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Read Between the Lines
Jun 6
Read between the lines. Government double-speak is a malarkey-mix of give and take, take and take. They tax productive American businesses $2.5 billion dollars, hire 20,000 new government employees and brag about the $2.5 going back into the economy as they purchase more private land to “protect” it. Every day there is a new move toward the 50×50 program for the government to own 50% of the US land mass by 2050. Obviously this is easy to understand as simple old “hard line communism.” The government wants control of all food producing land.
Ag and Interior Departments Invest $2.8 Billion to Protect Public Lands, Support Conservation Efforts
Historic investments from Great American Outdoors Act will support more than 20,000 jobs and contribute more than $2.5 billion to the economy
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“The Great American Outdoors Act has enabled the Forest Service to begin to address our $8.6 billion deferred maintenance backlog, and we’re motivated by the impact these funded projects are having across urban and rural communities near our national forests and grasslands,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “These investments in Forest Service infrastructure – including wildland firefighter and employee housing, recreation facilities, roads and trails – demonstrate the agency’s commitment to caring for the land and serving people.” (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain)
WASHINGTON — The Departments of Agriculture and the Interior announced a proposed investment of $2.8 billion in fiscal year 2025 through the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) to protect and sustain our public lands and Bureau of Indian Education (BIE)-funded schools. Proposed projects will occur in all 50 U.S. states, Washington D.C., and multiple U.S. territories.
In August 2020, GAOA established the National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF), authorizing up to $1.9 billion per year from fiscal year 2021 through 2025. GAOA LRF funding addresses overdue maintenance needs for critical facilities and infrastructure in our national parks and forests, national wildlife refuges, recreation areas, and BIE-funded schools. GAOA also provides permanent, full funding of the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) at $900 million annually to secure public access and improve recreation opportunities on public lands, protect watersheds and wildlife, and preserve ecosystem benefits for local communities.
Investments from GAOA work in concert with President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to strengthen our nation’s infrastructure and prepare it to meet future needs. These investments are an important part of enabling equitable access to the outdoors and meeting the commitments outlined in the America the Beautiful initiative, which is supporting locally led efforts to restore and conserve at least 30 percent of U.S. lands and waters by 2030.
“The Great American Outdoors Act has enabled the Forest Service to begin to address our $8.6 billion deferred maintenance backlog, and we’re motivated by the impact these funded projects are having across urban and rural communities near our national forests and grasslands,” said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “These investments in Forest Service infrastructure – including wildland firefighter and employee housing, recreation facilities, roads and trails – demonstrate the agency’s commitment to caring for the land and serving people.”
“Addressing the long-delayed maintenance needs of the nation’s aging infrastructure allows safe and equitable access to our outdoor spaces, creates new jobs, and preserves our natural heritage. I was a proud champion of this proposal when I served in Congress, and it has been my honor to see the value it has created through the law’s implementation,” said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland. “Working together with state, local and Tribal governments, we are committed to ensuring that every child, family and community has access to nature and its benefits.”
National Parks and Public Land Legacy Restoration Fund (LRF)
For fiscal year 2025, the Department of the Interior has proposed 83 GAOA LRF projects and the Department of Agriculture has proposed 89 bundled GAOA LRF projects across all 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and four U.S. territories to improve recreation facilities, water and utility infrastructure, BIE-funded schools, historic structures and other essential infrastructure. For the first time, the Interior Department will invest in all 50 states in a single funding year, helping ensure that the impact of GAOA LRF is felt across the country.
In total, these projects will support more than 20,000 jobs and contribute more than $2.5 billion to the economy. Economic contributions from GAOA LRF are far-reaching, as projects take place in urban, suburban, and rural areas across the U.S. and its territories.
GAOA LRF continues to serve as a critical funding source to make major investments that are normally out of reach with annual funding. GAOA’s LRF funding sunsets after fiscal year 2025 and would need to be reauthorized by Congress to continue the efforts underway to address significant infrastructure needs across public lands and BIE-funded schools.
Interior’s GAOA project page and Agriculture’s GAOA story map demonstrate the difference these projects are having on local communities by improving access and outdoor recreation opportunities across public lands.
Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF)
The fiscal year 2025 budget allocates $900 million for LWCF projects and programs managed by the Departments of the Interior and USDA Forest Service. This includes $437 million for federal land acquisition programs and projects, $455 million for state and local grants, and $8 million for a first-ever Tribal LWCF program.
The Department of the Interior will allocate $681.9 million for its mandatory funded LWCF programs, which includes $313 million for land acquisition. Land acquisition projects acquire critical lands or easements from willing sellers to protect at-risk natural, cultural, or historic resources including critical habitats and migration corridors, and increase access to outdoor recreation. The Interior Department will also invest more than $160 million to fund 48 projects in as many as 30 states across the country, in addition to smaller recreation access projects.
