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FReepers, don't let it end here! Sen. Murkowski, who along with Cong. Donald Young(?) (AK) gave us CARA, which robs from the American taxpayer in order to steal their land and make them serfs, and Sen. Jay Rockefeller (DO SEARCH 'ROCKFELLER' !!) sit on the Finance Committee. I suspect TNC was reined in (or at least seemingly) in order to sidestep further investigation into this travesty against this nation.

COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MAX BAUCUS, CHAIRMAN MEMBERSHIP -- 107TH CONGRESS

http://www.senate.gov/~finance/fin-comm.htm

Republicans

CHARLES E. GRASSLEY, IA ORRIN G. HATCH, UT FRANK H. MURKOWSKI, AK DON NICKLES, OK PHIL GRAMM, TX TRENT LOTT, MS FRED THOMPSON, TN OLYMPIA J. SNOWE, ME JON KYL, AZ CRAIG THOMAS, WY

Democrats

MAX BAUCUS, MT JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER IV, WV TOM DASCHLE, SD JOHN BREAUX, LA KENT CONRAD, ND BOB GRAHAM, FL JAMES M. JEFFORDS, VT JEFF BINGAMAN, NM JOHN F. KERRY, MA ROBERT G. TORRICELLI, NJ BLANCHE L. LINCOLN, AR

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US Senate Finance Committee http://www.senate.gov/~finance/fin-comm.htm

**** Mic 2:2And they covet fields, and take [them] by violence; and houses, and take [them] away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. http://www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Mic/2/2.html

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Isn't amazing how a little truth and spot lighting can change some organizations.

Non profits must be come a target of scrutiny for malfeasance, illegal use of funds for political campaigns and other questionable acts.

Marsh-Billings-ROCKEFELLER National Historical Park

The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park (NHP) is the first unit of the NPS to focus on the theme of conservation history and the CHANGING NATURE OF LAND STEWARDSHIP IN AMERICA. It is located in Woodstock, Vermont and first opened in June 1998. The site consists of the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Mansion (with adjacent residential buildings, gardens, and grounds), and the surrounding 555-acre forest land and pastures. It is also Vermont’s first national park.....

n 2.0 Background Information

2.1 Location

The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP is located in Woodstock, Vermont, approximately 10 miles from U.S. Route 89 and less than a half mile from the center of Woodstock and U.S. Route 4 (see Figure 1). Woodstock, located in eastern Vermont, was incorporated in 1772 and has been a resort town for over a century. Nearby locations include:

White River Junction, Vermont (nearest train and bus stations) (15 miles);

Killington, Vermont ski area (20 miles);

Burlington, Vermont (89 miles); and

Boston, Massachusetts (140 miles).

2.2 Administration and Classification

The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP was created in 1992, when the Rockefellers gifted the estate’s residential and forest lands to the people of the United States. The Park opened to the public six years later, in June 1998. It is the first unit of the NPS to focus on the theme of conservation history and the changing nature of land stewardship in America. It is also Vermont’s first national park.

2.3 Physical Description

Size and Facilities – The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP contains 555 acres. The NPS oversees:

The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller mansion, surrounding residential buildings, gardens, and grounds; and

The surrounding 555-acre forest land and pastures.

The Billings Farm and Museum is a separate facility that operates adjacent to and in partnership with the NPS Historical Park. It is located across Route 12 from the NPS site (see Figure 2). The Farm and Museum covers 88 acres (for a combined total of 643 acres of Farm and the NPS land).

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller Mansion – The 19th century Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller mansion contains an extensive art collection with American landscape paintings. It focuses on the conservation movement in the mid to late 1800s and the changing perceptions of the environment by the American public. The mansion is surrounded by other residential facilities, gardens, and landscaped grounds.

Forest – The adjoining forest has been actively managed for wood products, public recreation, aesthetics, education, and ecological values for over a century; it is one of the oldest planned and continuously managed woodlands in America and contains a 14-mile network of historic, unpaved carriage roads and trails (see Figure 3). The park represents several generations of conservationist thought and management. The site has undergone tremendous improvements in the last century to overcome the years of deforestation and overgrazing preceding it.

The NPS Visitor Center – The Visitor Center is situated in a building next to the Mansion. The building was formerly a carriage barn.

