New Endangered
Species?
YOU & ME
While we have been enjoying our lattes and
special coffee blends, a not-so-funny-thing has been happening on our way to
the office—green termites have been at work undermining our way of life, our
enjoyment of the outdoors and our freedoms.
Very subtly and under the guise of
protecting the environment, greens have quietly been using open space and
species (not us) protection to craft laws and rulings to exclude the public
(you and me) from any enjoyment of the outdoors.
Environmental groups such as the Sierra
Club, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, the Wilderness Society and the
Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) are names that are somewhat
familiar to most of us. But their background
activities with state and federal agencies such as the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), State Fish and Game, Federal Fish and Wildlife, Army Corps of
Engineers, National Maritime Fisheries Service (NMFS) and Tahoe Regional
Protection Agency (TRPA), to name a few, have pressured such agencies to push
the envelope beyond reasonable purposes.
Funded by foundations established by the
Silicon Valley multi-millionaires with endowments and state and federal
(taxpayers) grants of thousands and millions of dollars of your money,
these green termites are eating away at the very foundation of your way of life
and freedom to enjoy outdoors and your right to visit forests, rangelands and
open spaces.
The Paragon Foundation, an organization formed
to preserve open space and rangeland from excessive restrictions of use, has
indicated that the Sierra Club spends money to influence elections, politicians
and public opinion, in addition to using public money (your taxes) to further
“citizen enforcement of environmental laws” type of lawsuits.” Paragon reports that some 20 percent or 2400
green groups, feed at the public money trough and receive awarded benefits such
as: (1) direct payments from the U.S.
Treasury, (2) government subsidies in the form of reduced or exempt payments of
normal property taxes, and (3) income to advocacy groups for non-controversial
nature programs that free up green organizational funds for lobbying,
litigation and influencing elections.
So you are feeding the termites.
Here in
Some of these activist “greens” have in
fact been eco-terrorists bent on achieving their own goals at any cost—such as
driving spikes into forest trees to maim or disable woodsmen, rooting-out or
setting fire to farmers’ crops they disagree with, or sailing into off-limits
waters to protest range-testing of space vehicles. They believe their goals and their control of
your future lifestyle and activities are foremost and above the
law. Be advised.
Protect your interests and your future.
We, and I’m sure most all of you, are
concerned on protecting our environment and approve of measures to preserve
open space for our children and grandchildren for their enjoyment. But the bureaucratic agencies mentioned above
and a number of green groups have banded together to protect species such as
the spotted owl, the red legged frog, open space, and to exclude public access
to enjoy the great outdoors that we all want to preserve. Yes, we want to preserve this treasured land,
but we also want to enjoy some use of it, now and in the future.
Wise use of these natural areas is what we
advocate and subscribe to, not only for wildlife and open space preservation,
but also to insure that public use is not endangered further, now and in the
future.
Author Ron Arnold has proposed a “Wise
Use” practice in public space management and has exposed the new “money driven”
environmental abuses of the green activists.
“Wise Use” embraces the philosophies that established our national park
areas in 1905, “The greatest good for the greatest number of people in the long
run.”
We urge you, the public, to become
informed of your “endangered” situation and to join in pressures to preserve
your right of reasonable access to areas set aside for open space and species
protection.
Wally Reemelin
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