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State acts to gain land near Kartchner Arizona Daily Star 01.11.02 To block construction of a $40 million resort near Kartchner Caverns, Arizona State Parks has taken the first step toward condemning 160 acres of private land. The state filed a complaint in a Bisbee court last week so it could start the lengthy process of acquiring the property on the park's northern edge. The legal maneuver - which was expected - was spurred by a developer's plan to build a luxury spa and hotel next to the crown jewel of the Arizona State Parks system. Park officials and ...

I know I have not been on for awhile. Many of you have written to me and asked what is going on. After Jarbidge in July 2000 I moved up to Idaho to be closer to my daughter. As many of you know I am disabled. Since I moved here I have been having a major nightmare with doctors. Without boring you with details, I am ready to quit the whole lot of them. But I have a ball and chain around my neck, social security disability, and long term disability from my employer. I am not looking for ...

The following message is from the green side as I am sure you can tell. Hey, it is a toll free number. Let's do our part, change the message to our message and use their number and call in. When we have the line in use, they cannot. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- CALL SECRETARY VENEMAN THIS FRIDAY!! URGE HER TO STAND WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND IMPLEMENT THE ROADLESS RULE! On the 1-year anniversary of the roadless rule, we are working to flood the phone lines of Agriculture Secretary Veneman to urge her to keep her promise to uphold the rule. ...

SPLC: 'Teaching Tolerance' Doesn't Apply to Land Rights A Response by J.J. Johnson: 01.10.02 They're at it again. The 'court jesters' of the left, the Southern Poverty Law Center, has attempted to spin yet another serious political issue into left-wing propaganda. In their winter edition of the Intelligence Report, The Klamath Basin issue has become their latest target. In their ongoing demagoguery, they attempt to rise once again from the ashes, using partial information and scare tactics to further their cause, while constantly omitting information that shows their true colors. In their article "Conflict in Klamath" they begin with ...

January 08, 2002 Feds help fund green activists By JEFFRY MULLINS, Associate Editor HERNDON, Va. - Environmental groups that promote their own political agenda are among the recipients of hundreds of millions of dollars in grants handed out each year by federal agencies, according to a Virginia-based legal foundation. Landmark Legal Foundation has received documentation of grant awards from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency dating back to 1993. "We've learned that approximately half of the EPA's budget goes toward doling out grants," said Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark. "Some of that is required by statute, and some of ...

January 08, 2002 Trout Unlimited among groups receiving grants By JEFFRY MULLINS, Associate Editor Trout Unlimited is one of the special interest groups identified in a Landmark Legal Foundation probe as a recipient of federal grants. Here in Elko County, the group is accused of having its own political agenda. Its mission is to "conserve, protect and restore North America's trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds." The group was instrumental in getting the bull trout listed as a threatened species by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, effectively blocking repairs on Jarbidge's South Canyon Road. According to Landmark, ...

<p>California's magnificent redwoods appear to be susceptible to the same deadly disease that has infected oak woodlands along the Central Coast, preliminary testing shows.</p> <p>The test results, if confirmed in laboratory experiments, could prove economically, environmentally and spiritually ruinous for a state that is linked in the minds of people throughout the world with the giant trees.</p>

Mining Product may Save Millions of Barrels of Oil Sierra Times : 01.09.02 Spokane, Washington - Mark Rey, Department of Agriculture Undersecretary for the Environment and Minerals, in a speech before the Northwest Mining Association said that the policy of the Forest Service would be more pro-active toward domestic exploration and the orderly development of energy and mineral resources on National Forest lands. Rey also stated that existing environmental regulations would be strictly applied to the orderly development of mineral resources. When asked if minerals would be given equal importance with other National Forest resources as under the previous ...

AK: Tongass, the healthiest forest in North America John Sandor: 01.10.02 As federal judge James Singleton ponders yet another injunction restricting logging in the Tongass, it's an appropriate time to put things into perspective. At issue this time around are 19 tracks of timber proposed for harvest by the U.S. Forest Service in remote areas of the Tongass Singleton issued a temporary injunction last March that shut down logging in the Tongass for almost two months. He exercised a very loose and subjective interpretation of the law, when he concluded that the U.S. Forest Service neglected to consider some ...

After years of playing offense, Greenpeace is now finding itself on the defensive. In addition to pulling much of the anti-Bush administration propaganda from its website, the group has failed to explain its rationale for publicizing sensitive information on biological and chemical toxins stored at thousands of U.S. industrial sites &#151; an exercise in fear-mongering that many of the group's critics saw as an engraved invitation to terrorists. And Greenpeace is suddenly getting the silent treatment from some erstwhile allies, who have been alienated by the organization's unwillingness to recognize the potentially adverse consequences of its actions. Greenpeace poses as ...