Billings Farm and Museum – The Billings Farm and Museum is adjacent to the NPS park; the two sites coordinate planning activities and share parking facilities. The Billings Farm and Museum Visitor Center, established in 1983, is privately owned and operated by the Woodstock Foundation, Inc. as an educational institution. The Farm and Museum share a visitor information station with the National Park. This station is located on Billings Farm property, across the street from the NPS site, and includes exhibits, audiovisual programs, and a museum shop. The Billings Farm is a living museum of rural Vermont life including a working dairy farm and information on farm and forestry operations. The 1890 Farm House, located on site, has been restored and furnished to match the 19th century original contains the family living quarters, business operations, creamery, and an ice house. For special events, a horse-drawn wagon is sometimes used to transport visitors around the Farm.

2.4 Mission and Goals of the National Historical Park

The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP was established by an Act of Congress on August 26, 1992. It is the only national park to focus on conservation history and the evolving nature of land stewardship in America.

Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller NHP and the Billings Farm and Museum work together in partnership to present historic and contemporary examples of conservation stewardship and explain the lives and contributions of: George Perkins Marsh, Frederick Billings, and his descendants, and Mary and Laurance S. Rockefeller. In addition, the Park also houses the Conservation Study Institute which collaborates with a variety of partners in Vermont and around the country to promote forestry conservation......

4.2 Public and Agency Coordination

The Park works in partnership with the Billings Farm and Museum to illustrate the lives of its founders and educate the public on the role of conservation and preservation.

Other coordination efforts involve:

Woodstock Foundation, Inc. – operates the Billings Farm and Museum;

Town of Woodstock – maintains some adjacent forest land (i.e., Billings Park, Faulkner Park, Mt. Tom);

Woodstock Ski Touring Center – operates cross-country skiing trails under an easement;

Conservation Study Institute – The NPS program created to enhance leadership in the area of conservation and to promote the park’s education and outreach initiatives on conservation stewardship; the Institute collaborates with academic (i.e., University of Vermont) and non-profit partners;

Vermont Land Trust – owns by bequest the King Farm, a historical site which is adjacent to the NPS site; and

U.S. Forest Service – conducts a collaborative forestry project with the park.

ENTIRE ARTICLE WITH PICTURES HERE:
http://www.fta.dot.gov/library/policy/fedland/fieldreports/NPS/Northeast/MarshBillings.html

It looks like the house and some of the grounds are held in trust (tax-free foundations were created to bankrupt this nation and merge us with communism/Russia) via the Woodstock Foundation.

FROM SENATOR PATRICK LEAHY'S WEBSITE:
http://leahy.senate.gov/issues/environment/marshbillings.html

"Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller - Vermont's First National Park

In 1992, I worked with Senator Jeffords to successfully pass a bill designating the Marsh-Billings complex in Woodstock as a national park. This 555-acre site is steeped in the tradition of private citizens acting out of their private concern for the land and its resources. George Perkins Marsh changed our perception of human relationship to nature. Marsh was one of the first individuals to successfully argue that resources were finite and he foresaw the devastating effects on the environment we are witnessing today. Frederick Billings, another proprietor of this magnificent site, was also at the forefront of the conservation movement. He used the principles developed by Marsh to restore forests on the property and to help frame Vermont's first long-term forest policy. Billings' granddaughter, Mary, and her husband, conservationist Laurence S. Rockefeller, donated the mansion and woodlands for the park. Marsh-Billings is the only national park in Vermont.

The Marsh-Billings National Historic Park consists of the Marsh-Billings mansion and an additional 113 acres in surrounding Woodstock. I was pleased to secure funding to help the Park Service renovate the historic, on-site Carriage House as their multipurpose office and visitor's facility. Programs at the park will focus on explaining changes in Vermont's landscape, the history of the conservation movement in America, and the conservation roles of Marsh, Billings and the Rockefellers.

The National Park Service and the Woodstock Foundation, a charitable entity established by the Rockefellers, have developed a General Management Plan for the Park that envisions a close working relationship between the Woodstock Foundation and the National Park Service. The Billings Farm and Museum, a project of the Woodstock Foundation, is located within the boundaries of the national park, but REMAINS PRIVATE PROPERTY. The Museum interprets farm and agriculture innovations of Frederick Billings and displays Vermont farm life in the 1890's.

The cooperative approach to operation of Marsh-Billings is unique in the National Park System and should serve as model for other, new historic parks that have an established community connection. With the limited resources of the National Park Service, these innovative partnerships will allow more of our national treasures to be protected." http://leahy.senate.gov/issues/environment/marshbillings.html

BE PROTECTED FROM WHOM AND FOR WHOM?

