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Taxing the Heart out of Australia

May 3, 2010 | 0 Comments

By Viv Forbes, 05/03/2010 -

The Carbon Sense Coalition claimed that the Rudd Resource tax was just another in a long line of taxes helping to depopulate rural Australia.

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Tester Tests the Waters and Forests of Montana for Sustainable Development with his Destruction of Forest Jobs and Recreation Act

January 3, 2010 | 0 Comments

By Dan Happel and Kathleen Marquardt, 1/3/2010 - Senator Jon Tester of Montana introduced S. 1470 in July, known as the “Forest Jobs and Recreation Act of 2009.” Regretfully the first two words of the title of the Bill, “Destruction of”, were left off. We must keep in mind that Tester’s Forest Jobs and Recreation Act of 2009 is not about jobs or recreation; it is about removing Montanans from Montana. Then the globalists can get on with the business of bringing to fruition the Wilderness Plan.

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Where the Buffalo Roam…But You Can’t

September 8, 2009 | 0 Comments

By John C. Street, 9/8/2009 - Today, there is land aplenty for the buffalo to roam, for eagles to soar and for those of us who cling to hunting and fishing as a sacred way of life. However, unknown to many in the hunting and fishing community there is a document titled “Agenda 21” that spells out action plans for doing away with hunting and fishing and curtailing access to public land.

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Yukon to Yellowstone: Concern is our animal “cousins”??

December 1, 2008 | 0 Comments

By Vern Westgate, 12/1/2008 - Here is an example of the impact environmental activists have on our constitutionally protected private property rights. They come at us under the guise of “fixing” an issue by creating a “local” or “regional” body to control individual property rights. The error in their thinking is that they are promoting the “common good” in the same manner and for the same reasons that the United Nations attacks private property.

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U.S. Set to Take Coloradans Land Without Compensation

October 28, 2008 | 0 Comments

By Fred Kelly Grant, 10/28/2008 - At this very hour, Colorado landowners are fighting to prevent the United States federal government from taking their land. Ignored by the mass media, hundreds of farmers and ranchers in southeastern Colorado are facing loss of their property at the hands of the IRS. They are victims of “conservation easements” promoted by federal and state governments, land trust companies, and conservation groups.

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Growing Threat of Wildfire Government

August 22, 2008 | 0 Comments

By Lawrence K. Samuels, 8/22/2008 - There was a time when volunteer fire departments, paid fire fighters and local residents would work hand-in-hand to put out wildfires. It was an amenable relationship sharing hardships, goals and camaraderie.

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Santa Cruz “Wildlands Project” Fire

May 24, 2008 | 0 Comments

 

By Michael Shaw, 5/24/2008 - Santa Cruz mountain residents awoke May 22, 2008 to a fast moving inferno that quickly spread to 3800 acres with no relief in sight. Growing gale winds fueled the fire. Steep ridges and dense redwood tree vegetation have created a largely inaccessible terrain. More than a dozen homes have burned to the ground. More losses are expected.

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Burn Baby Burn

October 30, 2007 | 0 Comments

By Sandra F. Mitchell, 10/30/2007 - As forests have become legally "protected" from fire-fuel management the frequency and ferocity of infernos has dramatically increased. Has the Forest Service adopted a "make it burn" policy?

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The Uses and Abuses of Conservation Easements

June 13, 2007 | 0 Comments

By Ronald A. Zumbrun, 6/13/2007 - 20 years ago approximately 300,000 acres of land in the United States were subject to conservation easements donated to private, tax-exempt charitable trusts. Today, over 7,000,000 acres are so held, an almost 25-fold increase. This amount of acreage is in addition to the millions of acres held in trust by federal, state, and local governmental entities.

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Wolves in Our Backyard

May 30, 2007 | 0 Comments

By Mike Satren, 5/30/2007 - The deliberate "reintroduction" of aggressive gray wolves is causing conflict between environmentalists and multiple-use conservationists and changing how residents interact with their own surroundings.

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