An additional $360.8 million for Interior’s LWCF grant programs will support locally driven state and local conservation and outdoor recreation, including through National Park Service formula grants and Outdoor Recreation Legacy Program (ORLP) grants. The ORLP enables urban communities to create new outdoor recreation spaces, reinvigorate existing parks, and form connections between people and the outdoors in disadvantaged communities.
In 2025, the Interior Department proposes $8 million to establish a new Tribal LWCF Land Acquisition program. The program will enable Tribes to directly participate in the LWCF for the first time to acquire lands for natural and cultural resource conservation and recreation access. The program will award funds for Tribal land acquisition projects consistent with the purposes of the LWCF and other program criteria.
In Fiscal Year 2025, the USDA Forest Service proposes $94.2 million to fund 13 Forest Legacy Program projects and $124 million to fund 16 Land Acquisition Program projects for recreation access and other needs.
These efforts advance President Biden’s Justice40 Initiative, which sets a goal that 40 percent of the overall benefits of certain federal climate, clean energy, affordable and sustainable housing, and other investments flow to disadvantaged communities that are marginalized by under investment and overburdened by pollution.
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By Chris Bennett April 30, 2024
How much acreage can a president take with the stroke of a pen? 10 million acres? 500 million acres? More?
The answer, says sixth-generation rancher Chris Heaton, is not a single acre beyond the law. Heaton’s livestock operation is at risk from the federal government’s latest land appropriation—a near million-acre claim by President Biden via the Antiquities Act through creation of the Ancestral Footprints National Monument.
Contending abuse of presidential authority, Heaton, in the crosshairs of potential fines and imprisonment for everyday activity on his ranch, has filed a federal lawsuit against Biden.
“My forefathers built this ranch and I’m not going to lose it on my watch,” Heaton says. “I’ll do this the proper way in the courts, and if Biden wants a fight, then he’s going to get one.”
A Weapon
In August 2023, Biden issued a proclamation turning 917,618 federal acres in northern Arizona into the Ancestral Footprints National Monument by wielding the power of the Antiquities Act, a law intended for the protection of archeological sites or landmarks and their immediate, surrounding acreage.
Biden dropped a blanket of government regulation on every inch of the Monument, an area 150,000 acres larger than Yosemite, and 75,000 acres bigger than the Grand Teton National Park and Great Smoky Mountains Park put together. Biden’s proclamation covers landscapes, species, and objects—named and unnamed—within all 917,618 acres, including plateaus, canyons, tributaries, remnants of homes, storage buildings, pottery, tools, other physical remnants of human habitation, 50 species of plants, groundwaters that flow into the Colorado River, geological features, cliffs, faults, deserts, grasslands, woodlands, forests, riparian vegetation, and a variety of endangered species.
“Normal ranching is now gone here, and that’s what my family has practiced for decades,” Heaton insists. “Overnight, we’re not allowed to disrupt or destroy objects, both known and unknown, on the Monument. We literally don’t know all the objects because some are listed and some are not, yet they have associated criminal penalties. This is like putting someone in a game and expecting them to play by the rules—without telling them the rules.”
On a mix of private land and acres leased from Arizona and the Bureau of Land Management, Heaton, 37, runs cattle on 48,603 acres now overlapped by the Monument. He has three federal grazing permits and 47 private water rights.
Every day of the year, Heaton’s 200 cow pairs are on land designated for the Monument. In daily rhythm, Heaton and his family tend livestock, clean water holes, cut overgrowth, remove silt, mend fences, drop minerals, chop ice, repair roads, and a host of other standard production practices—all now in jeopardy.
In February 2024, represented by Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), Heaton filed suit against Biden; Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack; Secretary of Interior Deb Haaland; and Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning.
(DOJ, USDA, DOI, and BLM all declined Farm Journal requests for comment on Chris Heaton’s suit.)
“We’re asking a federal court to check Biden’s executive overreach,” says PLF attorney Adam Griffin. “Biden has taken 1 million acres and said a ‘landscape’ is an object and everything on it is an object. Look at the absurdity: The entire landscape Chris Heaton is on is now a national monument. How does a landscape become an object? I’ve never heard anyone in my life look at a landscape and say, ‘That’s a beautiful object.’”
PLF attorney Frank Garrison says the Biden administration is making “law through proclamation.”
“Only Congress can pass such laws—not the president. Biden is using a work-around to pass regulations that could never get through Congress, and the impact hits people who rely on natural resources to make a living,” Garrison notes. “Chris Heaton is in compliance with all land use statutes, but suddenly the government can turn him into a criminal over his everyday ranching activities.”