I am still trying to figure out WHO lives in the house, whether it is still owned by the Rockefellers, and if this is just one big scam to get the American taxpayers to fund their grounds maintanence and tourist trap.

More Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller links

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller
National Historical Park
http://www.nps.gov/mabi/

http://www.nps.gov/mabi/mabi/aboutthisplace/aboutthisplace.htm

http://www.nps.gov/mabi/mabi/aboutthisplace/didyouknow.htm

A State of Green

The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park is the first site dedicated to the ethics of conservation and land stewardship. http://www.npca.org/magazine/january_february/historic_highlights.asp

The Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park homepage: http://www.billingsfarm.org/

"The Billings Farm & Museum is a living museum of Vermont's rural past, as well as a working dairy farm. The farm dates back to 1871, when owner Frederick Billings, a lawyer, railroad entrepreneur, and philanthropist began importing cows from the Isle of Jersey. His farm prospered, and today, is still a working dairy, which operates with this nationally renowned farm life museum...."

"...Marsh-Billings National Historical Park was created by a gift of the Rockefeller family in 1992 and opened to the public in 1998. The property includes the historic home of George Perkins Marsh, Frederick Billings, and Mary French and Laurence Spelman Rockefeller. The property includes the grounds associated with the mansion and a managed forest of about 600 acres. As the home of successive generations of Americans concerned with the conservation of natural resources, the NHP is the first National Park dedicated to the idea of conservation. Adjacent to the park is the Billings Farm Museum, an 88-acre working farm and educational institution operated by a private, non-profit foundation...." http://webhost.bridgew.edu/jhayesboh/marsh-billings.htm

Marsh - Billings - Rockefeller National Historical Park - FEES: http://www.nationalparks.com/marsh_billings_rockefeller_national_historical_park/feespermits.htm

Notice of Availability; Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historical Park Final General Management Plan
[Federal Register: June 23, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 120)]
[Notices]
[Page 33502]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr23jn99-92]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1999/June/Day-23/i15912.htm

Notice of Availability; Record of Decision, Marsh-Billings- Rockefeller National Historical Park
[Federal Register: August 19, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 160)]
[Notices]
[Page 45274]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr19au99-89]

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/1999/August/Day-19/i21509.htm

MUST READ - Very interesting timeline of the parks:

1801-1900
http://www.nps.gov/mabi/mabi/history/timeline1801.htm

1900-2000
http://www.nps.gov/mabi/mabi/history/timeline1901.htm

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National Park Service: The First 75 Years
Biographical Vignettes

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
1874-1960

EXCERPT http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/rockefeller.htm

"Born in 1874. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was the fifth child and only son of John D. Rockefeller, the builder of Standard Oil. The elder Rockefeller became America's first billionaire...."

"...With his father, he participated in the creation of notable philanthropic institutions such as the Rockefeller Institute, the General Education Board, and the Rockefeller Foundation. He was the major contributor to the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a general purpose foundation. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is probably best remembered for the sponsorship of the construction of the Rockefeller Center in New York City, funding the restoration of Colonial Williamsburg, and DONATING LAND IN NEW YORK CITY FOR THE UNITED NATIONS COMPLEX.

In the field of conservation, Mr. ROCKEFELLER'S CONTRIBUTIONS TO NATIONAL PARKS ARE NO LESS IMPORTANT. HE PURCHASED AND DONATED THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF LAND TO PARKS USING FINANCES OR FOUNDATION GRANTS. For example. through the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial, HE DONATED $5 MILLION TO BUY PRIVATE LANDS IN THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS" [see: Yesterday's People: going, going, gone. (Wildlands Project becomes a reality in North Carolina) By Henry Lamb - http://www.citizenreviewonline.org/august_2001/wildlands_project_becomes_a_reality_in_north_carolina.htm ] "in the beautiful spirit of my mother." Acadia, Shenandoah, [ See Appalachian Trail of Tears - sixty years ago they were evicted from the Blue Ridge to make way for Shenandoah National Park http://www.usgennet.org/usa/va/shenan/trail_of_tears.htm ]
and Grand Teton national parks also received generous donations of land from Mr. Rockefeller. In the 1920s, when commercial loggers threatened to destroy large stands of sugar pines adjacent to Yosemite, he provided more than $1 million to save 15,000 acres of forest. Mr. Rockefeller financed the construction of museums in Mesa Verde, Grand Canyon, and Yellowstone [ see Whose Heritage and Whose Land? The Phyllis Schlafly Report, September 1997 - http://www.warroom.com/whose.htm ] national parks. In 1972 Congress honored his contributions by creating a memorial parkway between Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks, which bears his name. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., symbolizes the philanthropic spirit of many American families, foundations, and individuals that have been vital to the national parks.

