listing is just political
grandstanding.
- Speaking of political
grandstanding and 35 years brought me to my
gravest warning of all. 35 plus years ago a Democratic House of
Representatives was obsessed with what they held was the unjust
reelection
of President Nixon. We were involved with the withdrawal from and
betrayal
of
that exposed acidic hatreds amongst many Americans. As tough
decisions
about
Democrats smelled blood in the water and Republicans sought to appear as
being as "caring" as their political opponents: something
funny happened.
The environmental radicals, and animal rights extremists, and cultural
socialists suddenly were being catered to by politicians worried about
hanging on to power. In short order, Roe v Wade and The Endangered
Species
Act and The Marine Mammal Protection Act and The Animal Welfare Act
emerged
to rule the land. The United States plunged ever deeper into the
UN and
adapted policies like opposing whaling by other nations and forcing
Third
World Countries to tolerate and forgo development while overpopulated
elephants and crocodiles killed people and destroyed crops and fisheries
and
untreated mosquitoes (mustn't use DDT) were shameful and reprehensible
policies for any nation to adopt. Today we have a Democrat
Congress
assaulting a Republican president with awful venom.
attention of many Americans. Wilderness and Parks and the spread
of deadly
and harmful animals proliferate. The
and Kyoto Treaties in spite of their clear and debilitating effects on
this
country and our sovereignty. We moan about gas prices as we refuse
to allow
refinery construction or expansion or to drill for the oil we know we
have
in many locations. We simply use an outgoing President's
"Executive Order"
to keep the second largest deposit of low-sulfur coal in the world in
the
ground as nearby states whine for more and cheaper power. We
support
bird-killing wind propellers that produce little power when it is needed
and
imagine (foolishly like the environmental and animal rights imaginings
driving the harms all around NE Oregon) that simply legislating higher
mileage for new cars will "solve" our "energy
crisis" and reduce the flow of
millions of dollars to nations full of terrorists that want to kill us
all.
These are not only dangerous times: they are the sort of political times
where politicians want all kinds of "feel-good" diversions of
our attention
while they connive and care for themselves rather than us just like 35
to 40
years ago. The kind of times when the forces arrayed around
empowered. The kind of times when "all good men must come to
the aid of
their country".
- I concluded with some
suggestions like reforming University
curriculums in the natural resource areas. Repealing or amending
bad laws.
Forcing elected state and Federal politicians to exercise their
responsibility to oversee and manage instead of manipulate
bureaucracies.
Reversing the slide into a Federal dictatorship by reasserting States
Rights
by electing tough State politicians and only hiring loyal (to the State)
employees. Eliminating "Preferences" from sex and race
to Native, this will
allow qualifications and performance to reassert themselves (this is
badly
needed). Read the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence
often:
you will be pleasantly surprised by the vision and insights and ideas
they
can spur.
So there you have it. Not exactly the bureaucrats' vision or the
view seen
by The Nature Conservancy or the Indian Tribes. Not what the
hunting
organizations or state fish and wildlife agencies want said. Not
what the
Federal politicians want known and not what the universities will admit
is
the truth. Not what the urban (blue) voters want to hear and not
what the
rural (red) voters want to address nationally. Not what dog owners
want to
know is the future (none) of bird-hunting dogs or rabbit dogs or
watchdogs
or even pets other than to be torn apart by a cougar or wolf or grizzly
that
bureaucrats and radicals protect yet have not one ounce of
responsibility
for.
It IS what the families and communities of
plan to stand up to or be swept away from their homes and way of life
and
the places of THEIR "ancestors". It "ain't"
pretty and it "ain't" going to
be easy but it must be done. If the residents get swept away
without a
fight, shame on them: if they get swept away in spite of doing their
best
shame on the government and all its "partners". If the
residents win; like
Alexander's conquest of the mighty and larger Babylonian army, "Men
will
speak of it for Ages".
Jim Beers
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- This article and other recent articles by Jim Beers can be found at
http://jimbeers.blogster.com (Jim Beers Common Sense)
- Jim Beers is available for consulting or to speak. Contact:
jimbeers7@verizon.net
- Jim Beers is a
retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist,
Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional
Fellow.
He was stationed in
Pacific and on
Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security
Supervisor in
twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45
to 60
Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to
expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in