Environmentalists and their allies in federal and state government were
never called upon to apologize and were never sent to jail or required to
pay restitution to their multitude of victims.
Building on the success of ‘endangered species’ to stop land use, some
environmentalists went the extra mile and planted evidence of ‘endangered
species’ presence where the species do not exist, for the purpose of
shutting down land use.
Government wildlife biologists in Oregon planted, and then ’discovered’
and
reported, lynx hairs in a forest they wanted closed to all human
activity
except their own. Fortunately, the biologists were caught.
Laboratory
analysis showed that some of the hairs were from a stuffed lynx and other
hairs came from a captive lynx. Recently in California, thirty specimens
of
an ‘endangered’ plant, the Sebastopol meadow foam, were determined to have
been transplanted to stop housing construction at the Laguna Vista
subdivision in Sebastopol. Environmentalists were trying to stop
the
construction project because of a nearby wetland. Criminal investigation
into the matter is presently ongoing.
Environmental organizations and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are
drafting new regulations concerning the Upper Mississippi River National
Wildlife and Fish Refuge in Minnesota. The new regulations will close
many
areas traditionally open to hunting, fishing and recreation, and place
burdensome restrictions on the use of still more areas within the Refuge.
It’s part of the longstanding pattern of slowly regulating people out of
large land and water areas that are to be ‘returned to Nature.’ This
’rewilding’ is demanded by The Wildlands Project which seeks to entirely
eliminate people from 50% of North America and to place the few remaining
people in the other 50% of North America under tight federal and United
Nations control.
There is a 4,300-acres Refuge, similar to the Minnesota refuge, which was
created in the year 2000 on four former islands now connected with
nearby
land, along a 60-miles section of the Mississippi River south of St. Louis,
Missouri. The Middle Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge website
mentions the desire to acquire an additional 14,000 acres to expand the
Refuge.
The Middle Mississippi River Partnership also has grander plans, and
proposes in its May 2005 Vision Plan to eventually control land use and to
create new fish and wildlife refuges on 546,030 acres of productive,
privately owned farm land along the Mississippi river floodplain between St.
Louis, Missouri, and Cairo, Illinois. Partnership members include
federal
and state wildlife agencies, hunting organizations, environmental
organizations, and Southern Illinois University.
Government agencies and environmental organizations have a strong track
record of promising wonderful environmental and economic benefits if only
people will accept a refuge for some ‘endangered’ plant or animal, and
then
regulating people out of all beneficial use of the land once the refuge is
established. The land is taken from its owners but promised benefits to
local people never appear. Economies and communities -- human habitat --
are destroyed.
Enter, the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker, which has had no other documented
sightings in the United States since the year 1946, 59 years ago.
People living in the town of Cotton Plant near the Cache River National
Wildlife Refuge in Arkansas, midway between Little Rock and Memphis, are all
a-twitter over sightings of the Ivory-Bill and hope to receive instant
wealth from eco-tourism and flocks of birders expected to sweep into town to
catch a glimpse of the rare bird.
But is the sudden appearance of an Ivory-Billed Woodpecker after 59 years of
absence a blessing from Nature or another private land theft eco-swindle
organized by Gang Green environmental organizations and money-hungry
government wildlife agencies?
I smell a rat.
There is simply too much coincidence between the push to create and expand
local wildlife refuges, including huge expansion of the new Middle
Mississippi River National Wildlife Refuge which will eventually run people
off hundreds of thousands of acres of productive, privately owned, river
floodplain land, and the miraculous and timely reappearance in Arkansas’
nearby Cache River National Wildlife Refuge of a bird extirpated from the
United States for more than half a century.
Swamps, woodlands and fields of eastern Arkansas are, and have been,
crawling with wildlife people since long before the last Ivory-Billed
Woodpecker vanished. The farms and woodlands are populated with resident
folks and visiting hunters. Are we to believe that, in fifty nine years,
Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers lived in the forest and hid so successful that
nobody saw, heard, or reported their presence, saw abandoned nests, or found
a dead one dragged in by the cat?
