Posted on 05/15/2010 7:03:02 AM PDT by Outside da Box
HELENA, Mont. — Recently released documents show the Obama administration was getting ideas from environmental groups about setting aside millions of acres in the West, drawing the ire of land users who said discussions were being developed behind their back.
In the documents — most of which are e-mail messages — the environmental groups suggest various ways to protect land, such as by creating national monuments, buying private land or through conservation easements.
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Ecotards are not out to “protect land” but to undermine capitalism.
Watermelons.
...”buying private land”....this means the Feds take your land and then give you pennies on the dollar for it.
And a conservation easement is for EVER! Half the U.P. has some sort of conservation easement on it. It restricts the use of the land in one way or another. It is like taking a stick or three from your bundle of rights. Very popular with government agencies and the environmental whacko’s.
Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument is a prime example.
Bump.
Time for another Sagebrush Rebellion.
Bubba locked up the clean coal Staircase Monument in Utah for the enviro wackos.
That meant a double boost for him. The kooks here loved it and the Riady’s of Indonesia loved it too. They sell clean coal.
I can’t access the whole article, does someone else have a different link?
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