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Incidentally, as of last Aug. 11, the Obama administration had committed nearly $21 billion in loan guarantees to 32 clean energy projects and enrolled 7.1 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program, which retires environmentally sensitive farm lands and has set aside 300,000 acres in the program specifically to benefit game species; partnering military with state and local governments, land trusts, and landowners to secure conservation easements through the Readiness and Environmental Protection Initiative (REPI) which protects more than 170,000 acres; removing 86,927 tons of biomass from our National Forests to produce energy.

Part of President Obama's America's Great Outdoors initiative is to ensure protection of large, rural landscapes and the abundance of fish and wildlife – and announced a new initiative that will spur these collaborative efforts through community-based coalitions of private landowners, conservation groups, and state and federal agencies.

CALLED LAND GRABBING!!!!!!!!!!!

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Part of President Obama's America's Great Outdoors initiative is to ensure protection of large, rural landscapes and the abundance of fish and wildlife – and announced a new initiative that will spur these collaborative efforts through community-based coalitions of private landowners, conservation groups, and state and federal agencies. CALLED LAND GRABBING!!!!!!!!!!!

Maybe even worse - I can imagine the "protected" areas becoming no-man's land and being used to contain the People by providing do-not-cross boundaries. Might be jumping the gun on this, but so many gun-jumpers of yore have been vindicated by their worst fears becoming rality. These days we MUST ALWAYS look for possible permutations of EVERYTHING the governemnt hits us with.