Look you can think whatever you want. I am not telling you how to live in California. If you don't want a Heritage area there, then by all means don't have one. Ours has tremendous public support, the biggest complaint was that it was not big enough.
Property owners here are not afraid of the NPS or the Heritage Area. They can read and know what the law says. Heck there are more lawyers here per capita than in any other state.
You fight for what you want to in California but don't get yer panties in a bunch when we fight for what we want back east. Like I told the other California guy, I don't know what his exact situation is. Don't pretend to know what ours is.
XRdsRev, over 60% of CA is owned by the Federal Governemt alone. States like Nevada and Alaska are worse. We spend our lives fighting the government over land. And no, they don't have to buy the land to steal it. They regulate it.
I have read all your posts on this and can see you are a real supporter of what you are doing but there is problems with this that you are unwilling to see or listen to. The things you are doing do effect us out here in the west, and you are unwilling to see how.
You need to start reading up on Agenda 21. Then after you have walked a mile in our shoes, you come back and tell us how right you were.