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I used roughly 1,600 sources to construct the story and argument of Eco-Fascists. The printed and e-book cite more than 400, and I will add the rest over the next few months, as I type, sort, order, categorize and format them. Many will be hyperlinked and where the pdf's would prove useful to other researchers - as in the case of Del Norte county's fiscal disaster - I will archive them. While I could have added many many more footnotes to the print book, in some cases - because some of what I discovered surprised me so much, I would source an assertion from five different arenas; the editors felt too many citations would over-burden the book.  

Because so little of what I write about has been covered in any systematic way by the mainstream media, either by journalists or non-fiction writers, I had to construct my own library over the six years I spent researching.  I pulled data from congressional reports, congressional testimony, hundreds of interviews, books published principally by regional publishers, the blogosphere, regional media, legal briefs and testimony, the digital libraries of the U.N., various foundations and ENGO's, annual reports, IRS 990's, policy documents of various governments and so on. While I think that much of my reasoning is original, the researchers in this field who are dominant and ground-breaking are Ron Arnold, CJ Hadley and Timothy D. Findley of Range Magazine, Michael Coffman, Michael Shaw and Rob Scagel of Pacific Phytometric and the many many activists who work to help redress the balance in the country. I consulted their work frequently and in Rob's case - because his database dwarfs every one else's by at least one standard deviation - checked things with him every week.  

Please be patient with me, while I aggregate the documents.

Happy reading. 

 

 

Bibliography for Website

 

Agenda 21 

Archives of the Earth Summit, 1992.  Many extracts, including No. 32, p. 06, “North cannot shirk responsibility for endangering environment, UNCED head says.”

Extract from the Global Biodiversity Assessment, 1995:  “Population growth has exceeded the capacity of the biosphere….an ‘agricultural world’ in which most human beings are peasants should be able to support 5-7 billion people…In contrast, a reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living….would be 1 billion.”  Section 11.2.3.2. page 773.  Cambridge University Press, 1995

Recommendations from the Vancouver Plan of Action, June 1976, Settlement policies and Strategies, (Agenda item 10 (a)) 

J. Gary Lawrence,  “The Future of Local Agenda 21 in the New Millennium”, Issue 2:  The Millennium Papers, UNED-UK, editor Felix Dodds, 2002

Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development

Report of the Secretary-General, the United Nations, 2 August 2011, Advanced Unedited Copy.

Section III, Strengthening the Role of Major Groups, Chapter 28, Local Authorities’ Initiatives in Support of Agenda 21. UN Economic and Social Development, Division for Sustainable Development, Core Publications, Agenda 21, United National 2009

Agenda 21 Preamble, UN Economic and Social Development Division for Sustainable Development.

Agenda 21, The Rio Declaration on Environment and Development.  Information Habitat:  Where Information Lives – habitat.igc.org 

J.R. Dunn, Climate Fraud and the Environmental Agenda, American Thinker, November 25, 2009

Scott Strzelczyk and Richard Rothschild, UN Agenda 21 – Coming to a Neighborhood Near You.  American Thinker, October 28, 2009

APA, Communications Boot Camp, Webinar #1, First Steps:  Responding & Reframing Planning, November 4, 2011, American Planning Association

APA Virginia Chapter Annual Conference, Responding to Critics and Advocating for Planning, Heard on the Hill July 21, 2011, American Planning Association

U.N. Agenda 21, “Sustainable Development”  Introduced in the U.S. Congress.  This is a list of bills introduced in the Congress from 1987-2011, that would prosecute Agenda 21, under the rubric ‘Sustainable Development”.  Debra K Niwa, February 2012

Toby N. Carlson, Current Funding Practices in Academic Science Stifle Creativity, Penn State University, Dupont Summit, 2008

Codex Alimentarius:  codexalimentarius.org.  Wonder where the organic/plant based thinking comes from?  It’s not Alice Waters.

John Vidal,  “Cut world population and redistribute resources, expert urges”, The Guardian, 26 April 2012

Michael Shaw, “False Choices, Agenda 21 and Your Property Rights”  Freedomadvocates.org

Daniel Greenfield, “How Environmentalists Cause War and Repression”, Front Page Magazine, June 24, 2011

Report of the Environmental Granmakers Association Delegation to the European Foundation Centre Annual General Assembly, February 29, 2008

Mary Pattenden, Director of Development for the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, “Global Implementation of Local Agenda 21”  www.iclei.org;www.peck.ca/nua/aif/aif03.htm

‘Overconsumption’ series, the Guardian, January-April 2012

UN Conference on Human Settlements, Habitat 1, 1976

Peter Wilson, “Community Organizing 2.0:  Climate Community Activism’” American Thinker, March 20,2010

Report of the Secretary-General.  “Implementation of Agenda 21, the Programme for the Further Implementation of Agenda 21 and the outcomes of the World Summit on Sustainable Development.”  Sixty-sixth session, item 20 (a) of the provisional agenda, 9 August 2011

William F. Jasper.  “Rio and Beyond, UN Earth Summit”, The American, June 1, 1992

Maurice Strong, The Passage from Rio, The Earth Summit, the World Citizen, The Association of World Citizens, Fall 1992

Maurice Strong, “Does China Have it Right?”  Maclean’s Magazine, August 6, 2008

The Editors, “Coming to Terms with the reality of China”, Maclean’s Magazine, July 16, 2008.

Neil Reynolds, “Maurice Strong’s Authoritarian Saviour”, The Globe and Mail, 18 November 2009

Willis Eschenbach, “Nothing is Sustainable”, Watts Up With That?, December 22, 2011.

Michael Coffman, “Global Governance 2025, the Good, the Bad and the Very Ugly” Range Magazine, Spring 2011.

Maurice Strong, “Facing Down Armageddom:  Our Environment at a Crossroads” World Policy Journal, June 2009.

Henry Lamb, “Sustainable Development or Sustainable Freedom?”  Freedom 21, 2010, Hollow Rock, Tn.

The EU Budget 2012 – The Figures.

Diane Ross, “The Horrors of Agenda 21 and ICLEI in Florida,” WhatIsAgenda21.net, March 19,2011

Judy Keeler, “The Wildlands Project, A Country Girl’s Musin’”  The Wildlands Project Comes to Hidalgo County – Parts 1-16.

Trust Fund Fact Sheet:  UN-REDD Programme Newsletter, Multi-Donor Trust Funds.

“About UN REDD+”, UN-REDD Programme, 2009

Raven Clabough, “UN Pushes Population Control Agenda”  New American Magazine, October 27, 2011.

2012 Pledges and Contributions to Environment Fund, as of 13 February 2012, UNEP Country Contributions. 

UNEP Environment Fund Fact Sheet, Environment Fund. 

Freedom Advocates Staff, “What is Unsustainable?”  UN Global Biodiversity Assessment – ‘Unsustainables”.  The Global Biodiversity Assessment, United Nations Environment Programme.  Cambridge University Press:  Cambridge, 1995, pp. xi + 1140)

Fiscal Year 2012, Budget of the U.S. Government, Office of Management and Budget.  Budget.gov

Vilfredo Pareto:  The Theory of Elites and the Circulation of Elites.  Coser, 1977, pages 396-400  Bolender Initiatives. http://www.bolenderinitiatives.com/sociology/vilfredo-pareto-1848-1923/vilfredo-pareto-theory-elites-and-circulation-elites

 

Biodiversity

Michael Crichton: “Complexity Theory and Environmental Management  Speech to Washington D.C. Center for Complexity and Public Policy on November 6, 2005

Barnosky et al, “Has the Earth’s Sixth Mass extinction already arrived?”  Nature Magazine, Vol 471, March 3, 2011, Macmillan Publishers Limited.

Navjot S. Sodhi and Paul R. Ehrich,  Conservation Biology For All, Oxford University Press, 2010

The Ecological Indian: Myth and History, by Shepard Krech III, New York: W.W. Norton, 2000

Steven F. Hayward, Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, 2003-2011, Pacific Research Institute, San Francisco, Ca; AEI, Washington D.C.

Kenneth Anderson, “Agency Failure, Legal Liability and Jurisdiction and International Organizations”  Volokh.com September 16, 2010

VI Forbes, “Climate Scammers Unrelenting”  Australian Conservative, 18 June 2010

Bob Carter, “Doomed Planet, Closing out Dissent”, Quadrant Magazine, 2008

Michael E. Soule, Gary Lease, Reinventing Nature?  Responses to Postmodern Deconstruction,  Island Press, 1995.

Matt Ridley, “Eating Your Greenery – And Having It, Too” Wall Street Journal,  July 2, 2011

Cannings, S. M.  Anions, R. Rainer and B. Stein, Our Home and Native Land, Canadian Species of Global Conservation Concern, NatureServe Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, 2005

Darren J. Bender, Thomas A Contreras and Lenore Fahrig, “Habitat Loss and Population Delcine:  A Meta-Analysis of the Patch Size Effect”. Ecology, 79(2), pg 517-533.  The Ecological Society of America, 1998.

“Portraits of an Aging, Dying Biosphere 2”, Boing Boing, January 7, 2010

Michael Duffy, “However virtuous, virtual science is no substitute for the real thing”  Sidney Morning Herald,  December 22, 2007 

Terry Anderson, “Dances With Myths; Half-truths about American Indians' environmental ethic obscure the rational ways in which they have lived with and shaped the natural world.”  Reason Magazine, February 1997.

