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Little Dave:
The intentions in that paragraph at face value are good. The intentions boil down to let's do stuff to help wildlife. Nothing wrong with that.
It's not sustainable. Depends on taxes. Looks like it creates volumes of new yet redundant information at great expense. Perhaps a new redundant zoning agency... then of course a follow up act would be needed to really do the work because this first one only ended up paying for greens fees, boats, and vacation condos in Florida... not to mention a congressman from Connecticut might ask for federal funds to create a yarn museum in his district in exchange for the yes vote.
Most people pay more to the federal government with some degree of hope that it will come back, like the wine museum over in the Yakima Valley, wow they're dancing in the streets over there in Prosser. Any way you look at that it is wealth redistribution. When you see "grants for non-profits" wave at your money as it goes to some legislator's buddy on the East Coast. It will go for greens fees, boats, and vacation condos in Florida, usual stuff like that. You probably pay about twice as much in taxes at the federal level than for state, but you get one third the representation. Most people wouldn't invest their savings that way.
Keep your money local, and your politicians on a short leash.
wolfbait:
Land Use Control Tutorial
http://sovereignty.net/p/land/landusetutorial.htm
Elkaholic daWg:
Citizens for Balanced Use
Baucus co-sponsors S2747
Dear Jim,
The environmental groups that attended the Great American Outdoors and Treasured Landscape Initiative meetings in Montana want nothing more than to have the Land and Water Conservation Fund fully funded. This message was heard loud and clear at these meetings and they are putting pressure on congress to achieve this goal.
The LWCF does nothing more than give huge amounts of money to green organizations to harass land owners into selling there land. They will then transfer ownership of these lands to the government to be locked away from the public all in the so-called name of preservation.
Senator Baucus has just signed on as a co-sponsor of S2747 which will fund these government land grabs to the tune of 450 million per year in perpetuity. Check out the sponsors of this bill.
S 2747
Please contact Senator Baucus and explain to him why we don't need or want the LWCF funded and why more government control of land in Montana is bad for our local economies. Ask him to stop the attacks from government on private property rights.
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Don't forget to mark your calendar to attend the meeting in
Malta on September 16th.
BLM Director Robert Abbey will be at the
Malta High School at 7pm to discuss the new proposed
2.5 million acre National Monument.
Kerry White
Citizens for Balanced Use
1-406-600-4CBU
Elkaholic daWg:
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Elkaholic daWg:
From the "enemy"
Time is running out to participate in our campaign for America's Great Outdoors. It's easy to send a quick email to the Obama Administration asking that conservation for the 21st century include wilderness and wildlife protection. Click here to take action now, or read on for more info.
—Kathy
Dear Jim,
Tell President Obama: Protect our wilderness, public lands and natural heritage!
America's great outdoors … what do you think should be preserved for future generations? What should our conservation priorities be for the 21st century?
America's Great Outdoors is an unprecedented conservation effort spearheaded by President Obama and several government agencies to reconnect people with nature. The Obama administration wants your input to create this blueprint for the future of conservation in America, and members of his cabinet have been traveling around the country this summer listening to our ideas about conservation.
Please tell the Obama Administration to make wilderness, new parks and monuments, and restoration of wetlands and wildlife habitat the cornerstone of America's Great Outdoors.
Why speak out now? New and growing threats -- overdevelopment, pollution and a changing climate -- demand a smarter, science-based approach to protecting wild areas, wildlife, rivers and lakes and cultural and historic sites that connect us to nature, to each other and to our shared past.
Thousands of Americans have spoken out as part of the America's Great Outdoors Initiative this summer in preparation for a major administration report this fall.
Now it's your turn to be heard.
All summer long, The Wilderness Society has been organizing people to turn out to listening sessions with officials, delivering messages face-to-face about special places, like Otero Mesa in New Mexico, San Gabriel Mountains in California, the North Cascades in Washington. We've pushed for new wilderness protections in Tennessee, West Virginia, and Maine.
We've also delivered specific policy recommendations that will lead to long term protection of our lands and water, including:
* Protect more wilderness
* Establish more national parks and monuments
* Keep our forests healthy
* Protect and restore wildlife habitat and wetlands
* Improve opportunities for outdoor recreation
Please act now, to ensure that public lands protection is the center of America's conservation vision.
Each generation has the opportunity –- the responsibility -- to protect our natural heritage for the next generation. Thank you for all you do for America's wilderness and public lands!
Best regards,
Kathy Kilmer
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