“If anyone wants a clear picture of how government power expands to all-powerful levels,” Griffin echoes, “look no further than what has become a weapon in the hands of the president—the Antiquities Act.”
“Does The Law Not Matter?”
In 1906, at the urging of Theodore Roosevelt, Congress passed the Antiquities Act. Contained on a single page, a mere 441 words authorized the president to “declare by public proclamation historic landmarks, historic and prehistoric structures, and other objects of historic or scientific interest that are situated upon the lands owned or controlled by the Government of the United States to be national monuments…”
Congress approved the Antiquities Act to allow a president to protect specific locations in tight crosshairs, evidenced by congressional debate on whether monuments should be limited between 320 to 640 acres. (Congress kept the power to create big-acreage national parks to itself, having started with the establishment of Yellowstone in 1872.)
At passage of the Antiquities Act, the text allowed a president to “reserve as a part thereof parcels of land, the limits of which in all cases shall be confined to the smallest area compatible with proper care and management of the objects to be protected…”
Over the next 120 years, the “smallest area” ballooned to millions of acres, and “objects” expanded to ecosystems. Since 1906, successive presidents have used the Antiquities Act to cordon off staggering swathes of land—roughly 800 million acres in total.
Turns out, the race for land in U.S. history never ended, with Uncle Sam still leading the scramble—never mind the law or Constitution. In recent decades, multiple presidents have vastly increased acreage claims for national monuments. Jimmy Carter; 55 million acres. Bill Clinton; 5 million acres. George W. Bush; 215 million acres. Barak Obama; 554 million acres (mainly via two marine monuments).
“They act as if there is no limiting principle,” Garrison says, “but that’s not how our Constitution works. What next? If a president can designate species, landscapes, ecosystems, and amorphous concepts like objects, then how much land can a president rope off next? The entire West?”
Heaton, via his lawsuit, asks glaring questions: “Does the law not matter? Does the will of the people not matter? Do the reps, senators, state legislators, county boards, and resolutions not matter? One president gets total control and the people and elected officials mean nothing?”
Ranching, Mining, Logging?
Heaton’s Y-Cross Ranch is 40 miles north of the Grand Canyon. He has worked the land, once in the shadows of his father and grandfather, since the age of 8. “My family ranched here before BLM existed. We take care of the land, pay grazing fees, and get nothing for free. There are national monuments with millions of acres all around us in Arizona and Utah, but if you talk to people in coffee shops, grocery stores, or regular folks on the street, you find out that our local economies are strangled because the government forces our area to be dependent on tourism.”
“Ranching, mining, or logging—the government wants to control all of it or shut it down,” Heaton says. “That’s why presidents in the past, and Biden now, are willing to ignore the law. My ranch and many, many other producers are in the crosshairs of his control.”
(Northern Arizona is estimated to have at least 2.6 billion pounds of uranium. In 2022, 95% of uranium needed by U.S. nuclear power plants was imported from foreign countries, including Russia.)
“Special interest groups turned to the president to get this land under federal control because they knew it couldn’t be done legitimately through congress,” concurs PLF attorney Adam Griffin. “However, before this much federal land is locked up, the process should go to the people through their reps in Congress. It shouldn’t be, and wasn’t intended to be, up to a single individual.
Whose Wishes?
Will Heaton’s lawsuit, or a similar case, eventually land before the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS)?
In 2021, SCOTUS declined to hear Massachusetts Lobstermen’s Association v. Raimondo, an Antiquities Act-related case triggered when Obama declared 5,000 square miles of ocean to be a national monument and banned all fishing, but Chief Justice John Roberts expressed concern in a four-page statement:
While the Executive enjoys far greater flexibility in setting aside a monument under the Antiquities Act, that flexibility, as mentioned, carries with it a unique constraint: Any land reserved under the Act must be limited to the smallest area compatible with the care and management of the objects to be protected. Somewhere along the line, however, this restriction has ceased to pose any meaningful restraint. A statute permitting the President in his sole discretion to designate as monuments “land- marks,” “structures,” and “objects”—along with the smallest area of land compatible with their management—has been transformed into a power without any discernible limit to set aside vast and amorphous expanses of terrain above and below the sea.
The Antiquities Act began as a simple measure to protect the past: When the legislative branch via Congress put the ball in motion, the executive branch via the president took the ball and ran. Heaton contends the president has run beyond the Constitution.
“I’m suing because Biden assumes he has power to affect the livelihoods of so many people in agriculture and other industries with a baseless declaration,” Heaton concludes. “He wants to act according to his own wishes, but I’m demanding he act according to the law.”
