Posted on 06/19/2007 3:29:21 AM PDT by WKB
MPL, I received this mail from Flying Elvis about the Vicksburg National Civil War Memorial Park.
If you would like to comment on the future of the park there is a link in the first post.
Hello WKB,
Vicksburg National Military Park is undergoing a review to determine the future of preservation in the park. Environmentalists are mobilizing to turn it into a nature preserve, thus ignoring the park’s charter that it be restored to its 1863 vistas.
They are making all kinds of wild claims, from migratory birds nesting in the park, to saying that the trees are old growth, which is an outright lie. (The trees in the park were planted in the 1930s to control erosion.)
We have now discovered that natural grasses are better for that function in the park, but the tree huggers want it to be a nature park instead of a place for remembering the heroes of the Civil War.
Please pass this link to members of the Mississippi Ping list so that we can counterbalance the mobilization of the left.
Flying Elvis
Mississippi ping
The tree-hugger types are also the types who say “war never solves anything”. Sounds like they want to cover up evidence of a war that really did solve something.
The people of Mississippi have got to be smarter than that.
Dixie Ping
I love those people who tell us war never solved anything. They can say that because we won the wars that were critical for our freedom.
LLS
I’m betting the enviro-nuts that are mentioned in this story aren’t originally from Mississippi.
It’s different here in No. VA. The enviros and Civil War preservationists have to band together against developers. Thank God for them we still have what’s left of the Bull Run battlefield. There are still big fights ahead for Fredricksburg, the Wilderness, and Brandy Station.
They tried to stop logging on private property near my parents. They brought in an expert to testify in court about how it would be unconscienable to destroy all of the “virgin timber”. That concept gained traction in court until someone pointed out that everyone in the surrounding area knew that it had been timbered no less than 4 times in the last century.
If I perjured myself in court like that, I would get thrown in jail.
Here in the upper Midwest we’ve had experience with this.
Expect the eco-fascists to make wild claims.
They will lie and attempt to ignore and ultimately nullify the park’s original charter.
Their ultimate goal will be to ban people from the park.
I recommend you contact the people here:
They’ve already fought a similar battle, can give you advice and strategies to fight the eco-fascists and may save you time and money in researching the various legal paths you’ll need to take.
Go here for a synopsis of IRBA:
http://www.isleroyale.org/about/history.html
Yeah, here in Gettysburg, NPS is undertaking a massive effort to restore the battlefield to its 1863 appearance, which includes clearing some 500 acres of second and third growth trees. Local envirowackos tired to put up some resistance but got no where fast since NPS had laid it outs plans and secured Congressional authorization ten years ago.
The Manassas Battlefield is going through a similar fight, as they want to cut down some trees that have grown over some of the battle sight lines.
ping. Maybe you could mobilize some of your re-enactment folks on this one.
I like your idea!
LLS
they seem to be confused between a national park
and a national MILITARY park
maybe we could invite them for a re-enactment
when Porter’s union gunboats bombed civilians in downtown Vicksburg for 47 days
or when land based mortars did the same
that would teach those plant worshippers a thing or two....
you can’t trust folks who worship mother nature....masochists they are....she is one meanassed diety.....I can’t say I’ve seen her in person since those butter ads
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