Smart-growth? 

Pioneer Press

Fort Jones, CA

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

page 19 col 2

pioneerp@sisqtel.net

To the Editor:

The People who love what freedom we have left and want to increase it's abundance had better wake up and see how our bondage is unfolding through the Houses of Law in Washington D C. under the Changes Obama promised.

Ever since John Muir formed The Sierra Club, beginning in the late 1800's, they have had an on-going plot to remove from our use all the land and water they can and preserve it for posterity so "they" will be able to enjoy it. What a farce! They are doing this through systems of Law and say this will be accomplished in 50 years.

Have you heard of Y2Y- Yellowstone to Yukon? It was formed as a Bill about three years ago. It was founded to give more land to the animals to roam and create North America's longest wildlife corridor. It is 1,800 miles long and 2 million acres. The Senate passed this humongous 2 million acres of land and water for Wilderness, it will go before the House whenever. The Fish and Wildlife favor this bill and it is supported by over 300 environmental groups as well as our Government! There has got to be something wrong with the F/W, for they are also supporting the removal of our Green electrical supply, the four dams north of here. It looks like the Department of Interior is in cahoots with the Wildlanders. I know Obama is, and so are all of the traitors in our Senate and House, for they gave them millions of dollars from the stimulus bill!

This Y2Y Bill (Senate Bill 5064) was conceived by Harvey Locke, past president of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Association, when he learned that a wolf had traveled 500 miles. Over 100 environmental groups helped him. Reed Noss, who is a contractor and scientific advisor to the Department of Interior (DOI) said, that without connecting the protected areas that already exist and without establishing buffer zones, ecosystems are thrown out of balance and wide-ranging carnivores can't survive. He also published a paper "Endangered Ecosystems of the United States: a Preliminary Assessment of Loss and Degradation", encouraging taking Bioregions or needed lands and waters to save all species.

Thus you continue to have the threat of the Wildlands or The Wilderness Project being put into place by Congress and Obama. Now this is so as to save any animal, fish, bird, etc that is threatened by extinction. The ESA and EPA Have been threatening us for too many years!