From National Park Service: The First 75 Years

Laurance S. Rockefeller:
Catalyst for Conservation
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/hisnps/NPSBooks/winks.htm

"....Perhaps most significantly, Rockefeller served under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy as CHAIRMAN of the Outdoor Recreation Resources Review COMMISSION ORRRC), brilliantly orchestrating an assessment of the recreation and conservation NEED AND WANTS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE and the policies and programs required to meet those needs. THE REPORTS ISSUED BY THE COMMISSION represent a groundbreaking achievement that LAID THE FRAMEWORK FOR NEARLY ALL SIGNIFICANT ENVIRONMENTAL LEGISLATION OF THE FOLLOWING THREE DECADES....."

Partners and Alliances

"James M. Ridenour, former director of Indiana's Department of Natural Resources, became the thirteenth director of the National Park Service in 1989. From the outset, he stressed the importance of working with other government bodies, foundations, corporations, other private groups, and individuals to protect valuable lands in and outside the national park system....." http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/sontag7.htm

These people are called 'stakeholders', NGO's and other euphemisms for unelected busybodies who have no business depriving you of your private property rights, yet make it their reason for living.

Parks and People:
Preserving Our Past For The Future
http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/sontag6.htm

"...Natural resource management was restructured along ecological lines following a 1963 report by a committee of distinguished scientists chaired by A. Starker Leopold. "As a primary goal, we would recommend that THE BIOTIC ASSOCIATIONS WITHIN EACH PARK BE MAINTAINED, OR WHERE NECESSARY RECREATED, AS NEARLY AS POSSIBLE IN THE CONDITION THAT PREVAILED WHEN THE AREA WAS FIRST VISITED BY THE WHITE MAN," the Leopold Report declared. [See Wildlands Project Revealed http://www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org ]. "A national park should represent a vignette of primitive America." The natural roles of predators, once routinely killed, and wildfire, customarily suppressed, received special emphasis...."

"....The historic preservation activities of the Service expanded dramatically beyond the parks. Responding to the destructive effects of urban renewal, highway construction, and other federal projects during the postwar era, the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966 authorized the Service to maintain a comprehensive NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES. National Register properties — publicly or privately owned, locally or nationally significant — would receive special consideration in federal project planning and various forms of assistance to encourage their preservation...."

[In Rappahannock, VA recently, a woman who had huddled with an architect for about a year, to build a $400-500,000 house in the Historic Town of Little Washington, was turned down because her neighbors feared that the concrete siding, which looks like the real thing but doesn't need to be painted, would leave the house still standing 30 or 40 years down the road, 'after the others had fallen down'!]

**** Several new types of parks joined the system during the Hartzog years. Ozark NATIONAL SCENIC RIVERWAYS in Missouri, authorized by Congress in 1964, FORESHADOWED THE COMPREHENSIVE WILD AND SCENIC RIVERS ACT OF 1968, WHICH LED TO THE PRESERVATION OF OTHER FREE-FLOWING RIVERS AS NATIONAL PARKLANDS.

[***** See NPS - FRIEND OR FOE? posted by countrydummy http://www.newriverfriends.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/922428/posts?page=57 . Countrydummy, this is really dedicated to you. I coudn't sleep Sunday night thinking about this, and jumped up Monday morning to see what I could do.]

"...The National Trails System Act of 1968 gave the Service responsibility for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, running some 2,000 miles from Maine to Georgia..." [In reality, these trails start in Mexico and go to Canada. The plan

(the keyboard on the computer I had been using stopped printing for some reason. I will continue on this dinosaur for a bit, and then I will have to go save stuff and shut that computer down, before I hear it from the kids - it's their computer.)

Repeating from the pagagraph in the preceding post excerpted from http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/sontag6.htm :

"...The National Trails System Act of 1968 gave the Service responsibility for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, running some 2,000 miles from Maine to Georgia...." These trails actually start in Mexico and go into Canada, all part of the plan to break down the international borders. Part of the plan is for the Indigenous Peoples on this continent to have unhindered right of passage from one country to another. [Mentioned in the State Department plan entitled 'Summit of the Americas 2001' http://usinfo.state.gov/regional/ar/summit/act.htm ] Joint and reciprocal military operations have been planned for years, as well.]

