FLORIDA DONATES LAND FOR EXPANSION OF EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK

EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK - In another milestone for restoration of America’s Everglades, Florida today donated the last parcel of state-owned property needed to complete the massive expansion of Everglades National Park launched by President George H. W. Bush in 1989. A total of 42,000 acres of state land was donated to the federal government to accomplish plans to grow the park by 109,000 acres – a move necessary to restore the natural flow, habitat and wildlife of the famed River of Grass.

“More than fifty years ago, Florida donated land to the federal government to create the Everglades National Park,” said Governor Jeb Bush. “More than 1 million acres later, Florida’s commitment to the restoration and protection of this natural treasure remains steadfast.”

In 1946, Florida invested $2 million to acquire privately-owned land in the Everglades. The following year, President Harry S Truman established Everglades National Park on 460,000 acres of land donated by Florida, including a donation by the State Federation of Women’s Clubs of the nearly 3700-acre Royal Palm State Park.

"The state of Florida has indeed been a good friend to the National Park Service and, in particular, to Everglades National Park," said National Park Service Director Fran Mainella. "This is a remarkable day for one of America's most revered national parks.”

Everglades National Park was the first national park established to preserve a natural biological system – not a geological phenomenon. Less than a foot deep in most places, the slow moving river spans more than 2.4 million acres across the southern tip of the peninsula, flowing from Lake Okeechobee south into the crystal waters of the Florida Bay.

“Expanding Everglades National Park eastward will allow water to sweep across the lower peninsula of Florida much like it did a century ago,” said Department of Environmental Protection Secretary David B. Struhs. “Under Governor Bush’s leadership, restoration of the Everglades is providing real-life tangible benefits to the people of South Florida. Returning a more natural flow of water to the River of Grass will revive the habitat of more than 60 endangered animals at the same time it replenishes underground drinking water supplies.”

The Everglades is a mosaic of sawgrass prairies, hardwood hammocks, cypress swamps, coastal lagoons, mangroves and pinelands. Known throughout the world for its abundant bird life, the Everglades is home to several species of large wading birds such as the roseate spoonbill, the wood stork, the great blue heron and a variety of egrets. The mix of salt and freshwater makes it the only place on earth where alligators and crocodiles exist side-by-side.

“Florida has made unprecedented progress acquiring the land needed to restore the Everglades,” said South Florida Water Management District Executive Director Henry Dean. “This final donation to Everglades National Park is another example of Florida’s unwavering commitment to Everglades restoration and the future of South Florida.”

I spent several hours on the website of the Florida Statutes 2003 on Friday, looking at many things, but in particular was interested and shocked at Title XVIII, Chapter 259 for Public Lands and Property/Land Acquisition for Conservation OR Recreation [note that word 'or'. Every other time I have heard of this it was 'Conservation AND Recreation'. Reading between the lines, that is exactly what they mean. The land will be protected by barring the peasants' access.]. This is the link I used on Friday to access Chapter 259 http://www.flsenate.gov/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&URL=Ch0259/ch0259.htm . It does not seem to be working at the moment.

This is the Wildlands Project [ http://www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org ] being implemented in Florida through legislation. The Wildlands Project is nothing short of communism. period. Property rights go by the wayside along with every other right.

From another page, this quote could be applied to what is happening in the Land Grab arena as well:

"...The focus of the statewide strategic planning process is to develop, with BROAD GRASSROOTS and STAKEHOLDER PARTICIPATION, a road map of key priorities for ensuring Florida’s competitiveness in the global economy...." http://www.eflorida.com/strategicplan/

This is NWO/UN lingo for rule by consensus. 'Stakeholder' is not the same as 'property owner'. 'Stakeholders' are the two foxes deciding with the one duck ('property owner') who's for dinner.

Open Letter to the People of Florida [from FL Gov Jeb Bush, re: Everglades Restoration] http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/913320/posts

URGENT: DISABLED VET TO MAKE HISTORY AS FIRST FLORIDA HOMESTEAD TO BE CONFISCATED VIA EMINENT DOMAIN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/861062/posts

Everglades Cleanup Exposes Environmentalists http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/994686/posts

Report: Eminent-domain abuse widespread http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/897770/posts

Collier set to consider Everglades restoration plan. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/953744/posts

ECOFRAUDS EXPOSED Part 1: Fat of the land; Movement's prosperity comes at a high price http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1012998/posts

Another related link:

The nightmare state eminent domain process (First hand account)
Florida Sound Off ^ | 09-18-03 | Bob Stone

Posted on 09/18/2003 7:44 AM PDT by AAABEST
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/984892/posts

WILDLANDS MAP OF US
The Wildlands Project and UN Convention on Biological Diversity Plan to Restore Biodiversity in the United States
http://www.discerningtoday.org/wildlands_map_of_us.htm

The world is being divided up by and for the NWO 'elite'
From http://www.4x4wire.com/access/education/nm_twp/nm_twp_pt13.htm
Wildlands and UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Program

November 1999

By Doug Hindson

Last time we discussed the origins of the "conservation" movement. You will recall CONSERVATION WAS USED TO CLOSE LAND TO HUMAN SETTLEMENT and restrict access to natural resources in the western United States. **** Associated with the term "conservation" was a fledgling EUGENICS MOVEMENT whose purpose was to engineer the human population.