Roger Sandall, The Culture Cult,
Westview Press, 2001

Toby Carlson, “Science by Proxy”, Chronicle of Higher Education, October 17, 2010.

Walter Russell Mead, “The Big Green Lie Exposed”, The American Interest, July 12, 2010

James Delingpole, “Biodiversity': the new Big Lie”, Daily Telegraph blogs, October 21st, 2010

Charles C. Mann, “The Pristine Myth”, The Atlantic, March 7, 2002

Matthew Moore, “Third of Plants and animals ‘at risk of extinction”  One Third of plant and animal species are now at risk of extinction, a UN report is expected to conclude this week.  The Daily Telegraph, May 9, 2010.

“Main Results of the 2008 UK Biodiversity Action Plan Reporting Round”, published by JNCC on behalf of the UK Biodiversity Partnership. November 25, 2009, 4:00 a.m.

Victor Davis Hanson, “The New War against Reason; Medieval heretic-hunters had nothing on Obama when it comes to closed-mindedness”, National Review Online, November 25, 2009.

Comments prepared by Steven Neugebauer, LHG, LEG. “Excerpts from SAN JUAN COUNTY BEST AVAILABLE SCIENCE SYNTHESIS”, January 2011 DRAFT Reference Number:  100814, Paul Adamus PhD, Herrera, and the Watershed Company; Chapter 2. Wetlands, Prepared by: Paul R. Adamus1, PhD, Adamus Resource Assessment, Inc., REVIEW DRAFT: January 5, 2010, with comments. 

Robert B. Laughlin, “What The Earth Knows. Understanding the concept of geologic time and some basic science can give a new perspective on climate change and the energy future.”  The American Scholar, Summer 2010

Willis Eschenbach, “Where Are The Corpses?”” Watts Up With That?  January 4, 2010.

Species Ranking in British Columbia, B.C. Conservation Data Centre, Ministry of Sustainable Resource Management, Victoria, B.C.  March 2002

David Shukman, “One-fifth of World’s plants at risk of extinction, BBC News Science and Environment, September 29, 2010

Juliette Jowit, “Economic report into biodiversity crisis reveals price of consuming the planet.”  The Guardian, May 21, 2010

Built Green Energy Checklist to Accompany Plans for Plan Evaluation.  Built Green of British Columbia.

Ponder, Carter, Flemons and Chapman, “Evaluation of Museum Collestion Data for Use in Biodiversity Assessment, Conservation Biology, Volume 15, No. 3, June 2001.

Juliette Jowit, “France and Japan propose an IPCC for Nature.”, “Human Wellbeing is utterly dependent on the Natural World,”  “Biodiversity crisis – species loss could cost us the Earth, The Guardian, May June 2010

Chantal Jouanno and Janet Ranganatha, “Give decision makers access to the value of nature’s services”, The Guardian, June 8, 2010

The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems, 2008, The Heinz Foundation, Island Press, 2009

The Making of Ontario’s New Endangered Species Act:  A Campaign Summary Report, Ivy Foundation, December 2007

“A Crisis is a Terrible Thing to Waste, Notes from the First Stonehouse Summit”, January 19-21, 2009, Salt Spring Island, B.C.

Dave Foreman, “Landscape Permeability”, adapted from Rewilding North America, A Vision for Conservation in the 21st Century, Island Press, 2004

David R. Boyd and Stephen J. Genuis
”The environmental burden of disease in Canada: Respiratory disease, cardiovascular disease”, Environmental Research, 2009

David Suzuki and Faisal Moola, “Species loss is silent epidemic”, Canada East Journal June 18, 2010

U.K. Biodiversity Action Plan, U.K. Biodiversity Partnership, 2010

Global Biodiversity Outlook 3, Convention on Biological Diversity, Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2010.

Mike Taugher, “Trying to Preserve Wild Land, Conservationists and biologists are working together on a plan to design vast nature reserves”  Albuquerque Journal, June 15, 1997

Curt Meine, Michael Soule and Reed F. Noss, “’A Mission-Driven Discipline’:  the Growth of Conservation Biology”, Conservation Biology, Volume 20, No. 3, 631-651, 2006

Gretchen Daily, Katherine Ellison, The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable.  Island Press; Reprint edition (September 1, 2003)

Julian Simon, “Hoodwinking the Nation”  Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick USA and London UK. 1999.

Julian Simon, “Why Doom?” from Hoodwinking ibid, page 107-121

Chris D. Thomas et al “Extinction risk from climate Change”, Letters to Nature, Nature, page 145-148, January 2004

 

California

Max Schulz  “California’s Potemkin Environmentalism

"A celebrated green economy produces pollution elsewhere, ongoing power shortages, and business-crippling costs.”  City Journal, Spring 2008, Vol. 18. No.2

Allysia Finley, “California, The Lindsay Lohan of States”, Wall Street Journal, September 8, 2010.

John Loudon, “Obama to California, “Water, it’s not a Right, it's a Privilege”, Big Government, January 25, 2010

Michael Fraley, “Another Liberal Ponzi Scheme”, American Thinker, February 17, 2011; also Ken Silverstein “Priming Banks for Green Loans”  EnergyBix, February 2, 2011.

Joel Kotkin, “Boomer Economy Stunting Growth in Northern California”, New Geography, November 19,2009

Editorial, “Pension Bomb Ticks Louder, California’s public funds are assuming unlikely rates of return”, Wall Street Journal, April 27, 2010.

California State Treasurer Phil Angelides’ Green Wave Initiative.  http://www.treasurer.ca.gov/greenwave/update.pdf

Daniel Brooksbank, “Big Pension Funds invest in new World Bank green bond issue, UN pension fund makes second investment.” Responsible Investor, December 7, 2009

“Your Property Rights Are At Risk, Learn How to Fight Back”. Pacific Legal Foundation on the California Coast Commission.

Patrick J Michaels, “The Fires This Time”, American Spectator, October 29, 2007

Anna Sparks Congressional testimony:Effects of Redwood National Park on Northern California.  http://www.landrights.org/ocs/OCS.hearing.95.redwoods.htm

Del Norte Economic Forecast, 2006-2010

Richard Young, Harbormaster, Crescent City California “Buying Back The Groundfish Fleet”  July 24, 2001

Decision of the Comptroller of the United States regarding the Employee Earnings Protection Program for Redwood Employees. June 17, 1981

Comptroller of the United States.  “Congress Should Scale Down Redwood Employee Program Benefits”, Report to the Congress of the United States, July 8, 1980.

The US GAO Briefing Report to Congressional Requesters, “Dislocated Workers, A Look Back at the Redwood Employment Training Programs”, December 1993

California Child and Family Services Review:  An Overview of the County Self-Assessment (CSA) Process in Del Norte County. 

Del Norte Economic Profile, 2009-2010, Tri-Agency Economic Development Authority. 2010.

Dennis Mullins, “A Labor Market Information Overview Del Norte County”  Economic Development Department, State of California.  2010

Gary Blatnick, Del Norte County’s Director of Health and Human Services, “Economic effects of Public Land Acquisitions”.  Presentation given to Board of Supervisors, August 24, 2010.

Peter Berck, professor of Agricultural and Resouce Economics, University of California, Berkeley.  “The Potential Impact on Del Norte County of Converting the Mill Creek Property to Non Timber Use.”  February 10, 2002.

“California’s compensation per job increases 2.3%,” Sacramento Business Journal, December 22, 2009

Dohn Henion, Del Norte County Counsel, “How to Involve Your Agency’s Legal Counsel in the Coordination Process.”  Powerpoint presentation, Denver, Co, November 2009.

James K. Agee, “Issues and Impacts of Redwood National Park Expansion”  Environmental Management, Vol 4, No. 5 pp407-423.

John Loomis, Richard Walsh and John McKean, “The Opportunity Costs of Redwood National Park:  Comment and Elaboration”.  Contemporary Policy Issues, 103-107

Letter from Del Norte Board of Supervisors to Redwood National and State Parks, demanding the co-ordination process.  August 26, 2008

Adams, Gallo, Hurst, “The Impact on Glenn County Property Tax Revenues of Public Land Acquisition in the Sacramento River Conservation Area, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Chico Research Foundation, California State University, June 1999.

County Property Tax Study on Public Land Acquisitions, June 1999

Letter from Eric Loft, Chief, Wildlife Branch, California Fish and Game to Ms. Dawn Langston, Treasurer-Tax Collector, County of Del Norte, refusing in-lieu (PILT OR PILOT) of property taxes for lands taken for wildlife.  November 10, 2008

Curtis W. Holt, Petitioner v. Raymond J. Donovan, Secretary of Labor, United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Decided April 10, 1985 regarding Redwood Act Employee Benefits.

Kurt Madar, “Embattled state parks seeking partners’ help”, The Triplicate. July 30, 2009

Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate, “Budget Report:  S. 2567 (108th):  Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2004.

S. 136:  Rancho Corral de Tierra Golden Gate National Recreation Area Boundary Adjustment Act.  Bill provides supplemental funding for schools once funded by taxpayers in county.

