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Supreme Court weighs review of Army Corps’ jurisdiction decisions

Posted on March 9, 2015 Written by

The Supreme Court may decide as soon as Mon­day to review a high-pro­­file case on whether an Army Corps of Engi­neers deter­mi­na­tion that prop­er­ty qual­i­fies for Clean Water Act pro­tec­tions can be chal­lenged in court. In Kent Recy­cling Ser­vices LLC v. Army Corps of Engi­neers, the jus­tices are pre­sent­ed with the ques­tion of whether a corps […]

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

Wildlife agencies plan to restore grizzlies in Washington

Posted on March 5, 2015 Written by

EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Ser­vice, the Nation­al Park Ser­vice and Wash­ing­ton state agen­cies are plan­ning to restore griz­zly bears to the North Cas­cades. The Everett Dai­ly Her­ald reports the agen­cies plan to hold pub­lic meet­ings next month in six cities. The input will help the agen­cies decide how to bring […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Depopulation, Property Rights, Wildlands Network

Ecosystems are Like the Tides

Posted on February 13, 2015 Written by

When I entered the US Navy in 1963 I took an exten­sive class in Nav­i­ga­tion.  One of the major sub­jects with­in the class was, “Tides”. In addi­tion to “high tide” and “low tide”; and spring tides and neap tides, our instruc­tor men­tioned a par­tic­u­lar con­cept that was both pecu­liar to those times and a likely […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Property Rights, Wildlands Network

Superior Court (Alameda County) Rules in Favor of ABAG and One Bay Area

Posted on February 12, 2015 Written by

Lit­i­ga­tion Seeks to Pro­tect the Amer­i­can Form of Gov­ern­ment In a result ori­ent­ed deci­sion, Alame­da Coun­ty Supe­ri­or Court Judge Eve­lio Gril­lo ruled against Free­dom Advo­cates and oth­ers in the war over pro­tect­ing Cities and Coun­ties from a trans­for­ma­tion of local gov­ern­ment (One Bay Area). The new form of gov­ern­ment in the San Fran­cis­co Bay Area […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Free Market Economics, New World Order, Police State, Property Rights, Public-Private Partnerships, Regionalism, Smart Growth, Surveillance, Sustainability, Technocracy, Transportation, Water Rights, Wildlands Network

Wolf Lessons from North Carolina

Posted on February 5, 2015 Written by

Last Fri­day, 30 Jan­u­ary, I wrote a piece, Kudos to North Car­oli­na and Her Wolves that Nev­er Were, com­pli­ment­ing the recent suc­cess of some men in North Car­oli­na regard­ing how to stand up to the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment and the Endan­gered Species Act.  This involves “red” wolves, an envi­able (to most of us) State Wildlife Agency […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Property Rights, Wildlands Network

Watch Out for That Puddle, Soon It Could Be Federally Regulated

Posted on February 3, 2015 Written by

FA Note:  This Op-Ed appeared in the Wall Street Jour­nal Decem­ber 7, 2014. The authors are Reed Hop­per and Todd Gaziano, with Pacif­ic Legal Foun­da­tion.  The EPA wants to rede­fine ‘the waters of the Unit­ed States’ to mean vir­tu­al­ly any wet spot in the coun­try. Ear­li­er this year the Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency and Army Corps […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Natural Resources, Property Rights, Water Rights, Wildlands Network

“They Never”, “They Always”

Posted on February 1, 2015 Written by

A pack of “five to six” coy­otes just killed a full grown horse, iron­i­cal­ly owned by the Coun­ty Sheriff’s Depart­ment, in a pad­dock between Detroit and Flint, Michi­gan.  The local “wildlife tech­ni­cian” said he “can count on zero fin­gers the num­bers of times coy­otes have tak­en down a large ani­mal”.  He also said, “If you […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Property Rights, Wildlands Network

Kudos to North Carolina and Her Wolves that Never Were

Posted on January 31, 2015 Written by

As some­one with a long involve­ment in US and Euro­pean wolf deba­cles of the past three-plus decades, it is with admi­ra­tion and a wry sense of amuse­ment that I have fol­lowed the sor­did his­to­ry of fed­er­al red wolf impo­si­tions on the good peo­ple of North Car­oli­na.  I admire what you are doing about “wolves” and […]

Filed Under: Agenda 21, Wildlands Network