Posted on 11/15/2006 8:36:52 AM PST by libertylovinactivist
Days ago, in a proposal unnoticed by the media, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced the largest land grab since President Clinton designated massive national monuments across the West. When Clinton decreed 1.9 million acres of federal land in Utah as the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument to kill a vast underground coal mine that would have employed 1,000 locals in the most economically depressed region of southern Utah, generated $20 million in annual revenue, and produced environmentally - compliant coal for generating electricity, there were protests across the West. When the Bush Administration published its plans, there was barely a ripple of protest.
Carolyn
Mr. Conservative strikes again.
More of President Bush's doings on behalf of the left so he doesn't get impeached? I'd like to think not.
Wasn't the Canadian Lynx thing a hoax to begin with? IIRC, the only difference between and American lynx and a Canadian one is where they live!
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Just Damn.
Small solace for us Texicans - as a once (and future) republic, we retained title to our public (government owned) land when we entered the Union. The feds do not own our real estate as they do in other states.
It looks like it was officials in the FWS who did this...not President Bush. He may have had no say in the matter. I don't see any similarity to Clinton's land grab (to benefit his foreign benefactors).
I have updated my FMCDH (From My Cold Dead Hands) sign-off with the addition of (BITS).....Blood In The Streets, which I foresee coming soon, due to the enormous increase of the Marxist progressive movement being shoved down the throat of this failing REPUBLIC through the Judicial tyranny of fiat law, the passing of unconstitutional laws by the Legislative and Executive branches of our government and the enormous tax burden placed upon the average American to support unconstitutional programs put forth by Marxist ideology.
I do not advocate revolution. I only think of what I foresee.
FMCDH(BITS)
Under the plan, 8.4 million acres of private land would be included, at a cost, over twenty years, of $889 million.
Although the plan includes Washington, Idaho, Montana, Minnesota, and Maine, its greatest impact is on the latter three with one million acres affected in both northwestern Montana and northeastern Minnesota and six million included in northern Maine.
I hope you're right.
Thousands of landowners will find their ability to use their private property greatly constrained, if litigious environmental groups have anything to say about it, and they will.
Worst of all, the FWS admits that, because the historic range of lynx only marginally includes the lower 48, the designation of critical habitat will achieve little, if anything.
For radical environmental groups, however, designation of critical habitat for the Canada lynx will achieve one thing: it will provide them with another tool to bar the use of private property coveted by the groups.
Looks to me like it's the result of activist judges, not the Administration. The article plainly says the Bush admin. lost the court battle.
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the federal court that ruled on the lynx has retained jurisdiction, apparently to preside over the implementation of the habitat rule.
That is very bad news for landowners, those who respect private property, and those who love freedom.
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I wonder how many other people would like to grab the president, put him in a headlock, and administer a well-deserved noogie? Over the past six years his moniker has changed in my mind and on my lips from "W" to "Shrub" to "twig," and now, to "Duh-Pee-Yew"!
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