CATTLEMEN PROD FOREST SERVICE: Federal land-use policies to come under review, again

The San Francisco Chronicle ^ | July 5, 2002 | By Glen Martin, Chronicle Environment Writer

[madfly]

Sierra National Forest -- Everything old is new again for California's national forests, where Bush administration officials have signaled a move away from the conservation-based policies of the Clinton administration to the ""multiple use'' concept that characterized U.S. Forest Service policy in earlier decades.

[madfly]

bttt

[blackie]

Stop the attacks by the wacko, extreme left-wing, enviro-nazis terrorist's on our Freedoms !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Molon Labe !!

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source

Tides Foundation & Tides Center

Finances

Finances for tax year 2000
Income		$144,823,348.00
Expenditures		$109,984,211.00
End-Of-Year Net Worth		$177,153,419.00
Tax Status		501(c)3

Selected Grants
	Donor		Albert A. List Foundation
	Grant		$9,000.00 in 1998
	Source		IRS Form 990 or 990-PF
	Details		Activist Training. Vallecitos Mountain Refuge
	Donor		John Merck Fund
	Grant		$28,500.00 in 1995
	Source		The Foundation Center
	Details		For media and public education campaigns for reports about pesticides and food safety, including shoppers' guide highlighting safer alternatives to produce with greatest risk of toxic residues.
	Donor		Rockefeller Foundation
	Grant		$50,000.00 in 2000
	Source		Foundation Annual Report
	Details		for its work on intellectual property issues in the development of agricultural biotechnology
	Donor		Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation
	Grant		$25,000.00 in 1993
	Source		The Foundation Center
	Details		To organise and train college and high school students to be environmental activists on their campuses and in their communities.
	Donor		John Merck Fund
	Grant		$245,000.00 in 1999
	Source		The Foundation Center
	Details		For continued support for Environmental Media Service's programs regarding genetically engineered foods and Environmental Working Group's media campaign for Internet site about pesticides in the American diet
	Donor		Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund
	Grant		$60,000.00 in 2000
	Source		The Foundation Center
	Details		For the Center for Ethics and Toxic Substances -- To raise awareness of risks posed by biotechnology

Top Funders and Grantees
	Funding From Foundations & Corporations		Total Donated		Time Frame
	Pew Charitable Trusts		$98,098,400.00		1990 - 2002
	Ford Foundation		$24,636,869.00		1989 - 2002
	California Endowment		$20,450,139.00		1997 - 2000
	W. Alton Jones Foundation		$6,634,638.00		1988 - 2000
	John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation		$5,883,796.00		1990 - 2000
	Open Society Institute		$5,826,050.00		1997 - 2002
	Florence & John Schumann Foundation		$5,407,500.00		1992 - 1998
	David & Lucile Packard Foundation		$5,206,959.00		1988 - 2001
	William & Flora Hewlett Foundation		$4,855,000.00		1990 - 2000
	Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund		$4,518,000.00		1991 - 2000
	Charles Stewart Mott Foundation		$4,447,450.00		1990 - 2002
	James Irvine Foundation		$4,278,500.00		1993 - 2002
	Howard Heinz Endowment		$3,455,000.00		1995 - 2000
	U.S. Environmental Protection Agency		$3,262,095.00		1993 - 2001
	Nathan Cummings Foundation		$3,209,075.00		1991 - 2000
	Rockefeller Foundation		$2,685,670.00		1993 - 2000
	Joyce Foundation		$2,661,260.00		1988 - 2000
	A Territory Resource Foundation		$2,500,000.00		2000 - 2000
	W. K. Kellogg Foundation		$2,495,867.00		1991 - 2001
	Carnegie Corporation of New York		$2,262,000.00		1992 - 2002
	Funding From Other Activist Organizations
	Western Organization of Resource Councils		$6,000.00		1999 - 1999
	Environmental Defense		$1,000.00		1999 - 1999
	Wilderness Society		$690.00		1997 - 1997
	Grants To Other Activist Organizations
	Environmental Working Group		$331,826.00		1997 - 2000
	Western Organization of Resource Councils		$287,763.00		1991 - 1999
	Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy		$265,778.00		1992 - 2000
	Natural Resources Defense Council		$216,937.00		1991 - 2000
	Greenpeace		$158,567.00		1991 - 2000
	Northern Plains Resource Council		$143,000.00		1992 - 2000
	Center for Food Safety		$60,000.00		1997 - 1997
	Dakota Rural Action		$60,000.00		1996 - 2000
	Idaho Rural Council		$37,500.00		2000 - 2000
	Dakota Resource Council		$30,000.00		2000 - 2000
	Ruckus Society		$23,400.00		1999 - 2000
	EarthSave International		$6,000.00		1991 - 1998

 

[Carry_Okie]

A most familiar list of perps. The funny thing is, I've never heard of the Tides Foundation. Where do they focus their cash? If it's so heavy with Pew money, is a lot of it in the Pacific Northwest?

