Note: This is NOT a joke!
New Mexico Forest Restoration Principles Announced by Diverse Task Force
ALBUQUERQUE (May 17, 2006)-In an unprecedented collaborative effort, 13
organizations jointly announced the release of the New Mexico Forest
Restoration Principles that will reduce conflict and legal challenges for
forest harvesting projects in New Mexico. The 18-member New Mexico Biomass
Evaluation Task Force announced today publication of 18 principles for the
design and implementation of forest restoration projects that would produce
small-diameter wood used to fuel biomass power plants and other wood
utilizing facilities.
New Mexico Biomass Evaluation Taskforce
Primary Contact List
Primary Contact List
Name
Affiliation
Phone
Patrick McCarthy
The Nature Conservancy
505-988-1542, x 217
Mike DeBonis
Forest Guild
505-983-8992, x 14
Dave Borland
USDI Bureau of Land Management
505-438-7523
Margot Wilson
Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter
505-744-5860
Jerry Payne
USDAForest Service
505-842-3391
Todd Schulke
Center for Biological Diversity
505-388-8799
Kim Kostelnik
NM State Forestry
505-476-3337
John Waconda
USDI Bureau of Indian Affairs
505-563-3360
Bryan Bird
Forest Guardians
505-988-9126, x 157
John Tunberg
USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service
505-761- 4488
Jim Norwick
NM State Land Office
505-827-5095
Brent Racher
Restoration Solutions
505-627-7577
Marc Christensen
Public Service Company of New Mexico
505-241-2882
Rosemary Romero
Rosemary Romero Consulting (Facilitator)
505-982-9805
This "Taskforce" billed as "Diverse" and that has
"announced the release of
the New Mexico Forest Restoration Principles that will reduce conflict and
legal challenges for forest harvesting projects in New Mexico" tells it all
by what it does NOT say. It is a glimpse into a dark future, the future
only imagined in science fiction novels like Fahrenheit 451 and the
Orwellian 1984.
Just as Orwell observed in 1984 and Animal Farm, and Carroll noted in Alice
in Wonderland "words mean no more and no less than I mean them to".
To use
the word "Diverse" about this "Taskforce" is like calling
one of those old
Mafia get-togethers a "cross-section of America." Where are the
people
directly affected by the "New Mexico Forest Restoration Principles"?
Where
are the ranchers and farmers and sheepmen and the hunters and the rural
residents and rural town governments? Who spoke for the private landowner
and the public land user? Who looked out for rural businesses and future
road expansions and improvements? Who represented County governments?
Who
represented all the rural employment needs? Who represented government
costs and private property rights? Bureaucrats, consultants, and the
powerful Non-government organizations with all their radical agendas that
run the show, that's who. The Founding Fathers knew the danger of giving
power to elite rulers but decades of affluence and belief in a growing
hodgepodge of nonsense that masks the hidden agendas of those who would rule
us has led us to think the elites "know best".
Look at that "Contact List" and think about the future of hunting and
ranching and fishing and farming and pet ownership in America. Soon enough
it will be the USDA and HSUS and PETA setting the "New Animal Guardianship
Rules". Then there will be Greenpeace and the Commerce Department
setting
the "New Fish Sanctuary and Boatpath Rules". Then based on
"precedents"
there will be the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Defenders of Wildlife and
World Wildlife Fund setting the "New Native Ecosystem Preservation
Rules"
and the US Forest Service and the Wilderness Society and Sierra Club setting
the "New Urban Corridor Connection Rules". All the while the
papers and
press releases will chirp about the "Diverse Task Force" and how it
"will
reduce conflict and legal challenges".
George Orwell and Ray Bradbury and Lewis Carroll were all correct and
insightful in what they wrote. Only thing is we thought they were
describing a future totalitarian society or Russia under communism or
England during the Victorian period. Who'd a "thunk" they were
talking
about the USA in 2006?
Jim Beers
15 June 2006
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- Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife
Biologist,
Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow.
He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and
Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western
Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the
Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security
Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress;
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 Centreville,
Virginia with his wife of many decades.