Biodiversity Conservation Aliiance (aka "Friends of the Bow", aka "Biodiversity Associates") is one of 30 shill groups for the Wildlands Project, which was envisioned by Earth First! ecoterrorist Dave Foreman.
Some excerpts follow from "TECHNICAL REVIEW OF THE WILDLANDS PROJECT
"...a review of Wildlands Project documents suggests that the actions are often well coordinated activities aimed according to the Project's text at establishing a "regional reserve system which will ultimately tie the North American continent into a single Biodiversity Reserve."
" The project calls on the establishment of systems of core wilderness areas where human activity is prohibited, linked with biological corridors."
"In their spring 1996 newsletter, Friends of the Bow/Biodiversity Associates acknowledged thanks for the grants it received from the Foundation for Deep Ecology, Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, National Rivers Coalition, Fund for Wild Nature, Harder Foundation, and Reraam Foundation. Donations from Patagonia and New Belgium Brewing Company are also acknowledged."
" By 1994, the Wildlands Project had identified 38 areas in the western United States where minor road closures would create large roadless areas of more than a million acres. In total, these areas make up more that 75 million acres."
"A key part of the American Wilderness Recovery Plan is to return to Muir's vision for management of our public lands. Commercial livestock grazing of federal and state lands cannot be justified ecologically or economically. Commercial logging, with the possible exception of small pole, post, and firewood sales, should be prohibited. Mining is an inappropriate use of public lands in virtually all cases. Vehicle use off established roads must be entirely prohibited. By freeing Forest Service, BLM, and state lands of such multiple-abuses, many roads and other developments could be closed. Roads necessary only for logging and grazing or recreational access should be closed."
" Members of the Wildlands project have petitioned for the listing of over 100 species as threatened or endangered and have filed lawsuits for the listing of over 2,000 species."
" The Friend of the Bow represents a prime example of the efficiency of the Wildland Project itself. Not only was the Wildlands Project able to establish a project organization to further its objectives in this region of Wyoming, Colorado and South Dakota, but the Wildlands Project was fully capable of providing this organization with professional staffing, necessary funding and a full array of technical and legal consultants to ensure that this "project" is successful."