West Virginia Landowners fight viewshed plan

Landowner Magazine, Vol. 24, No. 5 ^ | March11, 2002 | Jill Carson

[countrydummy]

Gosh, we are trying so dang hard! This has been the fight of my life, and I try to educate and help others such as the quarry fight, the Appalachian trail fight in NC, were the NPS "has to expand" the trail....they do not! We are all in these fights together, for the land we save may well be our own! The thing that gets me the most by all of these "preservationists" is that they want to save these resources for future generations! Who the heck are we and our children? Whose heritages are they stealing? These land have been held for over 200 years! Mine as well as most of all the other landgrabs I am involved in! Take the Darby Refuge for example! Same thing all over. Those lands there were also land grants as payment to the Revolutionary War Vets! Now the Fish and Wild Life and others are trying to steal it as well!

[countrydummy]

It sure is sickening!

[backhoe]

You can reach & annoy a whole lot of people with those-- that "conservative megalinks" reaches state-level reps, and a lot of others, rather easily.

I have fought against eminent domain since young adulthood. It is legalized theft.

[countrydummy]

I sure will make good use of the links! I really do appreciate it so much. You are so right, eminent domain is stealing!

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[ao98]

I don't know.

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[AuntB]

Oh, it never stops. Of all the insidious enviro tricks, the "viewshed" is the most pitiful! I sat next to a card carrying Nature conservancy fellow at a town hall meeting with Smith/Wyden last year. I explained "viewsheds" to him. He told me I was paranoid and listening to crazy people. I won't tell you what I told him then. :<)

[TooBusy]

BTTT

[countrydummy]

Don't it make you want to scream! People like you just described don't have a clue, or on the other side to begin with, and would love to belittle the ones that are the NIMBY's......a term I wear so proudly! Why? Because all that I thought I knew about protecting the environment (the land owners being the best stewards) was all of a sudden changed---manipulated into a force against all I thought I knew! That being that the landowners were the best stewards---because I think this is the case, I was labled a NIMBY---go figure! If the shoe fits, then yes, not in my backyard nor the other countless Americans that have already lost their homes and heritages to such utter BS! Sorry AuntB, I got on a roll!

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[farmfriend]

West Virginia State Grange
Founded in 1867, the Grange is the oldest general farm and public policy organization in the United States.

I'm sure they like to fight battles as well as I do. Contact them for help.

[farmfriend]

Thanks for the ping on this.

[countrydummy]

Thanks for the link! We can use all the help we can get! There are several other parts of the state of WV that is under full attack using different issues, but all are for the same end game-----take or control all the land! I had hoped to have a land rights rally on the 7th of May, but having seeing what it takes to do a rally, I and the other members/supporters of the Sisters of the River feel we would be better to wait and then it will be on a national scale. There are several landrights organizations behind us, to numerous to put into this post, but also Tom Deweese with American Policy Center------hopefully the rally will be held in July or August and it will be good!!

[countrydummy]

I need to make a serious correction to the article that started this post (besides learning how not to double post :-)) and that is to correct the spelling of the author. Her name is Jill Carlson, not Carson! I so apologize for that!

[buckalfa]

Please describe the proposed route of the New River Parkway. Little if any mention of this project has been mentioned in hysterical( oh-excuse me!) I mean historical Lewisburg. Such a project would be dead on arrival in Greenbrier County thanks to the strong arm influence of the Greenbrier Hotel (CSX)!

[countrydummy]

It has been proposed to come off I-64 Sandstone exit, follow existing st. rt. 26 to Hinton on the west side (Raleigh County). It was all originally intended to "lie gently on the land and the landowners"----meaning leaving us alone....till the strong arm of the federal government got involved---aka, the NPS, US Fish and Wildlife, etc.of which resulted in a Memoradumn of Understanding (that violates due process, and I must add was proven..one of the 'hold-ups stopping this land grab attempt) that these federal agencies had to have the lands of us landowners that have been here for 200 years, in order to "protect" it against "potential" development! This attempt is nothing but an attempt to own all the land from Hinton to Fayette Station! Remember what happened to the once town of Thurmond, WV??? Yeah, the NPS owns it! As they will with Hinton if they get their way.

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