Public Law 90-545-October 2, 1968. To Establish a Redwood National Park in the State of California, and for other purposes.

Redwood National Park Boundary Adjustment Act of 2005.  Report 109-23 Senate, March 9, 2005

U.S. GAO, Statement of Gregory J. Ahart, Director, Human Resources Division, General Accounting Office before the Subcommittee on Oversight, House Committee on Ways and Means on Unemployment Compensation, Trade Act Worker Adjustment Assistance, Title V, Provisions of the Rail Act and the Redwood Employee Protection Program.

Frank DuBois, “Monument Plan will hurt landscape, local Economy.”  The Westerner, July 7, 2010.  (Dubois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Interior.)

Humbolt County Pre-MLPA Community-Based Socioeconomic Characterization and Risk Assessment, “Overview of Socioeconomic, Demographic, and Fisheries-Specific Trends and Conditions.”  June 2010

Testimony of Edward Saldedo on HR 3638, House Subcommittee on National Parks, Recreation, and Public Lands, April 29, 2004.

Rebecca Smith, “Green Battle Rages in Desert, Mojave Protection Bill Would Put Prime Solar-Power Sites Off Limits”, Wall Street Journal, December 23, 2009

“Why does Berkeley have so many Priuses?  The geography of green consumerism”, The Economist, June 16, 2008

“’No Sun Intended’ Washington has placed a moratorium on solar power projects on federal land.  Is This the work of evil oil companies?  No, it is the fault of environmentalists.”  Investors Business Daily, June 20, 2008

Jennifer Steinhauer, “In California, Coastal Commission Wields Vast Power,” New York Times, February 23, 2008

Interview with Steve Brink, California Forestry Association February 2, 2012 regarding annual harvest levels, 1978-2010, and jobs lost, multiplier effects, both indirect and direct

William McKillop, Professor Emeritus of Forest Economics, University of California, Berkeley “Economic impacts of Revised 2001 Ancient Trees Initiative.”

Joel Kotkin, “The Golden State’s War on Itself”. New Geography, August 8, 2010

Troy Senik., "The Radical Reform That California Needs.  Can once and future governor Jerry Brown deliver political Change to save the state's economy, City Journal, January 21, 2011.

Siskiyou County 

Carol Hardy Vincent, Specialist in Natural Resources, Resources, Science and Industry Division, "National Monument Issues", CRS Report to Congress, February 4, 2005

 

Timber Harvest Levels on the Major National Forests in Siskiyou County, 1978-2009, California Forestry Association.  

Interview with Gary Cadd on corruption of National Marine Fisheries, December 11, 2011. 

Kirk McKenzie, "Defend Rural America", film and DefendRuralAmerica.com.  McKenzie has archived many interviews with Siskiyou Country residents, farmers, ranchers and scientists on his site. 

Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement Revised Cost Estimates, June 17, 2011. http://216.119.96.156/Klamath/2011/06/RevisedCostEstimates.pdf

"Reclamation, Managing Water in the West, Kalmath Tribes Sociocultural/Socioeconomics Effects Analysis Technical Report, for the Secretarial Determination on Whether to Remove Four Dams on the Klamath River in California and Oregon", U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Technical Service Center, Denver, Colorado, August 2011.  

“Aftermath, From California Water Wars”, Pie n Politics, November 30, 2011.  http://calwaterwars.com/2011/11/30/aftermath/

Siskiyou Crest National Monument, America’s First Climate Refuge Prepared by the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, P.O. Box 102. Ashland, Oregon 97520; 541.488.5789; www.kswild.org January 2010

IRS 990, 2010. KSWild.  

2008 Net System Power Report, Commission Report, California Energy Commission, July 2009

“Dam Removal Study, Assessing Ecological Effects of Dam Removal”.Stillwater Science 2011

SISKIYOU COUNTY A SNAPSHOT IN TIME 2010

Interview with Jim Cook, Board of Supervisors, Siskiyou County, December 2011.

Proposed Klamath River Basin Restoration Agreement for the Sustainability of Public and Trust Resources and Affected Communities, January 15, 2008, Draft 11

Klamath News, the Official Publication of the Klamath Tribes, Volume 24, Issue 1, described what the tribes receive from dam removal in Siskiyou County, including 90,000 acres of land and tens of millions of dollars.

TS Radio..Vertical farming, forestry, farming, ranching, Marti Oakley, airdate:  November 16, 2011

“Walmart grant will preserve 218,000 acres of wildlife habitat.  Acres for America program celebrates 5 years of wildlife preservation.”  PR Newswire, December 9, 2010, 

The lands include:

“Shasta Big Spring Ranch, Calif.: The Nature Conservancy will use this $750,000 grant to acquire more than 4,000 acres in the Shasta Big Spring Ranch in Northern California. The property includes six miles of Klamath River tributaries, which supply the cold water needed by Coho, Chinook and steelhead salmon to survive during annual migrations. The property is adjacent to 2,000 acres of ranches that are also protected by conservation easement.”

 

Colorado 

Ann Imse, “Colorado stumped on land credits; $193 million handed out, but state lacks details about acres.” Rocky Mountain News, December 19, 2006

J.D. Wright, President.  “Conservation Easements, Destroying Colorado Landowners” Landowners United LLC., 2009.

Also:  “OVER VIEW OF CONSERVATION EASEMENT EVENTS AND TAX CREDIT SALES AND SUBSEQUEENT CONFLICT”  Wright, op cit.

Lola Shrimplin  “Landowners United”.  Bent County Democrat Oct 28, 2009.

Trey Garrison, “Not One More Acre”, Reason Magazine, February 17, 2009

Press Release “Pinon Canyon Expansion Opposition Coalition at odds with ‘Platform for Prosperity”

“Scott McInnis’ ‘platform’ is silent on the issue of the private property rights when it comes to expansion of Pinon Canyon”  Pinyon Canyon Expansion Opposition, PCEOC October, 2009

Stanley K. Mann, “The Colorado Conservation Easement Program. Prior to the 2008 Changes in the Law, The Significant Changes and the Unfair Disallowance-of-Tax-Credit Process”  2009.

Lynn Allen, "If I Spend Your Money on Me" La Junta Tribune Democrat, March 14, 2008.

Kimmi Clark Lewis “Conservation Easements, The Colorado Experience”.  December 2009 power point.

 

Conservation

Matt Ridley, “Controlling The British Countryside”  PERC Reports, Volume 20, Spring 2002

Thomas H. Birch, “The Incarceration of Wildness, Wilderness Areas as Prisons; The Great New Wilderness Debate, edited by J. Baird Callicott and Michael P. Nelson University of Georgia Press (Jun 1 1998) 

Conservation Almanac, Preserved Lands by State, 2005

Julia D. Mahoney, “Perpetual Restrictions on Land and the Problem of the Future”  University of Virginia School of Law, Law and Economics Research Papers, Working Paper No. 01-06

Ben Eisen, and Kenneth P. Green, “Environmental Policy and the law of unintended Consequences, Eight Case Studies from around the World.  Frontier Center for Public Policy, 2010.

Dana Joel Gattuso, “Conservation Easements:  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, National Center for  Public Policy Research, May 2008

Strengthening Incentives for Conservation, The Big Picture, Conservation Tools, Carolinian Canada, 1984-2004

Tax Incentive Impact Survey, Land Trust Alliance 2006 ”Easement Incentive Works:  Conservation Boosted by 535,000 Acres”.

Tom Kenworthy, “Wilderness Policy Takes U-Turn,” USA Today,  May 28, 2003.

Richard Brewer, Conservancy; The Land Trust Movement in America, Dartmouth/UPNE Publishers, University Press of New England, 2003

William J. Ginn, Investing in Nature, Case Studies of Land Conservation in Collaboration with Business, Island Press, 2005.

John McPhee, Encounters with the Archdruid, Narratives about a conservationist and three of his natural enemies Farrar Strauss and Giroux, 1971

Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, L. Hunter Lovins, Natural Capitalism, Creating the Next Industrial Revolution, Little Brown, 1999

 

Coordination

Fred Kelly Grant, Legal Briefing “Forest Service must reconsider its forest management plans for four southern California forests in coordination wit the state of California. Forest Service settled at remedy status of case in which federal judge ruled forest service violated the law by not coordinating with the state.”  December 27, 2010

Fred Kelly Grant, “How Coordination Works”.  American Stewards of Liberty, 2009

Extensive documentation of coordination can be found at American Stewards of Liberty, www.stewards.us

 

 

Dam Removal

 Dam Removal Resource Guide, “2011 will be the ‘year of the river’ with several large, high-profile dams coming down across the country. American Rivers has helped make removing outdated dams an accepted and even preferred option for dam owners and communities.

“This resource guide provides a snapshot of some of the exciting river restoration projects coming up, and information about the benefits of dam removal.”  American Rivers 2011

ibid. "Dam Removal:  Frequently Asked Questions". AmericanRivers.com  2011.

Yvon Chouinard, “Dammed If We Don’t”  Patagonia Environmental Essay posted on website, 2012

“Letting Dams go and letting rivers find their new equilibriums”, Restore, Hydropower Reform Coalition, Winter 2011.

