Wonderful.
Agenda 21
These migration corridors will not cost the govt one stinking penny. They will simply place so many land use restrictions on the private property they covet that it will become useless to the owner. Govt does it all of the time. No reason to think that they won’t do it for this project.
It never ends, I imagine that there is a whole lot of farmland that is effected too. They will use these ‘corridors’ to show the need to confiscate everything in them to protect Bambi and the Ducks.
This government favors politicians and other wildlife over human beings.
I have been doing native plant habitat restoration for twenty years. Our property contains the most purely native restored grasslands (including small forbs), possibly in all of North America. Where once there were but 60 plant species there are now 357, on a piece of land that has suffered from exotic introductions since August 1791 with continuous animal traffic, agriculture, and abandonment thereafter. No, I'm not kidding. I am in the process of preparing an article for a technical journal on that very topic. What the greenies could not do, they are now realizing we have done.
You see, it's hard work. They think "Nature" is self-optimizing. It isn't. This was an anthropogenic landscape for thousands of years. They don't realize that "Nature" doesn't care what it becomes, even if it looks like Mars.
The Wildlands Project is, without a doubt, the most disastrous ecological management plan ever devised. This emphasis upon fauna without fixing the botanical basis for their survival will backfire. Exotic species will spread without constraint into ever more decadent niches with native plant seed long exhausted. One might as well try to build a new house on a rotting wooden foundation. The entire foundational biological relationship between soils and annual post-disturbance plants will then be gone. If you want extinctions, this is a great plan.
The only ‘refuges’ we need to establish are a sufficient number of Gulags to inter these evil people.
Unlikely? This is a comment unworthy of Ron Arnold. I was in Salt Lake City at the Freedom21 Conference in 2001. Ron Arnold was there to hawk his book Undue Influence. Dr. Robert Coffman's Wildlands Project map was prominently displayed in the foyer complete with color coded "wildlife corridors."
I know he saw it.
In that I was there to hawk my book, Natural Process and he is a publisher, I talked with him for quite a while. At the time, he wasn't buying the Agenda21, calling it a "conspiracy theory." He knows better now but he's still offering crap like this. I guess he needs to know mo-better.
Forester, you might want to gander post 26 as it is a better condensation than my usual.
Under what Constitutional clause does the federal government get to own State lands or any land outside of DC at all?
"Land, see 'Snatch'"