In 1968 an International Biosphere Conference urged the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) to establish a program that would manage the world's natural resources on a biosphere basis. UNESCO's program became known as Man and the Biosphere (MAB). A biosphere reserve or "eco-region" is a huge tract of land of several million hectares set aside for the exclusive preservation of nature--read natural resources. Over time human occupation and economic activity are gradually eliminated. While Canadians might participate in the management of these areas, policy is determined by UN treaty while Canadian sovereignty is severely eroded. Eventually private property is regulated out of existence. The economic benefactors include the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who later participate in running the bio-region, unelected bureaucrats, academic sycophants and transnational resource cartels.

The Niagara Escarpment, Ontario; Long Point, Ontario; Riding Mountain, Manitoba; Mont. Ste. Hilaire, Quebec; Waterton Lakes, Alberta and Isabella Bay, Baffin Island, NWT. have been declared part of UNESCO's World Network of Biosphere Reserves. Across Canada, more reserves are in the planning stages including one that covers central British Columbia from Alaska to Wyoming.

In a special 1992 edition of Wild Earth, plans were published for what the authors called "The Wildlands Project." Among the creators of Wildlands were Board members Dave Foreman, founder of the environmental terrorist group, Earth First!, Reed Noss editor of the journal "Conservation Biology" and Michael SoulZ, founder of the Society of Conservation Biologists. Foreman is also a Director of the Sierra Club. Harvey Locke, a Calgary lawyer and former president of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) is also a director of The Wildlands Project.

*** Wildlands will affect everyone in North America. According to Charles Mann and Mark Plummer writing in the June 1993 edition of "Science" magazine, Wildlands "calls for nothing less than resettling the entire continent. It calls for a network of wilderness reserves, human buffer zones and wildlife corridors stretching across huge tracts of land -- hundreds of millions of acres; as much as half the continent." Mike Coffman, Ph.D., President of Environmental Perspectives and author of Saviors of Earth says, *** "Under the plan, one quarter of (Canada and) the United States would be turned into wilderness where all human activity would literally cease. Another quarter of the land would be set aside in buffer zones where human activity would be severely limited." The migration habits of large mammals--wolves, bear, lynx or so-called endangered species--are employed as the reason to cease human activity in these bio-regions.

In the October/November, 1996 issue of The Ottawa Times, an article entitled World Eco-Congress Suggests Depopulation restates the goal of Wildlands, "is to return at least half of North America to wilderness. . . " Reporting on Harvey Locke's presentation to the Eco-Congress, The Times said a map presented to Locke's audience indicated that "Calgary and Edmonton fall within a buffer zone and would, therefore, have to be significantly DEPOPULATED and their industrial and technological activity severely regulated."

** According to Wild Earth, an environmental magazine published by Foreman and his partners, "it exists to remind conservationists that . . all lands and waters should be left to the whims of Nature, not to the selfish desires of one species who chose for itself the misnomer, Homo Sapiens. Does The Wildlands Project advocate the end of industrial civilization? Most assuredly. Everything must go."

Within the bio-regions, all roads are to be torn up. The land is to be returned to the state which existed before the arrival of Columbus. Incredibly, a program called "Road Rip" has been established with Foreman, Noss and SoulZ, sitting on the Advisory Board. Road Rip's goal is to close roads, have them removed and prevent the construction of new ones.

In 1996, "The Seville Strategy," integrated The Wildlands Project into UNESCO's international Man and the Biosphere (MAB) program, linking it to the 1992 Earth Summit's Agenda 21 and the Convention on Biological Diversity. These two UN treaties bind the world to global governance as spelled out in the UN's Report of the Commission on Global Governance. [Oxford University Press, (1995)] Currently, Wildlands is now being implemented across North America as an integral part of MAB.

****In October, 1997, Prince Philip presented the North American Conservation Assessment/ North America's Living Legacy to a Washington D.C. news conference. After months of digging, a copy of the press package was obtained and a copy of the report was reviewed at WWF's Toronto office. The document was prepared by the United States and Canadian branches of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF). What we found was alarming. **** The WWF document is a plan that would carve North America into 116 biosphere reserves or "eco-regions", in effect Balkanizing Canada and the United States. Most of the 116 "eco-regions" cut across one or more political boundaries, international, state or provincial. When implemented, Canada would cease to exist as a nation.

The nearly 600 pages of the WWF report describe each "eco-region", its major habitat type, the size of the planned area, the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) responsible for pushing the agenda forward and a number of other details relating to the biogeography and biodiversity of the region.

WWF's "Living Legacy" report refers to Ontario's plan as "eco-region 8". It covers more than 346,700 sq. km. (214,969 sq. mi.) of the resource-bearing lands of the southern Canadian shield in Ontario and Quebec and parts of western New York and eastern Vermont. Ontario has renamed Lands for Life, calling it "Ontario's Living Legacy."

Interestingly, the WWF report assigns the task of implementing their "eco-region 8" to The Wildlands League, the WWF, The Federation of Ontario Field Naturalists, the ultra radical Earthroots and several other lesser-known environmental NGO's.

Next, we will discuss what we have learned about how these "eco-regions" are being used in other countries in our hemisphere and in Africa. The public has been deceived not only by the Harris government, they have been used as pawns to help implement a revolutionary international program. The strategy used is a classic: the agenda is set by top down international treaty obligations; then upward pressure is applied by NGOs and a tiny segment of a well intentioned but dangerously misinformed public supplying the orchestrated "grassroots" support.

Doug Hindson passed away last year. He was geopolitical researcher and lived in rural northeast Toronto, Ontario. He was a regular contributor to the print media in his area, and was a panelist on "In Search of Understanding," a weekly television show. He was also a member of the Advisory Board of Sovereignty International, Inc.

Reprinted with permission from Henry Lamb's Ecologic Online: http://www.eco.freedom.org/el/

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