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Anti Agenda 21 Platform

Posted on May 27, 2015 Written by

FA Note:  The fol­low­ing Alame­da Coun­ty Repub­li­can Par­ty Plat­form ban­ning Agen­da 21 was draft­ed by Free­dom Advo­cates and is intend­ed for use by Demo­c­rat and Repub­li­can Cen­tral Com­mit­tees around the coun­try. Is your county’s polit­i­cal activism com­mit­ted to Amer­i­ca or to polit­i­cal glob­al­ism? Democ­rats and Repub­li­cans most like­ly will answer that ques­tion sim­i­lar­ly! Both parties […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Collectivism/Communism/Marxism, Family Autonomy, Federalism/State Sovereignty, Free Market Economics, ICLEI, New World Order, Property Rights, Regionalism, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Transportation, Wildlands Network Tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Pentagon directive authorizes military forces against civilians — Was considered for use in Bundy standoff

Posted on May 24, 2015 Written by

A 2010 Pen­ta­gon direc­tive on mil­i­tary sup­port to civil­ian author­i­ties details what crit­ics say is a trou­bling pol­i­cy that envi­sions the Oba­ma administration’s poten­tial use of mil­i­tary force against Amer­i­cans. The direc­tive con­tains non­con­tro­ver­sial pro­vi­sions on sup­port to civil­ian fire and emer­gency ser­vices, spe­cial events and the domes­tic use of the Army Corps of Engineers. […]

Filed Under: Collectivism/Communism/Marxism, Federalism/State Sovereignty, Natural Resources, Police State, Property Rights, Water Rights, Wildlands Network

NPS Ecological Mismanagement at Point Reyes: By Design?

Posted on May 8, 2015 Written by

The Nation­al Park Ser­vice (NPS) was able to shut down Drakes Bay Oys­ter Com­pa­ny at Point Reyes Nation­al Seashore by fal­si­fy­ing data about envi­ron­men­tal dam­age it claimed the oys­ter com­pa­ny caused. Now NPS is tar­get­ing ranch­ers for removal from Point Reyes. Here is the lat­est update on the NPS cam­paign. The op-ed below by Sarah Rolph […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Property Rights, Wildlands Network

Will A Four-Decade Old Law Limit Obama’s Land Powers?

Posted on May 1, 2015 Written by

A “Sage­brush Rebel­lion” like the one that pro­pelled Ronald Rea­gan (“Count me in as a [sage­brush] rebel.”) into the Oval Office is mak­ing nation­al news because Pres­i­dent Oba­ma gov­erns like Pres­i­dent Carter.  Obama’s Inte­ri­or Sec­re­tary, for exam­ple, threat­ens more uni­lat­er­al land lock­up decrees if west­ern­ers do not embrace leg­is­la­tion putting vast areas off-lim­its to “mul­ti­ple […]

Filed Under: Natural Resources, Property Rights, Water Rights, Wildlands Network

Oyster Farmer: ‘We Are Terrified’ Of The Government

Posted on April 30, 2015 Written by

Drakes Bay Oys­ter Com­pa­ny oper­at­ed in Point Reyes for decades until Nation­al Park Ser­vice offi­cials used fal­si­fied data to force Kevin Lunny’s fam­i­­ly-run oys­ter farm to shut down. The expe­ri­ence has left its mark on Lun­ny: “We are ter­ri­fied,” he told law­mak­ers dur­ing a hear­ing Thurs­day. “Let me be clear, we did not fail as […]

Filed Under: Agriculture, Natural Resources, Property Rights, Wildlands Network

A Modern Paul Revere

Posted on April 29, 2015 Written by

The fol­low­ing is a recent let­ter from Mr. Jett Fere­bee of North Car­oli­na to the Sec­re­tary of the Inte­ri­or (Jew­ell) and the Direc­tor of the US Fish & Wildlife Ser­vice (Ashe).   Mr. Fere­bee and his asso­ciates in North Car­oli­na have formed an active coali­tion of politi­cians and bureau­crats bent on expos­ing the law­less­ness of […]

Filed Under: Depopulation, Family Autonomy, Property Rights, Wildlands Network

Armed Oregon Protesters Gather at Bureau of Land Management Office Over Mine Dispute, Report Says

Posted on April 25, 2015 Written by

FA Note — Courts have long rec­og­nized the Act of July 26, 1866, and May 10, 1872 as amend­ed, where­by Con­gress abdi­cat­ed its author­i­ty and juris­dic­tion over the min­er­al estate, grant­i­ng it as an absolute gift with­out con­di­tion or lim­i­ta­tion to all cit­i­zens. More than 100 demon­stra­tors, some of them armed, report­ed­ly sur­round­ed the Bureau […]

Filed Under: Natural Resources, Property Rights, Wildlands Network

Moose Calf Mystery Solved: Too Many Wolves

Posted on April 19, 2015 Written by

Mech study shows a steep increase in wolf num­bers coin­cid­ed with a sharp decline in moose calf sur­vival Some­times, no mat­ter how hard you try to avoid it, the answer to your ques­tion is star­ing you in the face. And it appears that could well be the case as it relates to the declin­ing moose […]

Filed Under: Wildlands Network