[madfly]

Gee, they seem like such helpful folks!!!!They'll do all your bookkeeping for your 501(c) group, and you can be an NGO tooooo! Harassment prevention included, lmao.

Tides Center helps reduce the complexity of operating a successful nonprofit program and enables committed individuals to concentrate on their programs and goals.

By bringing quality management services to creative social innovators, Tides helps social change initiatives move forward with financial integrity.

If you become a Tides Center project, you acquire the organizational infrastructure that frees you to conduct your work in an effective, prudent, and results-oriented way. Our staff provide core services such as financial and personnel administration, while you focus on your program, planning, fundraising, and outreach strategies.

You can become a project as an interim step before creating your own organization or, like many of our projects, enjoy the efficiencies and cost savings of our support for an extended period of time.

Here is a look at what Tides Center provides:

• Fiscal Sponsorship - the legal infrastructure of a 501(c)(3) entity, with appropriate legal incorporation, IRS exemption, and charitable registration.

• Complete Financial Services - oversight of all revenues and expenditures, monthly financial reports, budgetary tracking, payment of all invoices, audit and governmental reporting, all tax returns, and training in budget preparation and financial management.

• Comprehensive Employee Benefits - standard vacation and sick pay compensation, health, dental, life and disability insurance coverage, and a retirement plan.

• Innovative Administrative Support - an array of administrative services, from liability insurance to grant and contract management, designed to serve your needs.

• Expert Human Resources Policies, Training, and Intervention - assistance to project directors in personnel matters and annual training in human resources, from supervisory skills to harassment prevention.

For a more complete description of Tides Center services and costs please see our Chart of Services.

[madfly]

http://www.tides.org/tides-directions.cfm

Tides Foundation and Tides Center
at The Thoreau Center for Sustainability
Presidio Building 1014 (Lincoln Blvd. & Torney Ave.)
San Francisco, CA 94129
415. 561. 6400

[BOBTHENAILER]

In reality, 20 percent of the nation’s beef is produced in the west. Ranches in the Arivaca-Altar Valley area of Arizona alone produce nearly two million pounds of beef annually.

That answers the old question, "Where's the beef"?

A very good post hammer. The agenda of these people must constantly be exposed. They are everywhere and their pressure and damage is incalcuable.

[Carry_Okie]

Presidio Building 1014

Well, well, well, right down the garden path from Mr. Gorbachev. Dave says we be should worrying about the "enviralists." Just who the hell does he think cuts their checks?

It's simply organized crime on a grand scale.

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[hammerdown]

"It's simply organized crime on a grand scale."

Damn straight! It gets sicker by the minute.

Have you heard of these freaks?

EarthSave International
1509 Seabright Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95062

Background
EarthSave began in 1988 as a pet project of John Robbins, one-time heir to the Baskin-Robbins ice cream fortune. His book Diet for a New America had just been published, and he intended for the new organization to pick up where his writing left off. Just as Robbins’ book outlined an ideological connection between food activists (vegetarians/animal rights zealots) and the more “mainstream” environmentalism (what used to be known as “ecology” and “conservation”), EarthSave sits at the nexus of these two worlds.

Ex-Montana-cattle-rancher Howard Lyman is currently EarthSave’s president, and its incoming chairman is Jeffrey Armour Nelson, heir to the Armour meatpacking empire. Add Robbins to the mix, and you have a triumvirate with one common link: they came from “the other side,” and they constantly remind their followers of this (as though the fact of their conversion should grant their ideology instant gravitas and validity).

EarthSave’s web site is hosted by Jeff Nelson’s “VegSource.com” empire, and its board members overlap heavily with the animal rights activists and dispensers of questionable dietary advice that “VegSource” features daily.

Advisory Board Member     Ingrid Newkirk

Co-founder, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; Advisory Board member, EarthSave International; Advisory Board member, United Poultry Concerns; Director, The Foundation to Support Animal Protection; animal rights activist

[holyscroller]

"So is Hess, an enviral Rat Mole playing the role of a Cato so called conservative. He reminds me of Bill Kristol, whom to me and many is nothing but a Rat/Mole pretending to be a conservative Repubilican?"

I agree with you completely about Kristol. He has a smirk that looks like it's glued on, and looks like a Cheshire Cat as he knifes the Conservative viewpoint in the back.

Also, look closely at that "5 million visitor" figure. If they're counting the numbers like the NPS does, they have counters on any road that passes through the territory, and any car on those roads is counted as a "non-recreational visitor" and then multiplied by some phoney factor (2.6 people per car where I am) and that's how they inflate the figures. Up here they say Olympic National Park has 4 million visitors per year, but the truth is, they count every car, school bus, mail man, delivery truck, logging truck and everything else on Highway 101 which encircles the Olympic Peninsula, as if they were park visitors, and in truth, the park has only a small number of visitors, and most of those only on 3 main weekends a year: Memorial Day, 4th of July and Labor Day. Bottom line: The attendance figures are LIES!!!!!