For more articles from Chris Bennett (cbennett@farmjournal.com or 662-592-1106), see:
- Power vs. Privacy: Landowner Sues Game Wardens, Challenges Property Intrusion
- Corn and Cocaine: Roger Reaves and the Most Incredible Farm Story Never Told
- American Gothic: Farm Couple Nailed In Massive $9M Crop Insurance Fraud
- Priceless Pistol Found After Decades Lost in Farmhouse Attic
- Cottonmouth Farmer: The Insane Tale of a Buck-Wild Scheme to Corner the Snake Venom Market
- Tractorcade: How an Epic Convoy and Legendary Farmer Army Shook Washington, D.C.
- Bizarre Mystery of Mummified Coon Dog Solved After 40 Years
- While America Slept, China Stole the Farm
The Rise of Global Governance
By Henry Lamb
The desire to rule the world has been a part of the human experience throughout recorded history. Alexander the Great led Greece to dominance of the known world, only to become the victim of Rome’s quest for world dominance. The Roman Empire, built on bloody battlefields across the land, was swallowed up by the Holy Roman Empire, built on the fear and hopes of helpless people. History is a record of the competition for global dominance. In every age, there has always been a force somewhere, conniving to conquer the world with ideas clothed in promises imposed by military might. The 20th century is no different from any other: Marx, Lenin, and Hitler reflect some of the ideas which competed for world dominance in the 1900s. The competition is still underway. The key players change from time to time, as do the words that describe the various battlefields, but the competing ideas remain the same.
One of the competitors is the idea that people are born free, “totally free and sovereign,” and choose to surrender specified freedoms to a limited government to achieve mutual benefits. The other competitor is the idea that government must be sovereign in order to distribute benefits equitably and to manage the activities of people to protect them from one another. The first idea, the idea of free people, is the idea that compelled the pilgrims to migrate to America. The U.S. Constitution represents humanity’s best effort to organize and codify the idea of free people sovereign over limited government. It is a relatively new idea in the historic competition for world dominance.
The other idea, the idea of sovereign government, is not new. Historically, the conqueror was the government. The Emperor, the King, the conqueror by whatever name, established his government by appointment and established laws by decree. Variations of this idea emerged over time to give the perception that the people had some say in the development of law. The Soviet Union, for example, held elections to choose its leaders; but the system assured the outcome of the elections as well as the ultimate sovereignty of the government. During the 1700s, the first idea was ascendant as evidenced by the creation of America. During the 1900s, the second idea has again become ascendant as evidenced by the emergence of global governance. This report identifies and traces some of the major forces, events, and personalities that are responsible for the rise of global governance in the 20th century.
The documented history of Global Governance – Why, How, and When
https://www.iatp.org/sites/default/files/Global_Governance_Why_How_When.htm
‘Climate Crisis’ is Just a Pretext to Steal Land, Implement Globalist Agenda: Eva Vlaardingerbroek
May 10
‘When you take off access to our resources … this is the energy insecurity that we’re talking about,’ Rep. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) said.
Fish Creek through the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska, managed by the Bureau of Land Management on Alaska’s North Slope, on July 8, 2004. (David W. Houseknecht/United States Geological Survey via AP)
The Biden administration took action on Friday to restrict new oil and gas drilling on more than 13 million acres of land in the western Arctic region.
The U.S. Department of Interior announced the publication of a final rule on Friday, limiting future oil and gas leasing and industrial development in the Teshekpuk Lake, Utukok Uplands, Colville River, Kasegaluk Lagoon, and Peard Bay Special Areas. Together, these areas cover around 13.3 million acres of land in the National Petroleum Reserve Alaska (NPR-A).
The Interior Department said these areas of Alaska are known for significant globally significant wildlife habitats, including those of grizzly and polar bears, caribou, and hundreds of thousands of migratory birds.
“Alaska’s majestic and rugged lands and waters are among the most remarkable and healthy landscapes in the world, sustaining a vibrant subsistence economy for Alaska Native communities,” President Joe Biden said Friday. “These natural wonders demand our protection. I am proud that my Administration is taking action to conserve more than 13 million acres in the Western Arctic and to honor the culture, history, and enduring wisdom of Alaska Natives who have lived on and stewarded these lands since time immemorial.”
The new rule doesn’t necessarily change the terms for existing leases in the NPR-A or affect currently authorized operations. Instead, the rule specifies these areas are generally closed to new leasing and infrastructure projects.
The rule provides exceptions, including allowing the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to permit new leasing and infrastructure in cases where an existing well may be draining an otherwise restricted Federal or Indian oil or gas resource. Another exception allows BLM to approve new roads, pipelines, and transmission lines if they deem these projects will benefit local communities and include measures that assure maximum resource protection. BLM may also allow for new infrastructure if they deem it “essential for exploration or development activities” and “no practicable alternatives exist” that would have less adverse impacts on the local environment.