 

Economic Effects

 

Federal Financial Incentives and Subsidies in Energy Markets 2007, Energy Information Administration / Executive Summary  http://www.eia.gov/oiaf/servicerpt/subsidy2/pdf/execsum.pdf

James Simpson, “Cloward-Piven Government”, American Thinker, November 23, 2009

Dustin Bleizeffer, “CBM operators feel the squeeze.  Independents say regulations are forcing them out; critics dispute that”, Caspar Star-Tribune, August 8, 2009

Nouriel Roubini, “Get Ready For 'Stag-Deflation. That's stagnation/recession + deflation.” Forbes Magazine, October 10, 2008

Patrick Michaels, “Corn on the Mob”, American Spectator, January 30, 2008

Matt Purple, “Corny Capitalism”, American Spectator, August 27, 2010

Peter Howell & Abigail Weinberg, “Mining Nature’s Bounty, Tapping Markets for Ecosystem Services”, Open Space Institute, Land Trust Alliance, October 15, 2005

(This presentation means to show how to create a market, or in starker terms, rent seek on behalf of the environment) 

J. Bradford Delong, “The Material World, Creative Destruction’s Reconstruction”.  The Chronicle of Higher Education,  December 7, 2007.

David Freddosos, “Big Green Machine Feeds Off You, Commentary Magazine, October 1, 2009

Paul Krugman on Deflationary Spirals.  http://web.mit.edu/krugman/www/spiral.html

Vivian Krause, “U.S. Funding for Aquaculture “Reform”; the Demarketing of Farmed Salmon, A Report Prepared for the Major and Council of Campbell River, presented April 13, 2010.

Don Blankenship, “America Faces a Reg-cession, not a Recession” Washington Examiner, September 20, 2009.

Environmentalism is Fascism website  http://www.ecofascism.com/

Several.  “Global Food Crisis, the new world of soaring food prices” Washington Post series.  April 2008

Martin Wolf.  “Why We Must Stop the Land Cycle”.  Financial Times July 8, 2010

John Hunt, “The Pilgrims, Famine and the end of Feudalism”, American Thinker November 26, 2009.

Examiner Editorial, Obama Turns off Homegrown Energy, Washington Examiner, January 8, 2010.

Peter Foster, “Forest Shakedown, we need a ‘Do not Donate’ campaign against these extremists”, National Post, July 18, 2010

Paul Driessen, “Still Feeding the World, Townhall Magazine, April 5, 2008

Ellen Byron, “As Middle Class Shrinks, P&G Aims High and Low”, Wall Street Journal, September 12, 2000.

Le DeCovnick, “Arrogance in the Air”  American Thinker, January 28, 2010

Nancy Brown, “The EPA and Me”, American Thinker, November 21, 2009

Stephen Dinan, “Americana Climate Czar has socialist ties”, Washington Times, January 12, 2009

Randall Hoven, Graph of the Day for December 19, 2009”  American Thinker, December 19, 2009

Changes in the national average of the six common pollutants monitored by the EPA, 1980 to 2008:

Carbon Monoxide:  79% decrease.

Ground level Ozone:  25% decrease

Lead:  92% decrease.

Nitrogen Dioxide:  46% decrease.

Particulate matter:  19% decrease.

Sulfur Dioxide:  71% decrease.

 

Editorial, “California’s Man-Made Drought”, Wall Street Journal, September 2, 2009

Committee on Incorporating Sustainability in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; National Research Council “Sustainability and the U.S. EPA” National Academies Press, 2011.

“EPA Reach Too Far? Justices Hear Case of Interest to Big Business,  NBC News, 2011.

Will N. Graves “Anxiety Through the Ages”, Range Magazine, Winter 2008.

Fish and Wildife Service, Department of the Interior, Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Review of Native Species That Are Candidates for Listing as Endangered or Threatened; Annual Notice of Findings on Resubmitted Petitions; Annual Description of Progress on Listing Actions.  Federal Register, Vol 76, No 207 October 26, 2011, Proposed Rules.

Minutes from Ferry County Planning Commission Special Meeting, June 16, 2010

Northwest Conservation, Issue 41, Winter 2000.  “Washington’s State Lands are in Danger and We aim to Preserve Them.”  NWEA

Trish Turner, “Your Tax Dollars Subsidizing Scottie Pippen, Ted Turner, and Jon Bon Jovi?”  FoxNews, 2011-11-14 14:32

“If ever there was a populist blueprint for deficit reduction, this has got to be it.Each year, millionaires are soaking the government, not illegally, for some $30 billion in benefits from tax giveaways and loan programs, according to a report by Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma.The Republican senator, a staunch fiscal hawk and equal opportunity scourge of government waste and abuse, released "Subsidies of the Rich and Famous" Monday to little fanfare, saying in an e-mailed statement, "This welfare for the well-off - costing billions of dollars a year - is being paid for with the taxes of the less fortunate, many who are working two jobs just to make ends meet, and IOUs to be paid off by future generations."

The eye-popping findings in the 36-page report include some eye-catching names, like former NBA star Scottie Pippen [1] and billionaire media mogul Ted Turner, both of whom received farm subsidies courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Singer Jon Bon Jovi [2] paid property taxes of only $100 last year on a plot of land he used to raise bees. Iconic crooner Bruce Springsteen also got in on the farm subsidy action, for property he leases to an organic farmer.”

William Yardley, “Ecoterrorism Suspected in House Fires in Seattle Suburb”, New York Times, March 8, 2008

Bill Hobbs, “Mining Company Fights Back Against Soros Lies”, Newsbusters, September 5, 2007 - 11:31 ET

Testimony before 
Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry 
July 17, 1997 

Northern Forest Stewardship Act - S546

“I am David Guernsey from Kingfield, Maine. I am the President of the Sugarloaf Area Chamber of Commerce. Among my directors are the General Manager of Stratton Lumber Company, one of New England's largest and most modern dimensional lumber mills, and the President of Sugarloaf Mountain Corporation, one of New England's largest ski areas. I sit on the Economic Development Advisory Committee for Franklin County, which has a population of 25,000 and is approximately the same size as the State of Rhode Island. It is the only county in the Maine, which maintains a full time Office of Economic Development. I sat on the Northern Forest Lands Council Citizens' Advisory Committee and presently chair the Kingfield Planning Board. I sit on the Board of the Maine Conservation Rights Institute, an organization dedicated to conservation through private land ownership. Time did not permit consultation with any of these organizations. I am speaking today for myself only.

The 3 towns which our chamber represents were singled out in the 1990 Northern Forest Lands Study as one of the five areas in the 26 million acre Northern Forest which were threatened with uncontrolled development. These threats never developed, nor, according to the Sewall Report commissioned by the Northern Forest Lands Council, did any of the other threats hyped by the Northern Forest Lands Study.

Our principal problem is not too much growth but the lack of it. The federal Economic Development Administration has even funded a $100,000 study to combat Franklin County's Long Term Economic Decline. We are faced with a capital intensive paper industry with its declining job base, a wood manufacturing industry which is stagnant at best, an extremely vulnerable shoe industry, and a tourism industry which must be carefully shepherded if it is to produce acceptable economic benefits. If we are to give future generations a viable economic structure, we must be able to use our land in resourceful and innovative ways.”

Frank L Thompson, “More Wilderness Is Not Good For Vermont”, Times Argus Online, February 27, 2005.

Kimberly Strassel “POTOMAC WATCH Green Goodies, It's payback time for another left-leaning lobby.”  Wall Street Journal,June 15, 2007 

“First came Big Labor. Then the tort lawyers. What special interest lobby remains for the Democratic majority to reward for services rendered this past election?

The answer rests in the ecstatic press releases tumbling out of the nation's largest environmental groups, as they oversee the House's pending energy legislation. That is, if "energy" is the right word for West Virginia Rep. Nick Rahall's green-payoff of a bill. Ostensibly the legislation is a rollback of any energy production advances of recent years. But also tucked deep in its heart is an extraordinary new tool to allow environmentalists to lock up private property across the country. Bill presented; bill paid…

“But the big prize was an unprecedented new power allowing green groups to micromanage U.S. lands. That section creates "a new national policy on wildlife and global warming." It would require the Secretary of the Interior to "assist" species in adapting to global warming, as well as "protect, acquire and restore habitat" that is "vulnerable" to climate change. This is the Endangered Species Act on steroids. At least under today's (albeit dysfunctional) species act, outside groups must provide evidence a species is dwindling in order for the government to step in. This law would have no such requirements. Since green groups will argue that every species is vulnerable to climate change, the government will be obliged to manage every acre containing a bird, bee or flower.

Henry Lamb, “Private Land Ownership, social injustice; U.N. says government must control land use” Freedom Advocates, Monday, June 25, 2007:

“An official delegation from the U.S. Government actually signed a U.N. document that says:

“Private land ownership is a principal instrument of accumulation and concentration of wealth and therefore contributes to social injustice.... Public control of land use is therefore indispensable....”


 

Fighting Organizations - a selection

 

Daniel K Benjamin, “The Value of Environmental Amenities”, PERC Reports, Vol 27, No 3, September 2009.

