One of our recently elected county supervisors is on record as being unalterably opposed to the conservancy, and will work against it as well as he can. The Mojave Desert-Mountain Resource Conservation and Development Council has a preponderance of members who oppose it, and who are also in regular communication with government entities that do (BLM, Forestry, Cal Fish and Game, etc.), and there are many others who stand foursquare in favor of private property rights.
Win, lose or draw, there will be some activity from our end.
Thanks for your encouragement. I and the few others on here that are repulsed by this seem to be screaming into deaf ears!!! It's just stunning!!! It's like fartin in a whirlwind!!!
There is a division of CA F&G, called The Wildlife Conservation Board, that is about the most corrupt danged thing in existance in CA!!!
Assemblyman David Knowles, who preceded Assemblyman, now State Senator Rico Oller tried to have this corrupt branch of F&G audited at one time, just before he termed out and moved over to the State Dept. of Insuance. He got nowhere!!!
This division of F&G, The Wildlife Conservation Board is foursquare in favor of the SNC as they thrive on all the "Land Trusts" and private "Conservancies" who operate as "Not For Profit, But For Huge Expenses & Salaries" corporations. They facilitate these GANG-GREEN NGO's by paying huge mark-ups to them for the land they manage to coerce from "willing sellers" with taxpayer's funds!!!
Then these same GANG-GREEN NGO's can fund litigation and political activites like "No Growth" ballot measures galore to facilitate more "Rural Cleansing" along the same vein (as in gold vein)!!!
The routine is... First they corner the large landowner by smearing them that they are "probably gonna develop" their property and whip all the flatlanders that just moved in next door to the property from LA, that the owner is gonna "pave over paradise" (that beautiful openspace next door with the awful, stinkin, mooing cattle running all over it) and get the property off the tax rolls for far below it's potential value.
Then, the GANG-GREEN NGO gets it appraised as if it's actually going to be developed into a massive resort and huge housing development, etc., then offers it at that HUGE PRICE to the Wildlife Conservation Board which has billions stored over the years!!!
This money, almost enough to settle the deficits Gray Davis and the Demonicrats ran up, comes mostly from hidden measures in numerous mis-named "Parks, Water and Recreation" BOND and FEE statewide ballot measures that the city slickers just keep on voting for. Gerald Meral got so many of these passed that he finally retired from shooting ducks in a barrel, because he just got bored with it.
You, Mugwump, probably are aware of some of this, but I pinged a few others to point this scam and how it works, out to them.