"...William J. Whalen, superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, succeeded Everhardt in 1977. Although Whalen's background was largely in urban parks, he presided over the greatest wilderness expansion of the park system ever to take place. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 had allowed for up to 80 million acres of Alaskan lands to be reserved for national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and wild and scenic rivers. After lengthy debate among the competing interests, Congress adjourned in 1978 without resolving the fate of the lands in question. Using the 1906 Antiquities Act, President Jimmy Carter then set aside many of the proposed parklands as national monuments. The next Congress reconsidered the issue and finally passed the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act of 1980. ANILCA, as it was known, converted most of the national monuments to national parks and national preserves, the latter permitting sport hunting and trapping. The largest of the new areas, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, contains more than 8,300,000 acres, while the adjacent Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve encompasses nearly 4,900,000 acres. Together they cover an area larger than Vermont and New Hampshire combined and contain the continent's greatest array of glaciers and peaks above 16,000 feet. In all, ANILCA gave the park system over 47 million acres, more than doubling its size and insuring a spectacular wilderness legacy for future generations of Americans....."

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/sontag4.htm

",,,,If the park system were to benefit America's predominantly eastern population and maximize its support in Congress, it would have to expand eastward. Unfortunately, natural areas meeting national park standards were less common in the East, and MOST EASTERN LAND WAS IN PRIVATE OWNERSHIP. IN 1926 CONGRESS AUTHORIZED SHENANDOAH, GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, AND MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARKS IN THE APPALACHIAN REGION BUT REQUIRED THAT THEIR LANDS BE DONATED. WITH THE AID OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., AND OTHER PHILANTHROPISTS, THE STATES INVOLVED GRADUALLY ACQUIRED AND TURNED OVER [BY FORCE, IF NECESSARY] MOST OF THE LANDS NEEDED TO ESTABLISH THESE PARKS IN THE NEXT DECADE.

The Service's greatest opportunity in the East lay in another realm — that of history and historic sites. Congress had directed the War Department to preserve a number of historic battlefields, forts, and memorials there as national military parks and monuments. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Georgia and Tennessee was the first battlefield area so designated, in 1890, followed by Antietam National Battlefield Site and Shiloh, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg national military parks. Civil War veterans who had fought at these places were active in the campaigns for their preservation. Other War Department parks and monuments included Fort Marion (later renamed Castillo de San Marcos) in St. Augustine, Florida, Baltimore's Fort McHenry, Abraham Lincoln's Kentucky birthplace, and the Statue of Liberty...." [THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS NOW OWNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS, AN ARM, APPARENTLY, OF THE ROCKEFELLER FAMILY].

Additional info on the 'acquiring' of the land for the Shenandoah National Park:

(the keyboard on the computer I had been using stopped printing for some reason. I will continue on this dinosaur for a bit, and then I will have to go save stuff and shut that computer down, before I hear it from the kids - it's their computer.)

Repeating from the pagagraph in the preceding post excerpted from http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/sontag6.htm :

"...The National Trails System Act of 1968 gave the Service responsibility for the Appalachian National Scenic Trail, running some 2,000 miles from Maine to Georgia...." These trails actually start in Mexico and go into Canada, all part of the plan to break down the international borders. Part of the plan is for the Indigenous Peoples on this continent to have unhindered right of passage from one country to another. [Mentioned in the State Department plan entitled 'Summit of the Americas 2001 http://uinfo.state.gov/regional/ar/summit/act.htm ] Joint and reciprocal military operations have been planned for years, as well.]

"...William J. Whalen, superintendent of Golden Gate National Recreation Area, succeeded Everhardt in 1977. Although Whalen's background was largely in urban parks, he presided over the greatest wilderness expansion of the park system ever to take place. The Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act of 1971 had allowed for up to 80 million acres of Alaskan lands to be reserved for national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, and wild and scenic rivers. After lengthy debate among the competing interests, Congress adjourned in 1978 without resolving the fate of the lands in question. Using the 1906 Antiquities Act, President Jimmy Carter then set aside many of the proposed parklands as national monuments. The next Congress reconsidered the issue and finally passed the Alaska National Interests Lands Conservation Act of 1980. ANILCA, as it was known, converted most of the national monuments to national parks and national preserves, the latter permitting sport hunting and trapping. The largest of the new areas, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park, contains more than 8,300,000 acres, while the adjacent Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve encompasses nearly 4,900,000 acres. Together they cover an area larger than Vermont and New Hampshire combined and contain the continent's greatest array of glaciers and peaks above 16,000 feet. In all, ANILCA gave the park system over 47 million acres, more than doubling its size and insuring a spectacular wilderness legacy for future generations of Americans....."

