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redrobin

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This can't be good.

http://utvweekly.com/index.php/2010/06/montana-listening-sessions-alert-update/

http://www.menwithfoilhats.com/2010/05/federal-government-readies-to-seize-additional-10-million-acres-of-us-open-space/
 

Steve

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including the plans to lock up more than 6 ½ million acres of Montana’s public and private lands

The leak of internal memos has revealed an effort by the Obama administration to create another 6.5 million acres of National Monument land in Montana. According to the maps of these areas over 2/3 is privately owned. Under the name of Treasured Landscapes and in cooperation with organizations like World Wildlife Fund and The Nature Conservancy the government agencies of Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks, Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, and the Department of Interior are working to remove people from the land and take private property.

Bitter Creek landscape total acres 2,491,836
Montana Glaciated Plains total acres 4,138,593

In one of the released emails dated September 9, 2009 from Gina DeFerrari (WWF) to Ned Farquhar the following statement was made by Gina:
“You had asked where Governor Schweitzer’s ranch is-it’s in Judith Basin County, which is on the western boundary of the Nothern Plains ecoregion, as we define it, but outside these two landscapes.”

It is clear the Governor was aware of this project back in September of 2009 and was concerned his private property would be included in the proposed Monument designation.

an Interior Department document leaked on February 14, 2010 shows that the Obama Administration is also seeking to limit access and use to over 10 million acres of land in the West, by possibly designating 14 new National Monuments under the Antiquities Act. While the designation of National Monuments is technically supposed to only include the minimum amount of land necessary to preserve America’s “antiquities,” in reality, in recent years these designations have been significantly larger and have had a severe negative impact on the tax base on many Western communities and counties. But because National Monuments are designated under the Antiquities Act pursuant to an Executive Order by the President, there is not much legal recourse in opposing the designations themselves in federal court.

Even without Obama’s proposed designations, currently there are 100 National Monuments across the Nation, located in 27 states. President Teddy Roosevelt established the first National Monument, Devils Tower in Wyoming in 1906. President Bill Clinton created the most National Monuments, 19 plus the expansion of three existing monuments. Only Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush did not create any new monuments under the Antiquities Act. Over 12,091,930 acres are included in these 100 existing monuments; President Obama’s proposal would add 10,000,000 acres more to that total.

so much for checks and balances... :?




first Obama doubles the deficit... and now he doubles the Land grab.. :mad:
 
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