Landscape Conservation Cooperatives

[DejaVu]

Anyone familiar with these? I read about it in New Mexico Stockman.
"It was created with Secretarial Order 3289, Feb 22, 2010. This government agency is working with "Earth firsters" Dave Forman and Dr. Reed Noss to create 4 Continental Wildways, large protected corridors of land running coast to coast and north to south providing "Room to Roam (copywrite symbol)". The ultimate goal is the re-wilding of Northern Western hemisphere with fifty percent of the land area in wilderness surrounded by core buffer areas of limited human activity and connected via the above Wildways. Within this maze of regulated lands there will be allowed islands of human occupation."

http://www.fws.gov/mountain-prairie/science/lcc.cfm

 

[Anonymous]

This is the group that is buying up much of the local area... Their immediate goal is to buy up/obtain the land between the Grasslands National Park of Canada and the Charles M Russell game preserve on the Missouri River and stock the entire area with buffalo and make it an American Serengeti .... They have been paying huge prices for local ranch's and in that way obtaining the BLM allotments that go with them... And slowly they are growing their buffalo herd... Since they don't yet have a big enough herd to cover the area they have purchased- they have been allowing the selling rancher to lease it from them for up to 10 years..

http://www.americanprairie.org/


But many believe this is just the beginning of a concept to have a wildlife preserve that stretchs from Canada to Texas- the Buffalo Commons...

The Buffalo Commons is a conceptual proposal[clarification needed] to create a vast nature preserve by returning 139,000 square miles (360,000 km2) of the drier portion of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the American bison ("buffalo"), that once grazed the shortgrass prairie. The proposal would affect ten states: (Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas).

The proposal originated with Frank J. Popper and Deborah Popper, who argued in a 1987 essay that the current use of the drier parts of the plains is not sustainable. The authors viewed the historic European-American settlement of the Plains States as hampered by lack of understanding of the ecology and an example of the "Tragedy of the Commons". Many people in potentially affected states resisted the concept during the 1990s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Commons

http://gprc.org/research/buffalo-commons/#.U06bvTbnacw

 

[Silver]

How can these groups end up with this BLM land if they are not using it?
Do you not need commensurability to hold it?

 

[DejaVu]

Quoting from New Mexico Stockman:
LCC's were created by the signing of Secretarial Order 3289, Amendment 1 on Feb 22,2010, with full-blown government support and funding (http://www.fws.gov/home/climatechange/pdf/SecOrder3289.pdf). The authorizing language reads, in part, "The Climate Change Response Council will implement Department-specific climate change activities through the following mechanisms...
(c) Landscape Conservation Cooperatives. Given the broad impacts of climate change, management responses to such impacts must be coordinated on a land-scape-level basis. For example, wildlife migration and related needs for new wildlife corridors, the spread of invasive species and wildfire risks, typically will extend beyond the borders of National Wildlife Refuges, BLM lands, or National Parks. Additionally, some bureau responsibilities (e.g.,Fish and Wildlife Service migratory bird and threatened and endangered species responsibilities) extend nationally and globally. Because of the unprecedented scope of affected landscapes, Interior bureaus and agencies must work together, and with other federal, state, tribal and local governments, and private landowner partners, to develop landscape-level strategies for understanding and responding to climate change impacts. Interior bureaus and agencies, guided by the Climate Response Council, will work to stimulate the development of a network of collaborative "Landscape Conservation Cooperatives." These cooperatives, which already have been formed in some regions, will work interactively with the relevant DOI Regional Climate Change Response Center(s) and help coordinate adaptation efforts in the region. "

 

[Big Muddy rancher]

How can these groups end up with this BLM land if they are not using it?
Do you not need commensurability to hold it?

Governments on both sides of the 49th have different rules for different people. :?

Also remember the "Wildlife federations" are not the ranchers friends either.

 

[Red Barn Angus]

Whenever I hear of these radical and useless projects I wonder just how these idiots expect to eat. There is a very nice ranch in this area that is now owned by a quasi government-conservation outfit to conserve the native prairie like it was. Of course they have a fancy tourist shop where they sell knickknacks. I overheard a guide there telling some city slickers about their buffalo project and how they had 1000 acres and were working toward getting 100 adult buffalo to graze there. Keep in mind this is where we graze one pair on about 7 acres for 6 months and the grass rests for 6 months during winter. I suggested to the guide that that was not a conservation program, it was a sure way to ruin the grass and grub it down to nothing. Wow, did I get a cold response!