Today’s historic actions to protect lands and waters in the western Arctic will ensure continued subsistence use by Alaska Native communities while conserving these special places for future generations,” said John Podesta, the Senior Advisor to the President for International Climate Policy.
With this latest rule announcement, Mr. Podesta credited the Biden administration with extending protections over 41 million acres of lands and waterways across the United States in his presidency, “leaving a huge mark on the history of American conservation.”
New Rule Follows Contentious Willow Project Approval
The new restrictions on oil and gas extraction operations in the NPR-A come just over a year after the Biden administration approved a scaled-back version of a new drilling operation, proposed by ConocoPhillips, dubbed the Willow Project.
ConocoPhillips had acquired the leases for the Willow Project in the 1990s and had sought for years to begin drilling. In their scaled-back approval, the Biden administration allowed three of the five proposed drilling pads to proceed, while ConocoPhillips relinquished 68,000 acres of its NPR-A leases and abandoned infrastructure development plans for the two canceled drilling pads that would have included 11 miles of roads, 20 miles of pipelines, and 133 acres of gravel.
The decision to approve the scaled-back Willow Project drew criticism from environmental activists.
Abbie Dillen, president of environmental group Earthjustice, said the Willow Project’s approval “hands over one the most fragile, intact ecosystems in the world to ConocoPhillips.”
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass) called the Biden administration’s decision an “environmental injustice” that “leaves an oil stain on the administration’s climate accomplishments and the president’s commitment not to permit new oil and gas drilling on federal land.”
Though this new rule does not reverse the earlier decision to approve the Willow Project, environmental groups applauded the latest move.
“We applaud the Biden Administration for this important step to increase protections for 13 million acres of the Western Arctic to safeguard the irreplaceable ecosystems and wildlife found there,” Ms. Dillen said Friday.
Earthjustice still said more action is needed “to ensure that the oil industry does not cause further damage to the Reserve.” In a Friday press statement, the group noted ongoing litigation challenging the Willow Project’s approval.
“For more than a year, millions of people called on President Biden and his administration to stop the extraction on these lands – extraction that every year drives us closer to climate catastrophe,” Sierra Club Executive Director Ben Jealous said of the new rule. “Thankfully, the Biden administration listened.”The new limits on oil and gas leasing in the NPR-A come a week after the Interior Department announced it had raised fees associated with operating oil and gas leases throughout the country.
Alaska Senators Rebuke New Ruling
A group of Republican lawmakers, led by Alaska Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, spoke out on Thursday evening ahead of Friday’s announcement. The lawmakers accused the Biden administration of hindering U.S. energy independence and making the United States more reliant on oil from adversary countries like Russia, Iran, and Venezuela.
“When you take off access to our resources, when you say you cannot drill, you cannot produce, you cannot explore, you cannot move it—this is the energy insecurity that we’re talking about,” Ms. Murskowski said.
Mr. Sullivan called the new decision a “clearly illegal” attack on Alaska’s economic engine. Mr. Sullivan also challenged assertions coming through the Biden administration that the new actions were being taken with Alaskan Native communities in mind.
“Joe Biden is lying. The elected Alaska Native leaders who live in the area vehemently oppose this rule on NPR-A,” Mr. Sullivan said in a Friday social media post.
The American Exploration & Production Council (AXPC), a trade association for the oil and natural gas exploration and production industry, also condemned the new rules.
“AXPC companies support and encourage proper land management and conservation, but this latest rule is inconsistent with and outside the bounds of BLM’s statutory authority, and is part of the Biden administration’s playbook to restrict American energy production,” AXPC CEO Anne Bradbury said Friday.
Ms. Bradbury argued the new rule oversteps the authority given to the BLM under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Mineral Leasing Act, and said AXPC is evaluating its next possible steps to challenge the rule.
According to a new analysis prepared by the Center for American Progress (CAP), the progressive organization pushing for the preservation of at least 30 percent of our lands and oceans by 2030, the Biden administration has added a record 24 million acres – and counting!
Half of those 24 million – 12.5 million acres, was locked down in 2023 alone, according to the CAP analysis. In addition, the administration has funneled more than $18 billion into “conservation” projects.
Some of the projects protected in 2023 include:
- 506,814 acres for the Avi Kwa Arne National Monument in Nevada.
- 917,618 acres for the Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument in Arizona.
- 130,000 acres for lease relinquishments in Montana’s national forest.
- 223,504 acres for mineral withdrawal in Minnesota’s national forest.
- 325,000 acres for Chaco Canyon mineral withdrawal in New Mexico.
- 10,600,000 acres for Western Arctic protections closing oil and gas leasing in Alaska.
- 242,000 acres nationwide for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Wetland’s Conservation projects.