A money-soaked battle is bubbling up along the Malibu coastline, pitting old-time liberals like David Geffen, Barbara Streisand, and Jeffrey Katzenberg against, well, everyone else. The elite property owners of Malibu, who wouldn't be out of place at an Al Gore fundraiser in Hollywood, have suddenly become the forceful defenders of property rights &#151; their property rights, that is &#151; along the beautiful Southern California coastline. And let me tell you, it's fun to watch. At issue is public access to the sand and surf. But how does the suntan crowd get to the sand if those living the life ...

<p>WASHINGTON -- In a case that could curb environmental regulation, the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday weighed whether the federal government must compensate hundreds of land owners in Lake Tahoe, Nev., who have waited decades for approval to build lakeside homes.</p>

Crapo Spokesman Defends 'CARA' Land Grab! Idaho Senator Mike Crapo is still in hiding, refusing to explain why he cosponsored and endorsed bill number S. 990, the "Son of CARA." S. 990 spends up to $600 million per year for two purposes: First, to condemn private property, and Second, to hand out grant money to leftwing environmental and animal rights groups. S. 990 is nicknamed "Son of CARA" because it is a smaller version of a larger land grab bill called HR 701 - CARA - the Conservation and Reinvestment Act. CARA has been nicknamed the "Condemnation and Relocation ...

SUPREME COURT HEARS SMART GROWTH SUIT WASHINGTON, DC, January 7, 2002 (ENS) - The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments today in the case of Tahoe Sierra Preservation Council vs. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA). The American Planning Association (APA) says the primary issue before the court is whether or not a temporary moratorium on land development constitutes a taking of property under the U.S. Constitution. The Tahoe Sierra Preservation Council, a nonprofit property rights advocacy organization representing some business and development interests in the area, challenged a temporary development ban ordered by TRPA to allow time for the study ...

Scams, Scalawags, and an all-too-gullible Public...O.K. FReepers, lurkers, & trolls-- here's an offshoot from the DUBOB storiesDUBOB 2-- more tales from The Dark Underbelly of the Beast-- thread II -The Dark Underbelly of the Beast- Stories the Media won't Discuss...--which might be subtitled "Famous Frauds Foisted off on America.Again, feel free to comment, opinionate, and add your favorites and links....Let the Games begin! The Great Asbestos Caper ( an early "for the sake of 'our' children" scare ) -The Asbestos Rip-Off--By Michael Fumento--Copyright 1989 by The American Spectator Coming soon to a school or office near you: a life-saving ...

The Reality of 'Global Warming' Reprinted from NewsMax.com The Reality of 'Global Warming' Rep. Dana RohrabacherWednesday, June 13, 2001 Editor's note: This is text of a House speech Tuesday night by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif. Mr. Speaker, I will be discussing global warming tonight, especially considering that President Bush has come under severe attack for his refusal to bow before the pressure of a very well-organized effort that they are trying to pressure him to accept the idea that the world is in peril because it is becoming more and more warm because of industrialization. It is vital that ...

Experts are bracing for widespread attacks this summer on genetically engineered crops and research facilities as anti-biotech activists promise a record year of violence. At least 30 incidents of anti-biotech sabotage have occurred in the last year. And that number is likely to jump as activists race to destroy more crops before the summer growing season draws to a close. Just Wednesday, vandals struck a research farm operated by the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory on Long Island, N.Y. Cold Spring Harbor is a leading genetics research laboratory, headed by James D. Watson, one of co-discoverers of the structure of DNA. ...

While the remains of the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York and Washington, DC's Pentagon are "ground zero" for the horrible destruction wrought by foreign terrorists, the nation's forests, research labs, resorts and housing developments have long been "ground zero" for domestic environmentally-driven "ecoterrorists." There may be diabolical links between the two forces. There is a strong possibility that Animal Liberation Front (ALF) terrorists have come into possession of Anthrax as the result of having invaded laboratories that have been researching the disease. This certainly merits investigation as a source for the Anthrax attacks. The fact ...

There is no shame in believing that those among the Left who most profess their "caring", for animals, the environment, and other non-human "causes" are simply anti-people.This summer, "environmentalists" defended the fruits of their advocacy for more sharks, necessitating expansion of sharks' search for food in areas frequented by (and thus increasingly feeding upon) humans, as a legitimate regulatory goal. That was the most recent exhibit of their preferences, until-September 11.Certain "caring" types have since failed to contain their true passions. For example, the Earth Island Institute (EII) editorializing on their website site that the September 11 victims essentially got ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Environmental radicals have claimed responsibility for at least five acts of sabotage over the past two months, showing they are not going to let the nation's terrorism scare stand in their way. Since Sept. 11, they've set fire to a maintenance building at a primate research facility in New Mexico, released minks from an Iowa fur farm twice within a week and firebombed a federal corral for wild horses in Nevada. The current spree started on Sept. 8, when militants torched a McDonald's restaurant in Tucson, Ariz. Four of the five actions have been claimed by ...