Sherrifs Stand TALL for the Constitution, Siskiyou Golden Fairgrounds, October 26, 2011.   Youtube

Fred Kelly Grant “The Audacity to Win; 
Charting a New Course for Landowners”  Standing Ground, 2009


Jane Mayer, “Covert Operations, The billionaire brothers who are waging a war against Obama.”  New Yorker August 30, 2010http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/08/30/100830fa_fact_mayer#ixzz26OFbKjIS

 

Forests

John Stossel, “America's Forests: In danger of vanishing?”  ABC News, March 29, 2004

Matthew Daly and Shannon Dininny, Timber program becomes vast entitlement” AP IMPACT:  Dec 6, 2011

John Cromartie, Peter Nelson, “Baby Boom Migration Tilts Toward Rural America”Baby boomers, poised to retire, are expected to increase rural and small-town populations, bringing both additional benefits and costs.”  USDA Reports 2009.

Andrew Bolt “Burning off a lifesaver Herald Sun (Australia) August 06, 2010  “THE Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission's final report last weekend is the whitewash nobody even noticed.”

David Gritten, Blas Mola-Yudego, “Blanket strategy: a response of environmental groups to the globalising forest industry” International Journal of the Commons. Vol. 4, no 2 August 2010, pp. 729–757 Publisher: Igitur, Utrecht Publishing & Archiving Services for IASC  URL:http://www.thecommonsjournal.org

Map of the Algonquin to Adirondack, A2A Initiative.

Map of Yellowstone to Yukon, Y2Y Initiative

Map of Baha to Bering, B2B Initiative

Phil Hearn, “Viewpoint” Working Forest Summer #1, 2010 Vol. 14 #4 Jun 17, 2010

“The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement has stirred up those who comprehend the long-term unfinishable environmental agenda. The professional environmentalist and their money men, the large U.S.-based charitable trusts, are in control again.

The Working Forest has received comments and statistics from readers showing how this insidious flow of foreign money is influencing our governments’ natural resources policy and endangering the future of resource communities, native and non-native, that confirm Canada’s ownership of our Northern lands, forests, minerals and oil and gas.”

The Working Forest Staff.  “Boreal forest deal backlash” Working Forest, Summer #1, 2010 Vol. 14 #4 Thursday Jun 17, 2010

“The Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (CBFA) between 21 member companies of the Forest Products Association of Canada (FPAC) and several environmental groups announced on May 18 has triggered a significant response from the readers of The Working Forest. With tacit if lukewarm approval for the agreement from some provincial governments, the response from people in the forest industry and in resource-based communities has been swift and damning.”

Dawn Paley “Boreal Forest Conflicts Far From Over”  Mainstream enviros, timber industry shut First Nations out of "historic" deal.  The Dominion, 2010.

Financial Post “GLOBALLY SIGNIFICANT' DEAL CENTRES ON BOREAL FOREST”  The Financial Post,Tuesday May 18, 2010 

Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement  May 14, 2010

Canadian Boreal Forest Map

Envirotrak Version: 3.02.00 - Apr, 2009 © Pacific Phytometric Consultants

Macdonald Stainsby and Dru Oja Jay, “Offsetting Resistance; The effects of foundation funding from the Great Bear Rainforest to the Athabasca River. www.offsettingresistance.ca

Cassidy Olivier, “Greens and loggers on brink of truce in B.C. war in the woods; Government promises three-year logging freeze in boreal forests” The Province MAY 13, 2010

Peter Foster, Horror Borealis, Financial Post, May 21, 2010

Interview with Bruce Vincent, Evergreen Magazine, August 2011

“Burning Down the West – Wild Fire Carbon”, Ecoshock News. November 26, 2007

Peter Foster: “Faust in the forests” Financial Post, Jan 24, 2012

Audrey Hudson, “Environmentalists Block Fire Retardant use to Protect Wildlife  Human Events, 12/28/2011

Steven Frank, “A Summer in Flames” Time, August 18, 2003 “It’s the most dangerous fire season in a half-century. Forest fires are hard to prevent and getting harder to fight, as more people move into the woods”.

Findley, Vincent et all.  “Special Report:  The Great Lie”  Range Magazine. Fall 2006

Forest Facts, Evergreen Magazine, http://evergreenmagazine.com/pages/Forest_Facts-v2.html: 

Annually, U.S. forestland owners plant about 6 trees for every tree harvested. 

About one-third of America's original forest - some 300 million acres - have been converted to other uses, principally agriculture. 

There are 26 million more acres of forestland in the Northeast than there were in 1900.

Today, forests blanket about one-third of the U.S. land base and about half the U.S. East.

U.S. annual growth rates have exceeded harvest rates since the 1940's.

Timber harvesting is forbidden on 50% of all National Forest lands in the U.S. 

National Forests account for 20% of the nation's forestlands and 19% of its timberlands. 

National Forests hold 46% of the nation's softwood timber inventory but only provide 6% of the annual harvest. 

Since 1986, the harvest of timber from America's national forests has declined 70%.

In the West, 34% of all forestland and 54% of all timberlands are in national forests. 

National forests in the Pacific Coast and Intermountain West regions hold 68% of the nation's softwood timber inventory, but provide less than 28% of annual harvest.

Forest density has increased 40% in the U.S. over the last 50 years.

"We must always consider the environment and people together, as though they are one, because the human need to use natural resources is fundamental to our continued presence on earth." Evergreen Magazine, P.O. Box 1290, Bigfork, MT. 59911 • Tel: (406) 837-0966 • Fax: (406) 258-0815 • Email:

Global Forest Resources Assessment 2010 FAO

IBD Editorials.  Food Vs. Trees, Investros Business Daily, December 30, 2009

Summary Description of Mill Closure Data from 1990 – 2010, Paul F. Ehinger & Associates, Eugene, Oregon.

Senate Hides Obama Anti-Free Enterprise Czar Vote! 

“Harris Sherman an extreme environmentalist CZAR nominated by Obama was confirmed in a quick vote by the Senate and is being hidden from Americans.  Sherman is to be Obama’s Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and the Environment.”  Centre for the Defense of Free Enterprise, Bellevue Washington. September 30, 2009.

Sean Paige Editorial: "Clinton's road to ruin. Fight over forest access is 10 years old." Orange County Register Friday, February 8, 2008

CYNTHIA J. ZABEL, U.S. Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Research Station, 1700 Bayview Drive, Arcata, CA 95521, USA,and Department of Wildlife, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521, USALOWELL V. DILLER, Simpson Timber Company, 900 Riverside Road, Korbel, CA 95550, USA DARRIN M. THOME,  “FOREST STAND CHARACTERISTICS AND REPRODUCTION OF NORTHERN SPOTTED OWLS IN MANAGED NORTH-COASTAL CALIFORNIA FORESTS”  Department of "Wildlife, Humboldt State University, Arcata, CA 95521, USA

Assessing the Impacts of MSMA for Bark Beetle Control to Forest Birds", Canadian Environmental Assessment Agency

MSMA Fact Sheet

“Treatment of Trees with Monosodium Metanearsenate (MSMA) for Bark Beetle Control Analysis” 

“Recent research and analysis concluded that people are not at risk as a result of MSMA’s former use for bark beetle control. The arsenic associated with past application is largely confined to the treated trees and is not migrating into the surrounding soil or vegetation."  This independent study was led by Dr. Ken Reimer, Director of the Environmental Sciences Group at the Royal Military College of Canada, and Dr. William Cullen, Professor Emeritus in the Chemistry Department at the University of British Columbia.

Both authors are recognized nationally and internationally as experts in arsenic toxicology. Dr. Reimer’s research interests include new ways of conducting ecological and human health risk assessments, contaminant uptake, and the transformation and mobility of arsenic in the food chain. Dr. Cullen has published extensively on the speciation, transformation and metabolism of arsenic in the environment.  BC Department of Forests and Range

Russia’s Fires Caused In Large Part By Forest Mismanagement  Der Spiegel reports here on Russia’s extreme heat that’s has contributed to higher death rates and wildfires plunging Moscow into a thick, choking smog.

“How citizens saved the Loomis Forest” “The Loomis Forest Fund set many precedents for conservation in Washington: it stands today as a monumental success wrought by the imagination, forethought, and generosity of all who took part in its protection.”  Conservation Northwest, 2001

“Firefighters make progress on Loomis forest blazes. 
Lower temperatures, higher humidity should help”  Associated Press, Friday, August 11, 2006

Marc Morano, “Timber Industry Warns of 'Eco-Dictatorship”  November 27, 2001 | Marc Morano

Belem, Brazil (CNSNews.com) - Timber industry representatives say international environmental groups are trying to establish a worldwide "eco-dictatorship," by creating environmental myths and controlling the forestry industry.

2009 Victorian Bushfires Royal Commission, Final Report, July 2010.

Pierce Lefebvre Consulting, Central Cariboo Region, Timber Harvesting & Processing Employment Survey, May 25th, 2009, B.C. Ministry of Forests and Range. 

Final Rule, Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination of Critical Habitat for the Northern Spotted Owl, Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior, Vol 57, No 10, January 15, 1992/Rules and Regulation.