The woodpecker has a striking appearance, a black body with a white patch on
the back, and a red head crest. It is a big bird, and makes a loud,
two-part sound as it pecks wood: BAM-bam, BAM-bam, BAM-bam.
Does anyone really believe that a big black-and-white red-headed bird flying
around the woods for fifty nine years and hammering on trees with a
distinctive sound would not be noticed and reported by someone, or more
likely by hundreds of someones, particularly by bird watchers and bird
scientists for whom the discovery would be a feather in their professional
cap?
It is far more likely that the bird really was gone from the Arkansas woods
all that time, and was reintroduced by Gang Green environmental activists or
government wildlife agents so that it could be ‘discovered’ in March,
2005,
just in time to become another ‘endangered species’ tool for condemnation
and unconstitutional conversion of private property to federal government
ownership and United Nations land control along the banks of the Mississippi
River.
I smell a rat.
Ivory-Billed Woodpeckers are not extinct. They still live in the
mountains
of Cuba. Did someone trap specimens in Cuba and then transport the birds
to
eastern Arkansas for release in the big forested swamp that is now coming
under ownership attack by government agencies and Gang Green environmental
organizations? What better tool for those who want to flush out all
those
hideous, polluting humans, to restore Gaia’s Glorious Wilderness and advance
The Wildlands Project!
The ’endangered’ woodpecker is potentially a giant land condemnation tool,
as the original range of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker covered 50 million
acres of southern forest extending eastward from Arkansas through Florida.
Five million acres of that forest, coveted by environmentalists, remain
today. Potentially affected states lie within a huge rectangle, starting
in
Missouri and including all states southward to Texas, all states from
Missouri eastward to North Carolina, and extending all the way to the
Atlantic ocean and Gulf of Mexico.
“Millions of acres” will be demanded by Gang Green environmental
organizations to ‘save the woodpecker.’ Farms will be shut down,
roads
closed and destroyed, timber lands condemned, business bankrupted, local tax
bases destroyed, hunting and fishing ended, and immense areas of land placed
‘off limits’ to human use as demanded by The Wildlands Project.
Universities will get millions of dollars in wildlife grants to study the
bird, and state and federal wildlife agencies and environmental
organizations will get huge increases in grants, funding, and personnel.
Already, $10,500,000 has been committed for land acquisition to expand
Ivory-Billed woodpecker refuge. Five thousand acres of the Cache
River
Refuge have been closed to public use.
It all fits together too well, and too conveniently. The sudden
reappearance of the Ivory-Billed woodpecker in eastern Arkansas is not a
wildlife recovery matter, it is a matter for criminal investigation by the
Attorneys General of Arkansas and all adjacent states. This smells and
looks like another Gang Green land-grab ripoff of gigantic size and scope,
coupled with illegal international trapping, transportation and release of
an ‘endangered“ bird.
Too many people, environmental organizations and government agencies stand
to profit, and too many citizens stand to lose their land and livelihood,
and too many rural areas stand to lose their economy and tax base, as
federal and state wildlife agencies and Gang Green wildlife organizations
force unwilling landowners to become ‘willing sellers’ of their land.
Rush Limbaugh is right when he says, “The environmental movement is the
modern home of the Communist Party in America.” One of the Communist
Party’s longstanding goals is transfer of all land and natural resources
from private ownership and use to government ownership and control, as The
Wildlands Project demands.
The recent Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. New London, Connecticut,
empowering government to compete with its own citizens through eminent
domain condemnation of one person’s land for purchase and business use by
another person, could be used to condemn and acquire thousands of acres of
farms and woods by anyone, including tax-exempt not-for-profit Gang Green
environmental organizations that might propose to build a woodpecker
watchers resort. The woodpecker resort would never actually have to be
built. The newly vacant land could then be sold to a speculator at a
large
profit and would not have to be returned to its former owners.
I small rats, rats, rats everywhere. Their stench is strong in the
forests
of eastern Arkansas.
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William Jud
(Posted with permission of the author)