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/sontag4.htm

",,,,If the park system were to benefit America's predominantly eastern population and maximize its support in Congress, it would have to expand eastward. Unfortunately, natural areas meeting national park standards were less common in the East, and MOST EASTERN LAND WAS IN PRIVATE OWNERSHIP. IN 1926 CONGRESS AUTHORIZED SHENANDOAH, GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS, AND MAMMOTH CAVE NATIONAL PARKS IN THE APPALACHIAN REGION BUT REQUIRED THAT THEIR LANDS BE DONATED. WITH THE AID OF JOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., AND OTHER PHILANTHROPISTS, THE STATES INVOLVED GRADUALLY ACQUIRED AND TURNED OVER [BY FORCE, IF NECESSARY] MOST OF THE LANDS NEEDED TO ESTABLISH THESE PARKS IN THE NEXT DECADE.

The Service's greatest opportunity in the East lay in another realm — that of history and historic sites. Congress had directed the War Department to preserve a number of historic battlefields, forts, and memorials there as national military parks and monuments. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park in Georgia and Tennessee was the first battlefield area so designated, in 1890, followed by Antietam National Battlefield Site and Shiloh, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg national military parks. Civil War veterans who had fought at these places were active in the campaigns for their preservation. Other War Department parks and monuments included Fort Marion (later renamed Castillo de San Marcos) in St. Augustine, Florida, Baltimore's Fort McHenry, Abraham Lincoln's Kentucky birthplace, and the Statue of Liberty...." [THE STATUE OF LIBERTY IS NOW OWNED BY THE UNITED NATIONS, AN ARM, APPARENTLY, OF THE ROCKEFELLER FAMILY].

Additional info on the 'acquiring' of the land for the Shenandoah National Park:

ANGER IN APPALACHIA
http://www.landrights.org/OCS/Shenandoah.WashPost.htm

Sorry about that! Don't ask me how it happened. I SAID it was a dinosaur.

"Along with the influx of parks, the Service received another mission as Roosevelt launched his New Deal: helping to relieve the Great Depression [caused by Roosevelt and the international bankers] then gripping the nation. Under Service supervision, the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) would employ thousands of jobless young men in a wide range of conservation, rehabilitation, and construction projects in both the national and state parks. At the program's peak in 1935, the Service over saw 600 CCC camps, 118 of them in national parklands and 482 in state parks, staffed by some 120,000 enrollees and 6,000 professional supervisors.

In addition to its many park improvements, the CCC had a lasting effect on Service personnel and organization. Many of the professionals hired under its auspices remained on the rolls as career employees. The Service's now-familiar regional structure evolved in 1937 from regional offices established to coordinate the CCC in the state parks. The Southwest Regional Office Building in Santa Fe, New Mexico, an outstanding Spanish-pueblo-revival structure, was completed in 1939 with the aid of CCC craftsmen.

The Service also became involved with areas intended primarily for mass recreation during the 1930s. Begun as depression relief projects, the Blue Ridge Parkway between Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains national parks and the Natchez Trace Parkway between Nashville, Tennessee, and Natchez, Mississippi, were designed for scenic recreational motoring. In 1936, under an agreement with the Bureau of Reclamation, the Service assumed responsibility for recreational development and activity at the vast reservoir created by Hoover Dam. Lake Mead National Recreation Area, as it was later titled, was the first of several reservoir areas in the park system. Cape Hatteras National Seashore, the first of several seashore and lakeshore areas, was authorized by Congress in 1937...."

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/sontag/sontag5.htm

This idea of turning back the country to the grizzlies and wolves calls for a very high degree of population reduction. Do a google search on the Rockefellers and the medical establishment and the Rockefellers and population control. This family is a menace to our freedoms, and for Jay Rockefeller to be sitting on the committee to investigate the Nature Conservancy is obviously a case of the fox watching the chicken coop. Is there anyone left in that body other than Ron Paul who could do a proper investigation? Maybe it's time for SOMEONE to appoint a citizen's commision to investigate. What works for the goose, should work for the gander.

What's it all about,,,,,

The Federal Reserve and the National Debt, money that was created out of thin air by some of the world's richest and most morally bankrupt families, and charged to the American people at compounded interest - usury - God hates it!!

Be sure to read:

Hage Report
... The revealing story of a rancher and the national debt Investigative Documentary
By David Morgan, The Asheville Tribune Case History: Hage v. United States ... http://www.ashevilletribune.com/hage1.htm