Chart, U.S. Acres Per Wildfire and Number per Year, 1960-2008. Timber West Journal               

PROTECTED, British Columbia Announces Snowy Provincial Park, Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, Quarterly Newsletter, Issue 45, Spring, 2001

Robert Sullivan, “The Working Forest”, New York Times Magazine, April 16, 2009

 

Foundations

IRS 990-PF Energy Foundation 2008 

“Design to Win, Philanthropy’s Role in the Fight Against Global Warming”, California Environmental Associates, August 2007

David A. LaRoche, the Ivy Foundation, conserving Canada’s Forests Program.  Five year evaluation, (2003-2007), Ivy Foundation Report, June 2009

Archives of the Earth Summit, No. 35, p.11-12: “Agenda-21 cost $ 125 billion annually in aid.”

Donna LaFramboise, “Big Oil Money for Me, But Not for Thee”  No Frakking Consensus,  February 17, 2012 at 4:19 pm The Sierra Club takes fossil fuel money. So does the Nature Conservancy and Rajendra Pachauri’s sustainability conference. So why is the Heartland Institute being torn to pieces for the same behaviour?

Neil Maghami, “BP and the Gulf Oil Spill, Greens Use Deepwater Oil Spill to Promote Job-Killing Policy Agenda, Green Watch, Capital Research Center. 2010.

Ron Arnold, Chapter 1, Silent Scandal Undue Influence, Merril Press, 1999, 2000.

“A bewildering array of federal actions is crippling rural goods-producing economies in the name of protecting nature. An urban-rural prosperity gap widens because of these actions, which damage county tax bases and vital services such as roads, schools, and law enforcement. The flow of goods being destroyed includes water production, farming, ranching, mining, timber, oil and gas, roads, and manufactured goods—in short, everything physical or material that industrial civilization needs to thrive. An "iron triangle" of coordinated interests provokes the federal actions: environmental groups, wealthy foundations, and zealous bureaucrats. Their campaign of rural cleansing is turning vital resource producers into despised and disposable inferiors.”

National Post editorial board: The UN’s do-nothing green scheme” National Post, Oct 3, 2011

“The American Oligarchy's Economic Warfare Campaign on British Columbians”  http://www.ecofascism.com/articles.html

Environmental Grantmakers Association 2009 Fall Retreat Program Guide, September 29-October 2, the Hotel Captain Cook, Anchorage, Alaska. Environmental Grantmakers Association.

Environmental Grantmakers Association, 2006, Program Speakers ibid.

Environmental Grantmakers Association, 2007, Program Speakers, ibid

Eric Veyhl, “Preservationists Acknowledge Growing Grass Roots Opposition", Land Rights Letter, February 1993:

“Reports on a major environmentalist conference held last October have revealed an unusually candid, but private, acknowledgement by environmentalist leaders as to the scope and source of their opposition from the private property and "wise use" movements.

A session entitled "The Wise Use Movement – Threats and Opportunities," at the Environmental Grantmakers Association meeting in Washington State last October, discussed how organized opposition to environmentalist initiatives is coming from a genuine grass roots uprising – not from "corporate funded front groups," the "John Birch Society," or the "Moonies," as is publicly claimed by preservationist publicity campaigns seeking to discredit those who speak out against them.

"All over the country it's like a gas, it's filling – its filling the available space," said worried session leader Debra Callahan, listing grass roots opposition to environmentalist-caused problems ranging from loss of property rights to loss of rural jobs and destruction of rural economies.

Callahan based her conclusions on a long term investigation, which she boasted has included the use of "spies."

The session was part of a three day conference in which environmentalists meet with corporate and foundation sponsors who jointly determine environmentalist strategy and decide on the dispensation of hundreds of millions of dollars in grants to activist groups.”

John Rosenthal, “The EU Connection in Climate Research:  millions of euros come with an agenda” Board of Trustees of Leland Stanford Junior University 
, 2010

Chart of Foundations funding the Boreal Forest Initiative - see 'By the Numbers'. 

Ivy Main, editor, “Carbon Capture and Storage Development in China, The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, 2010.

IRS Form 990-PF  W.K. Kellog Foundation, 2005

“News you may have missed" Enter Stage Right, web posted November 22, 1999

Animal rights group run by David Suzuki faces probe”. 

Ben Johnson, “57 Varieties of Radical Causes, Part II”  Front Page Magazine, September 18, 2004, specifically, Chapter 5, Shades of Green:

“No portrait of Teresa Heinz Kerry’s political benefactions would be complete without looking at her role in funding the green political agenda. No other issue so motivates Teresa Heinz Kerry. In fact, she met her second husband at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro. The majority of her grants at the Heinz Endowments have in some way related to environmental issues. Always applicants for more government, the green nonprofits Teresa has funded stray well outside traditional nature-oriented issues to make partisan action callson Homeland Security measures and foreign policy. Another byproduct of her charity is the growing solidarity environmentalism in which conservationists join hands with Third World Marxists in their condemnations of capitalism and Western culture.”

“When is a Foundation not a Foundation? When it gives away other foundations money.”  Profile of the Tides Foundation & Tides Center.  ActivistCash.com http://activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/o/225-tides-foundation--tides-center

Michael Northrop, Program Officer, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, “The Tar Sands Campaign”, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, Philanthropy for an Interdependent World, July 2008

Scott Walker, “The Tides Foundation and Center, Selling Foundation Philanthropy on the Idea of “Structural Racism”, Foundation Watch, Capital Research Center, July 2011.

Mike Klassen, “What the heck were Gregor Robertson and Mike Magee doing in New York City?”  Citycaucus.ca, June 26, 2010. http://archive.citycaucus.com/2010/06/what-the-heck-were-gregor-robertson-and-mike-magee-doing-in-new-york

Maclin: ‘Canadian Security Intelligence Service director Richard Fadden claimed on CBC Tuesday that some B.C. municipal politicians were under “foreign influence.” On Wednesday, the Mayor’s office reacted with a prepared statement that said “it’s frustrating and unfortunate that local elected officials in B.C. had aspersions cast upon them without any justification.” Robertson and Magee did not respond immediately to a 24 hours’ interview request.”

Kathryn Blaze Carlson, “Tides, critics clash over charity’s claims of transparency”. National Post, June 28, 2012 

U.S. foundations fund Canada's greens  John Duncan, Financial Post · Thursday, Jun. 3, 2010

The following is the email interception of communication between Wilburforce Foundation, other FundOrgs,EnvirOrgs, and fellow travellers in a campaign targeting PlumCreek. It is an unambiguous example of the premeditation and organization that goes into environmental campaigns.”

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Dear All:

Wilburforce - Paul Allen Foundations meeting to discuss forestland conservation opportunities in the

Pacific Northwest, and Montana.

Agenda:

10:00 am to 2:30 pm

Plum Creek Lands - Strategic Lands in Strategic Places: Are there opportunities for leverage and bulk

discount conservation? Plum Creek is the largest private timber company in much of the Pacific

Northwest. Their lands are usually the privately owned squares in the western landscape of the private

and public land checkerboard. Their lands are also potential valuable in any discussion of a state or

national park in Maine. With pending government acquisition pots of money on the horizon and

changing business strategies of timber companies, an opportunity for large scale engagement with Plum

Creek may be at hand. Part one of this meeting is to determine the extent of Plum Creek holdings,

determine areas of potential conservation importance, and discuss possible strategies for large scale

conservation of Plum Creek lands. Part two of the meeting will look at the design of an appraisal process

to figure out the cost of a Plum Creek conservation effort.

Plum Creek Lands Discussion:

Introduction of Participants

Brief Description by each participant of what they bring to the table with regards to land conservation

and working with Plum Creek

Background on Plum Creek Holdings

Areas of Ecological Importance

Areas of Ecological Importance with compatible recreational uses

Plum Creek holdings at large

The Opportunities in dealing with Plum Creek

The company

The changes in timberland management

External factors at hand

Land Acquisition/Easement/Take-out Strategies

How private funding can be used to leverage other resources

Appraisal Design and Gaining Partners

2:30 pm - 4:30 pm

Flathead and Crowsnest Pass - Key Landscape Corridors in US and Canada Crowsnest Pass just north of

the US and Canadian border is a major pincher

point in maintaining landscape connectivity in North America. The pass is adjacent to the North Fork of

the Flathead River—a watershed of supreme importance for carnivore conservation. The Flathead

maintains the highest density of Grizzly Bears in all of North America except coastal Alaska. The region

feeds bears to Glacier National Park and Bob Marshall Wilderness to the south in the US; Waterton

National Park and Castle Crown region to the East in Canada; and the four Jewels of the Rocky Mountain

National Parks to the north in Canada—Banff, Jasper, Yoho and Kootenay. Crowsnest Pass is the eastwest

barrier to the north-south movement of bears, wolves and other carnivores. Except for a portion of

the Flathead within Glacier National Park—the region has little conservation protection.

Harvey Locke of the Kendall Foundation will lead a briefing on a potential land conservation strategy to

protect this region of utmost conservation importance.

Please let me know if you can attend. If you need help in finding accommodation.

Thanks Gary

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Jim Owens; Steve Whitney; Tim Greyhavens; Ed Lewis; Del Langbauer; Amos

Eno; Jamie Williams; bowen.blair@tpl.org

Cc: Madeline Fishel Pope

Subject: Save the date -- Nov. 13, 2000

The Wilburforce and Paul G. Allen Foundations seek your participation in a one day meeting to discuss

strategic land conservation opportunities in the Pacific Northwest and Northern Rocky Mountain Region.