CAP stressed the president should “focus on finalizing strong protections to conserve more lands through ongoing rulemakings such as BLM’s Public Lands Rule and Western Arctic conservation rule, …BLM management plans, restoring protections for tens of millions of acres in Alaska…keeping up the administration’s ambitious and wildly supported pace of protections…”
The Center emphasized Biden’s use of national monument designations and applauded his creation of five new national monuments and the restoration of two more rolled back under the Trump administration. With these seven monuments, Biden has protected 3.5 million acres of land with the stroke of his pen.
They claim if President Biden protects an additional 215,000 acres under the Antiquities Act of 1906, he will “set the record of monument protection by acreage among recent presidents…”
“Conservation funding” has also increased. Biden has thrown $18 billion toward federal, state, local, and Tribal land conservation in all 50 states. Importantly for agriculture, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its first round of Inflation Reduction Act grants for farm bill conservation programs at $1.7 billion for “climate-smart agriculture and conservation.”
The Inflation Reduction Act was nothing more than a gigantic political slush fund disguised as climate change protections so Biden could throw as much money at his liberal friends and buy as many votes as possible. It also serves the purpose of casting a federal nexus onto private property, potentially triggering federal land use restrictions in the future. It has nothing to do with saving the environment. It’s all about politics, control, and money.
CAP recommends the “administration should not be shy in utilizing every tool at its disposal as it approaches 2024. Doing so will put communities first and keep the country on track toward achieving 30×30.”
CAP Analysis: https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-biden-administration-has-reached-conservation-records-in-2023/
Memo: On April 3 a Town Hall meeting was held by the Egypt Valley Wildlife Refuge Committee with all area land-owners invited. Author and special speaker Tom Deweese spoke on government confiscation of lands and what recourse citizens have against this heavy-handed takings. The event was well
attended by elected representatives and filmed by Fox news 9. Photos of the event with a written presentation of losses caused by ODNR from their lack of management of the property were presented. Copy below. DD
EGYPT VALLEY RECOVERY/ DEVELOPMENT
“As citizens, we all have an obligation to intervene in government
and become involved – it’s the citizen who stops the bleeding.”
The day President Biden was sworn in he made mention of his 30×30 goal. Later he added a 50×50 goal to his list of future plans.
The 30×30 is a plan for the government to own 30% of the USA by 2030, then 50% by 2050. This is a flawed Agenda 21 plot that the people can not manage and should not own land—the government should be the owner of all land and all production.
This is their end game. The reason for the 30×30 land grab. The purpose for the climate crisis hysteria. We will own nothing. They will own everything. ~Margaret Byfield
In three years the government has added 24,000,000 acres to government ownership, the most of any administration. This land is taken out of private enterprise and removed from the tax base. More land “takings” are planned and states are conspiring with the feds to help confiscate these private properties. Under words like “conservation,” “wildlife refuges,” “natural areas,” “parks,” “protected lands,”and “public lands” these acres are adding up by the millions with names that are designed to be palatable to tax payers.
“Governments are capable of absolutely anything because they consider their citizens
a national resource available for exploitation, almost like cattle.” ~Doug Casey
LOSS DAMAGE REPARATIONS FROM ODNR:
- Back tax-base loss-recovery up to 28,000 acres
- Development of lake and tourist park shelters as promised
- Purchase of road maintenance equipment for Kirkwood TSP
- Development of public water system for area use from 100 acre lake.
- Open season year around on ODNA released predators, river otter, lions, bob cats, ferrets, etc., without licenses or fines.
- Income from land use including oil leases payable for local use.
DEVELOPMENT FUNDING:
- Immediate release of certain parcels for cash sales
- Immediate release of all parcels where oil/gas leasing is possible
- Release contracts for all select cut mature timber
- Land liquidation will not be sold multi-parcel auction.
- Funds acquired from Belmont County lands will be returned to Belmont County for public roads, tourist development, etc.
ASSET VALUES TAKEN FROM BELMONT COUNTY CITIZENS:
- Loss from property tax 28 years at $11 per a 28,000 a = $8,932,000
- Loss surface lease agriculture use or recreation 28,000 a x $30 per acre = $840,000 per year x 28 years = $24,360,000.
- Oil/gas leases signing-deposits $5000 per acre = $140,000,000.
- Future oil/gas royalties per year 35 years $__________________?
- Liquidation surface 28,000 a $2000 per acre = $56,000,000
- Private enterprise loss of collateral-investment-value (lending can be up to 75% of value.)
- Loss to local citizens from private property taxes, income, food production, etc
- Under full agriculture production, fee hunting plus oil and gas production can work together producing income from all sources at the same time with intelligent management. $_______________________________________________
ORDERLY LIQUIDATION:
- Liquidation time estimate, 2 to 12 years
- Sell all EVWR property except selected scenic areas for attractive maintained recreation of no more than 1000 acres.
