[brityank]

Donna Williams, who as chairwoman of the Grafton Conservation Commission spearheaded the ACEC effort, ...

... said that "the landowners have been good stewards of the land. No one is arguing that." But, she said, "can they continue to be good stewards? Not with the development pressures you have in this region. ...

... In an article for Sanctuary magazine, a publication of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, for which she works, Williams castigates "property rights zealots."

On the subject of seeking ACEC designations, she advises against bringing elected officials into the nomination process, because they will "fold up like paper parasols on grapefruits when buffeted by a political breeze. You need only 10 nominators. Use committed environmentalists with strong spines."

More of the UN Agenda 21 boilerplate in action -- since 1975.

[brityank]

Index and info.

Property Rights is not just a Western Problem.

[brityank]

Info on the Rhode Island wetlands case: Palazzolo v. Rhode Island

[Aquinasfan]

Hey, this affects my town. I haven't heard anything about this. I'll have to ask around. Thanks for the heads up!

[George Frm Br00klyn Park]

"Massachusetts officials say the program is mostly about educating people about precious resources in the state, not slowing development."

BY, If the "state" is to control property, the "state" should own AND pay taxes on that property. JUST as the private property owner HAS to pay taxes. Peace and love, George.

[BufordP]

Tom Casale hasn't actually seen a ringed boghaunter dragonfly lately. But if he did, he'd probably swat it dead.

Just a friendly ping, you eco-terrorist. :-)

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks for the post! Wonder how many people in this latest Eco Terrorist target area of private property are card carrying members of these enviral groups and up to this moment have pictured the envirals as heros!

There is a key phrase that the enviral nazis and their buds, the maggots in the left wing media use. Whenever we hear this phrase, we should think of the first real enviralist, Adolf Hitler and how he want to make Rural Germany free of evil people and cram the evil Volks into the cities! The current enviralist want to do the same to all Americans exept the Druid elite of the eco terrorists!

That phrase is the innocent sounding "War on sprawl!"

This article had this statement: "has become another flashpoint in the war on sprawl, as environmentalists seek to protect undeveloped land and landowners raise constitutional objections based on property rights.

Decoding these enviral words. Sprawl means human and beings wanting to live in a good area and not crammed into a Goron inner city, thousands /acre.

When we read War on Sprawl, we need to know that is eco terrorism code for war on humans living in areas where they don't want us to live. We are the Sprawl, that they hate!

[hattend]

BTTT

[MadameAxe]

Thanks; bttt...

[editor-surveyor]

"can they continue to be good stewards? Not with the development pressures you have in this region. We can't be certain of the future. It's necessary to have this kind of review to protect these resources."

Elitist B!tch!

[1Old Pro]

Property rights, gun ownership rights,abortion as a right to privacy.....our constitution is slowly being shredded.

[Sabertooth]

Oh, my heart is just freeping bleeding to pieces for Massachusetts and the rest of the good-for-nothing postage stamp states of New England.

These parcels of pompousity wouldn't even make a decent county out West, yet they keep sending up a dozen self-congratulatory senators (and hardly more congressmen) who think nothing of the federal hording of 60% of the land west of the Mississippi.

Once we're done grabbing 60% of the land from Connecticut to Maine, I vote we export enough California colonistas to increase the population on the remaining land there by 10% to 20%.

This article has put a vicious, vengeful grin on this Californian's face. If New England doesn't like it, then they can go clean their own house, so that we'll finally be able to clean ours.

[Ben Ficklin]

Who may nominate and elgibility features

[The Mayor]

Hopkinton is my home town, I have relatives in Grafton and Upton.
Bump for later read

[goodieD]

as I've said before..I'm more than ready to make environmentalism a crime..

[connectthedots]

"It's not right," Casale said. "Why should one half of the town be under this jurisdiction while the other side of town is not? It's a land-taking, and the thing that has us really up in arms is, they tried to push it through in a covert manner."

I wonder who owns property in the half of town that is not restricted and then compare it to the list of people who are behind the effort to take away the property rights of others.

Strikes me as being suspect, just like the fact that members of the Sierra Club are much more likely to have red wood decks than the average person. Then there was the president of the local chapter of the Sierra Club in the Spokane, WA, area many years ago who illegaly logged 20 acres of his own property but saw nothing wrong with that. Like all liberals, their rules only apply to others.

[Flyer]

Any 10 people can nominate an area for ACEC designation by showing the land has four of 11 characteristics

Sounds like it's very easy to get the designation. Did someone see a lynx?

[SuperLuminal]

BTTT

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

"and the thing that has us really up in arms is, they tried to push it through in a covert manner."

This is right in my neck of the woods...next town over as a matter of fact.
I am a Town Meeting member and this type of "get it done quick while nobody is looking" type of thing goes on all the time up here.
We've caught the town Board of Selectmen and the Sewer Commission a couple of times, trying to ramrod warrants through that would benefit industry at the expense of residents.
They're like little kids. You have to watch them every second of the day.