Specifically, the meeting will examine private and public forestland conservation opportunities in

Washington State, Western Montana, and the Transboundary Flathead region of the US and Canada.

This is a Save the Date notice...a more detailed agenda will be provided next week.

Venue: Wilburforce Foundation Head Office

3601 Fremont N.

Suite 304

Seattle Washington 98103

800-201-0148

Fremont Section of Seattle is roughly 2 miles north of City Center

Date: Monday 13 November, 2000

Time: 10:00 am to 4:00 pm -- Lunch provided

For more information:

Gary M. Tabor VMD MES

Wilburforce Foundation

Yellowstone to Yukon Program Office

P.O. Box 296

Bozeman, Montana 59771

Tel: 406 586-9796

Toll Free: 800 317-8180

Fax: 406 586-3076

Email: Gary@wilburforce.org

winmail23.dat 

B.C. Real Estate Foundation Grants for 2007

“One hundred and eighteen grants were approved from January to December 2007. The total amount of grants approved was $6,502,283. This summary lists the recipients and a brief description of their projects. (Many, if not most were aimed at environmental “problems” or education, smart growth initiatves and so on.ejn) Grants are organized according to the Foundation's purposes, as described in the Real Estate Services Act (i.e., research, public education, professional education, law reform, and other real estate related projects). Those approved under the Communities in Transition program are highlighted in blue.

Vivian Krause, “$US 13.9 Million from a U.S. foundation for Canadian ENGOs to influence the PNCIMA Initiative”  Fair Questions, 06/16/2010

“Since 2006, the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation ("the Moore foundation") has granted at least $US 13.9 Million to various Canadian environmental organizations in order to support their participation and influence in the Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area Initiative (the PNCIMA Initiative).

The Canadian environmental organizations heavily funded by the same U.S. foundation are: The David Suzuki FoundationWWF CanadaRaincoast Conservation FoundationCanadian Parks & Wilderness SocietyLiving Oceans Society (which according to Revenue Canada is NOT a registered charity), West Coast Vancouver Island Aquatic Management AssociationThe Turning Point Initiative (for First Nations participation), Tides Canada Foundation  

Krause:  "Why is an American foundation spending so much money to influence the planning process for the use of coastal areas and natural resources in Canada? Of all the countries in the world, why Canada?”

IRS 990, Conservation Northwest, 2008

 

Clearances

“47,000 Reasons to Join the Rural Revolution”  “The evidence is before us and your verdict needs to be handed down, as Queens Park and Stone road bureaucrats conspire to eliminate 47 000 Ontario farms and families from rural Ontario. The attached article is a generous account of the bureaucratic discussions circulating in Toronto and Guelph. It is no coincidence that these discussions follow the report released last year by "The panel on the role of Government" that states Rural Ontario is unsustainable and its people should be relocated to the more healthy and sustainable "urban environment". Furthermore the report suggests that all subsidies for rural Ontario be eliminated and increased environmental regulations be added.”  The Landowner, July 2005.

Maureen Callahan, “The Great Wide Open, How Rural America has become a dying way of life” NY Post, October 9, 2011

Marion Campbell, “The Nature Conservancy and the Wildlands Project”  All Maine Matters, January 2006

William P. Foley,  “As Logging Fades, Rich Carve Up Open Land in West”  New York Times, October 13, 2007

Dave Skinner, “Guest opinion: Bison lovers scheme to take over Montana prairie”  Billings Gazette, August 4, 2012

National Wildlife Federation advocate Steve Woodruff (July 21 guest opinion) tried to buffalo readers recently, claiming concerns of Montana producers regarding free-roaming bison are “fanciful fears,” the “worst fears of catastrophizers.”

‘For decades, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming livestock producers begged the National Park Service to manage the brucellosis problem in its overpopulated Yellowstone herd. The NPS foolishly refused. As a result, a dangerous exotic disease from the other side of the planet is firmly rooted in Yellowstone, and spreading.

“Yellowstone-region elk, a wide-ranging, popular game species that traditionally shares ground with cows, caught brucellosis from bison. Ask Bridger ranch couple Jim and Sandy Morgan what happened then.” 

“Governor’s Blue Ribbon Fire Commision Report to the Governor”, Senator William Campbell, Chairman, 2008” extract:

“Foremost among those lessons, is the lack of political will to prioritize among competing but important, public policy goals.Vegetation and fuel management, habitat preservation and environmental protection have often conflicted with sound fire safeplanning in the development of wildland areas. When adverse weather and fuel conditions combine, our firefighters have been given the impossible task of protecting life and property in the face of those policy conflicts.”

“Canadian loggers oppose Yellowstone to Yukon corridor”, November 26, 1998 Montana Standard GREEN RIVER, Wyo. (AP) “Wildlife conservation zone, backed by the Sierra Club and other organizations, would cost Canadian jobs, Critics say.”

Doug Struck with contributions from reporters Ben Arnoldy in India, Sara Miller Llana in Panama, Ilene R. Prusher in Israel, Kathy Marks in Australia, and Katy Jordan and Tyler Maltbie in Boston “Carbon offsets: Green project offends Indian farmers who lose land to windmills”. Christian Science Monitor and the New England Center for Investigative Reporting. April 20, 2010

“A Dutch bank that bought carbon offsets to neutralize its carbon footprint was unaware that poor Indian farmers had been aggrieved by the green project.”

Ann Corcoran “Denis Hayes Talks About the Environmental Movement Land Rights Letter, March 1993.

R. Smith “FEDERAL LAND-GRABS ARE DESTROYING AMERICAN DREAM”  Human Events, October 8, 2008

Ike Sugg, “Rats, Lies and the GAO”  Sugg Testimony on Wildfires and the Endangered Species Act.  August 1, 1994

Mark Dowie, Human Nature” Guernica, May 2008

 “Is modern conservation linked with ethnic cleansing? In an excerpt from his new book, the investigative historian explores the concepts of wilderness and nature, and argues that the removal of aboriginal human beings from their homeland to create a commodified wilderness is a deliberate charade.”

Florence Williams, Landowners turn the Fifth into sharp-pointed sword” High Country News -- February 8, 1993 (Vol.25 No.2)

Thom Randall, “LAWS COST PROPRIETORS THEIR LIVELIHOOD.  DEC liens for fuel-tank-leak cleanup costs putting some out of business” Poststar.com

Jon Reisman, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Policy with the University of Maine at Machias   “Maine Is Not Alone in Experiencing Rural Cleansing”   November 16th, 2008, Property Rights Foundation of America Conference in Albany, New York.

The Infamous “Slide #8” on Nonconforming Uses and Structures Washington Dept. of Ecology.

Betty Renkor, October 25, 2007.  This slide states long-term goal for all legal non-conforming structures as elimination.  Questioned, Ms. Renkor answered as follows:

Friday, September 11, 2009 8:09 AM: “I will need to review the presentation to determine whether it still reflects Ecology policy  and thought. “

September 16, 2009 10:42 AM: “I reviewed the October 2007 presentation on nonconforming uses and structures. It still reflects Ecology thought on this topic. “

Thursday, December 17, 2009: “Don't be misled … Unfortunately, a rumor is getting legs based on a single sentence plucked out of context from one guidance presentation Ecology gave to city and county planners in October 2007.”

"Huge BLM Victory in the Sierra Nevada.  Black Rock Protection Approved". Carson City Nevada Appeal, December 16, 2004“  “Senator Richard Bryan's (D-NV) 1.2 million acre measure included protection for approximately 800,000 acres in eleven (11) wilderness areas under terms of the 1964 Wilderness Act. Another 400,000 acres became protected zones of the Black Rock Desert/High Rock Canyon Emigrant Trails National Conservation Area.”

Ted Miller “ RURAL CLEANSING BY ENDANGERED SPECIES”, Offroad.com.  December 1, 2005

Kimberly A Strassel, “Rural Cleansing. Environmentalists' goal: Depopulate the countryside.”  Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2001

John Berlau, “The Environmentalist Fires” American Thinker October 29, 2007

Patrick J. Carr and Maria J. Kefalas “The Rural Brain Drain”, Chronicle of Higher Education, September 2009

Husband-and-wife sociologists Patrick J. Carr (Rutgers University at New Brunswick) and Maria J. Kefalas (Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia) Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America, Beacon Press. 2009

David Whitney, “Whose Paradise Is It? A drive to designate a scenic stretch of Humbolt as wilderness runs into landowners who cherish their piece of heaven,” Sacremento Bee, April 24, 2005

Tim Findley, Klamath Redux, Range Magazine, Summer 2008

Congressman Denny Rebberg, “You Might Oppose The Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act If …”  NewWest.net May 30, 2009

“In this guest column, Rep. Denny Rehberg, R-Montana, defends his opposition to the Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act and takes offense at opponents of the legislation being called "anti-wilderness rednecks.”

Canadian Grant Perspectives, 2008.  This chart examines the relative funding of health and cancer research with environmental granting. 

“Tracking the Field”, Environmental Grantmakers, Foundation Center, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012

“EPA Doles-Out Taxpayer Dollars to Environmentalist Activist Groups”  The Foundary, Heritage, May 19, 2011

John Rosenthal, “The EU Connection in Climate Research; Millions of euros come with an agenda”, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.  August 1st, 2010.