- Liquidation, research and management by an elected BOD from the area.
- Restock useful wildlife introductions, after predator removal program, releasing turkey, quail, grouse, chukars, pheasants, etc.
- Provide public water from 100 acre lake with taps in Fairview and Hendrysburg. (Land liquidation pays all installation main line costs)
- No new acquisition lands will be removed from private property in the future.
Other considerations:
DEATH BY 1000 CUTS
Mar 22
by: Darol Dickinson
During the Tang Dynasty (A.D. 618-907), the most dastardly enemies of Imperial China suffered a process of slow torture and eventual death. It was a punishment that shoots fear up the spine even today, more than a thousand years later.
In world history, few methods of execution were as gruesome as the “Lingchi”—better known as Death by 1000 Cuts. For those who have never been hanged, electrocuted, or shot by firing squad, the Lingchi should be your last choice of a way to die. Its details evolved into an art form that allowed the victim always to die eventually, but slowly. The worse the crime, the longer the torture. The Lingchi’s success in each case was evaluated by how long the punishment could be stretched out. This process was used by the government as a public spectacle to instill fear. It was famous worldwide as a show of power, extreme severity, and Imperial Chinese savagery.
Slightly different but like the methods of the Lingchi is President Biden’s 2024 State of the Union Address. It includes a proposed budget of $7.3 trillion for fiscal 2025, with a categorical 25% tax on billionaires. (Billionaires are the ones who own businesses and hire the most employees.) Like Lingchi, this budget proposal is not designed for a quick, bloody death, but rather a slow sucking away of private assets. Its unstated goal is to equalize outcomes across the entire US population. That is a mission that makes individuals’ prosperity less likely and their survival under government stabulation ever harder.
Overtly, this $7.3 trillion budget includes a plan to sequester millions of acres of productive land for “the greater good.” Buried in it, however, is a covert scheme to take land away from private enterprise and “protect”—that is, remove—it from farm/food production and oil and mineral exploration. This confiscatory plan is an open secret, because the public has already been forewarned.
When Joe Biden was inaugurated in 2021, he immediately announced a 30×30 project to take 30% of US land from private enterprise by 2030 and retire it—i.e., make it dormant—ostensibly for “the greater good.” Soon after that, he announced his 50×50 plan, and then a grand, even-larger 70×70 plan.
To visualize the government plan. Consider the dwindling size of remaining land private-ownership with each increasing increment of government land-grab.
These proposals have ominous parallels to the Chinese Lingchi as well as to collectivist politics. Specifically, in the playbook of any communist or other authoritarian takeover, the first step is to control land, then to control production of all goods and services, and finally to control all the people. This method of long-term, covert acquisition is clearly defined in the Communist Manifesto. The strategy is clear to those who do their research.
The following table shows federal land ownership state-by-state in 2018. Today, six short years later, the total includes millions more acres. In January 2024, President Biden announced success in acquiring 24,000,000 acres for his 30×30 program, now renamed “America the Beautiful.” That new name for his initiative is a euphemism—a phrase that sounds more patriotic, sanitary, and benign than a heavy-handed government takeover of 30, 50 or 70% of private property in the USA.
Federal land ownership by state (as of 2018) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
State | Federal land | Total state acreage | Percentage of |
880,188 | 32,678,400 | 2.7% | |
222,666,580 | 365,481,600 | 60.9% | |
28,077,992 | 72,688,000 | 38.6% | |
3,159,486 | 33,599,360 | 9.4% | |
45,493,133 | 100,206,720 | 45.4% | |
24,100,247 | 66,485,760 | 36.2% | |
9,110 | 3,135,360 | 0.3% | |
29,918 | 1,265,920 | 2.4% | |
District of Columbia | 9,649 | 39,040 | 24.7% |
4,491,200 | 34,721,280 | 12.9% | |
1,946,492 | 37,295,360 | 12.9% | |
829,830 | 4,105,600 | 20.2% | |
32,789,648 | 52,933,120 | 61.9% | |
423,782 | 35,795,200 | 1.2% | |
384,726 | 23,158,400 | 1.7% | |
97,509 | 35,860,480 | 0.3% | |
253,919 | 52,510,720 | 0.5% | |
1,100,160 | 25,512,320 | 4.3% | |
1,353,291 | 28,867,840 | 4.7% | |
301,481 | 19,847,680 | 1.5 | |
205,362 | 6,319,360 | 3.2% | |
62,680 | 5,034,880 | 1.2% | |
3,637,599 | 36,492,160 | 10.0% | |
3,503,977 | 51,205,760 | 6.8% | |
1,552,634 | 30,222,720 | 5.1% | |
1,702,983 | 44,248,320 | 3.8% | |
