Posted on 01/31/2002 3:27:33 AM PST by brityank
Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:55 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
WASHINGTON -- Congress' efforts to convert the tallest sand dunes in North America into a Colorado national park and wildlife refuge took a big step Wednesday with a private conservation group buying a huge ranch next to it.
The Nature Conservancy said it is spending $31.28 million to purchase the 97,000-acre Baca Ranch and two 14,000-foot peaks in southern Colorado, next to Great Sand Dunes National Monument and Preserve. The ranch's plentiful aquifer keeps the 750-foot-high dunes intact and nourishes the San Luis Valley's farmers and ranchers.
(Excerpt) Read more at newsday.com ...
More taxpayer theft.
Any guesses on who/what gets first dibs on the water? < /retorical question>
That's gotta be Maurice Strong's Ranch!
From Rise of the Global Green Religion, by Henry Lamb
(Source: Meet Maurice Strong," ecologic, November/December, 1995, p. 4.):
Among Strong's world-wide holdings is a 63,000 acre Colorado ranch called the Baca Grande. It is a mecca for mystics. The ranch is home to a group called Disciples of the XVI Gyalwa Karmapa, a strain of Tibetan Buddhism. Shirley MacLaine planned to build her New Age Center at Baca, but locals resisted the idea of a resort. A group of Carmelites built the Spiritual Life Institute, a co-ed monastery for silent contemplation. The Disciples of Babaji, an Indian Guru, celebrate Hindu rituals in a $175,000 solar-powered, gold-domed, adobe temple which features an alabaster statue of Murti, the Divine Mother, built by the Lindesfarne Fellowship. There is a temple for Sufis, and another for Taoists. Still another group was blocked by county officials who quickly enacted a building height restriction when it was learned that the group intended to build a 46-story pink granite pyramid in compliance with instructions received from an intergalactic leader named Commander Kuthumi who was channeling from the planet Arturus. Strong and wife Hanne see the Baca Grande as the "Vatican City" of the new world order.
What a bunch of crap! What does anybody here bet that they'll "mitigate" all those "religious" shrines? Nope, this is more likely just another way for ol Maurice to look good while he pads his ample wallet.
He ran away from home at 14. His father retrieved him from Vancouver. But in 1945, after completing the 11th grade, Strong was off again to become an apprentice fur trader in Hudson Bay. Strong's business success was remarkable. At 19, he was an investment analyst. At 25, he was Vice President of Dome Petroleum. At 31, he became the President of Power Corporation of Canada. He headed both Petro Canada and Hydro Canada, and made a few deals on the side as well, one of which was the acquisition in 1978 of the Colorado Land & Cattle Company which owned 200,000 acres of San Luis Valley in Colorado -- from Saudi arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. (Marci McDonald, Maclean's, October 10, 1994, p. 51.)What a sweetie! Ain't a ranch safe for a hundred miles!The ranch, called Baca, sat on the continent's largest fresh water aquifer. Strong intended to pipe the water to the desert southwest, but environmental organizations protested and the plan was abandoned. Strong ended up with a $1.2 million settlement from the water company, an annual grant of $100,000 from Laurance Rockefeller, and still retained the rights to the water.
Guys, More control of that resource {water} that is MOST ESSENTIAL to life itself by godgov and its approved NGOs. Wonderful. As we have been warned for years no, "Water WILL become 'scarce'."! Peace and love, George.
Calling Art Bell, Calling Art Bell. This place sounds like Sedona on steroids.
From my book:
Maurice Strong is a Canadian billionaire, a Board member of Petro-Canada and Dome Petroleum, and President of Ontario Hydro. He is Director of the IUCN, Chairman of the Earth Council, Trustee of the Aspen Institute, Director of the World Future Society, Director of Finance for the Lindisfarne Association, founder of Planetary Citizens, member of the Club of Rome, Chairman of the World Resources Institute, and Co-Chairman and founder of the Council of the World Economic Forum and Senior Adviser to the President of the World Bank. He is President of the World Federation of United Nations Associations, Senior Advisor to the UN Secretary General and for the Rockefeller and Rothschild Trusts.Maurice Strong is the chief architect of Global Governance, and co-authored the Earth Charter with Mikhail Gorbachev (not exactly the equivalent of a Constitutional Convention, is it?).
H, The "Public Private Partnerships" between godgov and its assorted and approved corporations, and "Non-Governmental Organizations" is indeed reminiscent of Mussolinn's fascism, Hitler's "New Way", and the paperwork of the new "Third Way" forms of government. And, seldom, if ever, do the NGOs "give" property to the government. They generally make a HEALTHY profit for their "services". Example: HERE Peace and love, George.
NO NO NO, As all right thinking people know only the government (with the guidence of sandal wearing,tofu eating, tree hugging types who are in touch with our mother the earth and all our friends from the forest floor) can save the earth. Free Markets Right! < /sarcasm>
I guess the four wheeling at the dunes is about over with...
I love it when a plan comes together!
Hehehehe.
now THAT sounds like a real good idea. Question, how in the _____ did some one that stupid get enough money to buy and build a house?
Shades of Klamath -- the San Luis Valley is potato country. And very short of surface water...
Great Sand Dunes is a spectacular park, nonetheless. I wonder how we made it better by making it bigger, though...
MfO, You need to take a look at the Klamath_list, and Court Asked to Rule in Las Vegas Water Case to see how much godgov and its partnership NGOs appreciate the AG producers, and ranchers. Water WILL become more and more "scarce", and expensive with water rights in fewer and fewer hands. Peace and love, George.
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