Darren Saumuelson, “Green donors taking time to soul search”

“Wealthy donors spent about a half billion dollars helping green groups try to pass climate legislation and prep the guts of a new international global warming treaty.  Politico, May 31, 2011

IRS Form 990, Greenpeace Fund, 2009       

Annual Reports, Greenpeace International, 1994 – 2009

Financial Plan for the Period 2009–2012, IUCN  WORLD CONSERVATION CONGRESS 5–14 October 2008, Barcelona, Spain

A Backyard Field Guide to Canadians, Select Canadian Research Findings, McAllister Opinion Research, May 1, 2010

Robert J Brulle and J. Craig Jenkins, “Foundations and the Environmental Movement:  Priorities, Strategies and Impact.  Various sources including all from http://scholar.google.ca/scholar?q=foundations+and+the+environmental+movement+priorities+strategies+and+impact&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=CoFTUK33EYSfiAKRoIHQCQ&ved=0CBoQgQMwAA

The EU budget: lean and green”  EurActive, 11 July 2011

50 Largest Foundations by Assets, Annual Donations, Gifts Received. 2002-2008, FC Stats: The Foundation Center's Statistical Information Service (www.fdncenter.org/fc_stats)

Robert Brulle, “Table 2: Income Distribution - Top 50 U.S. Environmental Organizations, 2003 Organization Income % of Income, Urban Institute, 2003

J. R. Pegg, U.S. House Boosts Spending for Environment, Conservation WASHINGTON, DC,  “The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation to increase funding for environmental protection, national parks and conservation by some $1.2 billion. “ Environmental News Service, June 28, 2007

 

 

Green Energy

Wynton Hall,  “80% of ‘Green Energy’ Loans Went to Top Obama Donors”, Big Government, November 26, 2011

Tom Stilson, “Rockport Capital:  Crony Capitalism Goes Green” Big Government,  April 6, 2012

 

C J Claramella, “‘Green Energy’ Loan Beneficiary Fisker Automotive Cuts Jobs Fisker received $529 million in taxpayer funding”.  Washington Free Beacon, February 7, 2012

Michael W. Chapman and Fred Lucas, “$9 Billion in ‘Stimulus’ for Solar, Wind Projects Made 910 Final Jobs -- $9.8 Million Per Job.”  CNS News, June 20, 2012

Antony Watts, “Another Obama sanctioned taxpayer funded boondoggle goes bellyup”  Watts Up with That, April 2, 2012

Eric Lipton and Clifford Krauss, “Clean energy projects powered by massive subsidies. With risk low, big companies eager to invest”.  New York Times, November 12, 2011.

Yuliya Chernova, “Coskata Joins IPO Queue As Biofuel Stocks Suffer” VentureWire Dowjones, December 16, 2011,  “Khosla Ventures is among the firms that have provided more than $85 million to the company, which has no revenue...”. 

“DOE grant recipient, flywheel energy storage maker Beacon Power files for bankruptcy" PowerGrid  International  November 1, 2011 — Beacon Power Corp., a manufacturer and developer of flywheel energy storage technology that has received Department of Energy funding, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the U.S. Bankruptcy court in Delaware.

“In July 2011, Beacon Power inaugurated a 20 MW flywheel energy storage plant in Stephentown, New York. Company revenues from the plant were $525,000 in the second quarter of 2011. The money for the New York plant came from the DOE in the form of a loan guarantee under the Energy Policy Act of 2005. In 2009, Beacon was offered a loan guarantee of about tune of $43 million to build the plant.”

U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office “Our Projects”

“The Financing Force Behind America’s Clean Energy Economy

The Department of Energy’s Loan Programs enable DOE to work with private companies and lenders to mitigate the financing risks associated with building out commercial-scale clean energy projects, thereby encouraging the broader and more rapid growth of the sector. The Loan Programs Office is one of the largest and most active project finance operations in the world and, since 2009, has supported a robust, diverse portfolio of nearly 40 projects. Projects include the world’s largest wind farm, several of the world’s largest solar generation facilities, one of the country’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plants, and the first new nuclear power plant in the U.S. in the last three decades.  Collectively, these projects plan to employ more than 60,000 Americans, create additional tens of thousands of indirect jobs, provide enough clean electricity to power three million homes, and save more than 300 million gallons of gasoline a year. Many of these projects are first-of-a-kind that, when completed, can be replicated entirely but the private sector across the U.S., creating even more jobs and increasing our nation’s ability to compete successfully in this critical field on a global basis.”

Jim McBride, “Feds Call Bankrupt Energy Firm an Empty Shell”, Washington Times, April 9, 2012.

Timothy P. Carney, “Firm Sells Solar Panels to Itself; Taxpayers Pay.”  Washington Examiner, March 18, 2012

“Firms Gobble Green Subsidies”, Sacramento Bee, November 26, 2011.

Abhishek Shah “First Solar Failure; 7 Reasons First Solar (NASDAQ:FSLR) is Done” Green Chip Stocks, Friday, March 30th, 2012

Christopher Martin and Jeff Green. “First Solar-to-Vestas Wind Profit Crash Deters New CEOs: Energy”  BusinessWeek,  February 21, 2012

Evelyn Rusli, “First Wind Retreats, Shelves IPO Plans, GreenTech, October 28, 2010.

Dan Chapman, “Ga. Failure not the only ethanol misadventure.”  Atlanta Journal Constitution, January 15, 2012.

Willis Eschenbach, “29% On You Money, Guaranteed!”  Watts Up With That, November 18, 2011

Zachary Tracer, “Nordic Windpower May Withdraw Bid for Loan Guarantee From U.S.”  Bloomberg News Oct 4, 2011 1:36 AM PT

Obama Bundlers, Large Donors, and Supporters, Breitbart.com (as of September 15, 2011)

Todd Woody, “Abound Solar, Recipient Of $400 Million Federal Loan Guarantee, Halts Production”, Forbes, March 1, 2012.

Becket Adams, “President Obama Issues Major ‘Green Energy’ Executive Order, The Blaze, September 3, 2012.

Steve Leone, Associate Editor, “Solar Struggles Continue: Q-Cells to File for Bankruptcy RenewableEnergyWorld.com. April 2, 2012

Christopher Martin. “SolarCity Loan Guarantee Rejected by U.S. in Wake of Solyndra’s Bankruptcy” – Bloomberg News,  24 September 2011

Published: November 11, 2011 “Stacking Clean Energy Subsidies”

“Since 2009, extensive federal and state subsidies have been offered for solar power. An analysis by Booz & Company shows the ways in which government subsidies have turned one such project — NRG’s California Valley Solar Ranch — into an almost surefire investment.”  New York Times, November 11, 2011

Matthew C. Keegan. “Avoid bankruptcy, Borrows $ 40 million”  Autosport, December 12th, 2011.

 

Green Mistakes, Green Theft 

“Heads Or Whales?”  Investors Business Daily, Tuesday, August 07, 2007 4:20 PM PT

“National Security: A judge has told the Navy that it cannot use high-powered sonar in its training exercises off the California coast. Saving marine animals, it seems, is more important than protecting American lives.”

Ron Arnold, “Overcoming Ideology” from A Wolf in the Garden : The Land Rights Movement and the New Environmental Debate
 Edited by Philip D. Brick and R. McGreggor Cawley, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., Lanham, Maryland, 1996

Frank Miniter, "Some Enviros Carry Guns", Range Magazine, Winter 2008

Video at clintdidier.com - Catastrophic Fires a Direct Result to Produce Good Stewardship, October 2012

Steven H. Rich, "Don't Point the Finger, Point the Way, Opportunity for Grand Canyon Trust" Range Magazine, Winter 2008.

 

 

 

 

 

The Hage Case 

Wayne Hage, Storm Over Rangelands, Private Rights in Federal Lands Free Enterprise Press, Bellevue Washington, 1989.

Tim Findley, “Badge Vs. Badge”, Range Magazine, Winter 2003.

Tim Findley, “David & Goliath.”When Big Brother decided to hold Wayne Hage and his rights hostage, this articulate, tenacious, driven rancher decided to fight back–and he’s winning.”  Range Magazine, Summer 2001.

Tim Findley, “Victory at Pine Creek”, Range Magazine, Fall 2008

Sandra Chereb, Wayne Hage, Nevada rancher and sagebrush rebel, dies” The Associated Press, June 6, 2006

Joseph Feller, The Wayne Hage Case: Public Grazing Land & Private Water Rights.

(ejn: This power point presentation attempts to make the case that grazing and water rights are held exclusively by the agency who lends these rights out and which can confiscate those rights at any time.  Needless to say, the presenter works for Arizona State University and the National Wildlife Federation.)

“American Ranching Family Wins 17-Year Battle with the Federal Government - Landmark decision in Hage v U.S. Issued by Federal Court of Claims”.  Tonopah, Nevada (PRWEB) June 10, 2008 -- An epic 17-year battle between an American ranching family and the federal government has ended in favor of the family. The estates of Wayne and Jean Hage can finally claim a Fifth Amendment precedent-setting property rights victory.”

Doug Parris, “17 Years For Justice -The Final Chapter in the Saga of Wayne Hage”. TheReaganWing.com June 14, 2008