27,082,401 | 93,271,040 | 29.0% | |
546,852 | 49,031,680 | 1.1% | |
56,262,610 | 70,264,320 | 80.1% | |
805,472 | 5,768,960 | 14.0% | |
171,956 | 4,813,440 | 3.6% | |
24,665,774 | 77,766,400 | 31.7% | |
230,992 | 30,680,960 | 0.8% | |
2,434,801 | 31,402,880 | 7.8% | |
1,733,641 | 44,452,480 | 3.9% | |
305,502 | 26,222,080 | 1.2% | |
683,289 | 44,087,680 | 1.5% | |
32,244,257 | 61,598,720 | 52.3% | |
622,160 | 28,804,480 | 2.2% | |
4,513 | 677,120 | 0.7% | |
875,316 | 19,374,080 | 4.5% | |
2,640,005 | 48,881,920 | 5.4% | |
1,281,362 | 26,727,680 | 4.8% | |
3,231,198 | 168,217,600 | 1.9% | |
33,267,621 | 52,696,960 | 63.1% | |
465,888 | 5,936,640 | 7.8% | |
2,373,616 | 25,496,320 | 9.3% | |
12,192,855 | 42,693,760 | 28.6% | |
1,134,138 | 15,410,560 | 7.4% | |
1,854,085 | 35,011,200 | 5.3% | |
29,137,722 | 62,343,040 | 46.7% | |
United States | 615,311,596 | 2,271,343,360 | 27.1% |
Source: U.S. Congressional Research Service, “Federal Land Ownership: Overview and Data” | |||
Note that fourteen states have already lost more than 20% of their land to the Federal government. Collectively, the central U.S. government now owns 27.1%—more than a quarter and approaching a third—of the entire continental land mass of the United States:
| Nevada | 80.1% |
| Utah | 63.1% |
| Idaho | 61.9% |
| Alaska | 60.9% |
| Oregon | 52.3% |
| Wyoming | 46.7% |
| California | 45.4% |
| Arizona | 38.6% |
| Colorado | 36.2% |
| New Mexico | 31.7% |
| Montana | 29.0% |
| Washington | 28.6% |
| District of Columbia | 24.7% |
| Hawaii | 20.2% |
| US total | 27.1% |
Here are some methods by which national, state, and non-profit owners of US land legally execute Death by 1000 Cuts:
- Coveted land is normally located near or between other government-owned properties.
- Purchases are usually made by imminent domain or at market price. Some properties are even bought at prices inflated above appraised value to “persuade” owners who don’t want to sell.
- Regardless of price, taxes on citizens are typically increased enough to finance land purchases. Some properties are provisionally bought by NGO’s with contracts to hold them until enough tax revenue has been accumulated.
- With rare exceptions, “protected” land is usually off-limits to agriculture, food production, timber, mining, and oil exploration. “Protected” means that private enterprise is forbidden and thus cannot create jobs, goods, services, income, or profits on government land.
- Government land is immediately removed from tax rolls. It generates no income that would otherwise be collected from normal taxes on private property.
- Public services such as roads, law enforcement, and school revenues cannot be funded from tax-sheltered government land. Instead, private citizens’ taxes to pay for these services must be raised to compensate for untaxed government properties.
- Signs are typically posted to keep the public off government holdings even when they are labeled “public land.”
- Government-owned timber or grass land is rarely harvested properly. It becomes vulnerable to wildfires. Public dumping is frequently rampant near population centers. Secluded areas are often used for illegal drug deals.
- For quarterly and other inspections, federal inspectors drive government cars and trucks, which do not pay taxes for licenses or purchase.
- States cooperate with federal agencies and NGO’s to achieve the Biden administration’s goal of increased government ownership. Because all government assets are fungible, non-taxpaying entities often trade resources for bridge grants, city water systems, and land acreages. Properties can seldom be bought back from the government or non-profits that take land from private ownership.
- Death by 1000 Cuts engulfs historic private land “for the public good,” effectively killing it for all profitable and productive uses.
Protecting US land for profitable, sustainable use by private citizens is extremely important in a free society. Here are some tips for responsible voters:
- Elect representatives who pledge to never expand government land or who will vote to preserve land under only the most compelling conditions.
- Support representatives who pledge to sell government properties back to private owners in a systematic, orderly process for profitable use.
- Demand taxation of all government properties and vehicles.
- Explain to government officials how much public ownership actually costs private citizens for law enforcement, schools, roads—and why Death by 1000 Cuts is dead-wrong painful.
- Be alert to well-meaning bureaucrats who are actually scrambling to earn Biden’s approval by confiscating millions of acres of private property.
- Quit this tax-payer-torture! The bleeding must stop. Just say no to all new government land acquisitions and start an orderly liquidation of the government waste-land ownership.