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The Federal Plan to Monetize Sunlight, Bee Pollination, and Photosynthesis on Your Land

Jan 9

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On a previous episode, we went into some great depth exposing the 30 by 30 agenda. Also known as the “America the Beautiful” program, it was a plan to place 30 percent of America’s land under conservation by the year 2030—essentially locking up a lot of America’s real estate for ostensibly environmental reasons.

One avenue through which the federal government was attempting to do this was to have the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) create an entirely new class of assets called natural asset companies.

This move would have created a new class of company that would then allow investors to purchase the rights to millions of acres of public federal lands, as well as private lands under easement contracts.

Essentially, it would have turned much of the natural resources (such as air, sunlight, and photosynthesis) on America’s land into a tradable stock, open to all investors—including our geopolitical adversaries.

Furthermore, the creation of these “natural asset companies” would have effectively locked up these lands, making it illegal for any entity to conduct any type of financially motivated activity on those lands—such as mining, drilling, farming, ranching, grazing, hunting, fishing, harvesting timber, and so on.

It would essentially take American land out of useful economic production.

And the cherry on top of all of this was the fact that the SEC’s planned rule change seemed to go under the radar—with very little fanfare and with a very short public comment period.

However, it was Margaret Byfield and her organization, the American Stewards of Liberty, who spearheaded the effort to kill this rule before it went into effect.

But while the SEC rule was canned, the idea of locking up U.S. land has morphed into something called “natural capital accounts,” which are now being created to quantify nature’s value and list those values as new assets of the federal government.

We had a chance to sit down and speak with Byfield about what this all means for the average U.S. citizen, as well as her efforts to fight back against what she calls encroachments on our liberty.

Join host Roman Balmakov on this week’s episode of “Facts Matter.”

Views expressed in this video are opinions of the host and guests and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.

Utah Fights for Control of Federal Lands

Dec 26

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In 2024, Utah filed a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s control over 18.5 million acres of “unappropriated” land—areas without specific congressional designations like national parks or forests. The state contends that the indefinite federal retention of these lands is unconstitutional, arguing that the Property Clause of the U.S. Constitution grants Congress the power to “dispose of” federal lands, not to hold them without designated use.

Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes emphasizes that federal control over nearly 70% of Utah’s land limits the state’s sovereignty and self-governance. The lawsuit also challenges the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) recent Public Lands Rule, which elevates conservation to a status equal with grazing and mineral development. Utah argues this shift contradicts the BLM’s legal obligation to promote multiple-use and sustained yield under the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA).

The case has garnered support from various states, counties, and organizations, all urging the Supreme Court to hear it. Critics of federal land retention assert that it infringes on state sovereignty and hampers economic activities such as grazing, energy production, and recreation. They also claim that policies mandating indefinite federal land retention treat states like Utah unequally compared to those with greater control over their lands.

This legal challenge underscores ongoing tensions between state and federal authorities over land management in the Western United States, with significant implications for public land policy and state sovereignty.

Full Article here: https://americanstewards.us/utah-fights-for-control-of-federal-lands/

The State of Utah has a website called Stand for our Land at https://standforourland.utah.gov/

Tags: Agenda 30/30, BLM, Fascism, Land Grab, Property Rights, Totalitarian Government, Utah

Federal Agencies Using Tricky Accounting to Grab More Power

Dec 21

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The Epoch Times sits down to speak with Aurelia Skipwith, the former director of the US Fish and Wildlife Service under President Trump.

And she explained to us her insights regarding the Biden Administration’s Agenda 30×30, (to place 30% of America’s land into conservation by the year 2030) and how ultimately, it’s all a giant government power grab under the guise of environmental policy.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/federal-agencies-using-tricky-accounting-to-grab-more-power-facts-matter-5522671

The Renaissance Cowboy

Dec 21

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Author: LEE PITTS

Darol Dickinson is the cattle industry’s Renaissance Man. As you’re probably aware, The Renaissance was a period in European civilization that was marked by a revival of Classical learning and wisdom. To refer to someone as a “Renaissance Man” or “Renaissance Woman” means that individual is extremely intelligent and a highly skilled person in many areas.

I don’t know of a better definition of Darol Dickinson than that.

Head To Tail

I first became aware of Darol when a friend gave me Darol’s classic book called ‘The Color of Horses’ in which he’d illustrated all 36 of the paintings in it. To this day I haven’t seen anyone who can paint a horse better than Darol did. When the Cowboy Artists of America (CAA) opened at the National Cowboy Hall of Fame in 1966, Darol had artwork in the show as a member of the prestigious CAA. My friend Heather Thomas Smith wrote the best biographical sketch I’ve read yet about the colorful Dickinson and quoted him as saying, “I did paintings and portraits and sold drawings when I was a teenager, selling them from $2 to $5. By the time I went to college I’d sold enough paintings that I was able to just go in and sign up. I asked how much it cost, and wrote them a check.” He was painting portraits of people’s horses and herd bulls all during his college years.

Every time Darol sold a painting he used the money to buy Texas Longhorns or land. By 1979 he quit the painting, constant traveling and taking livestock photographs, (in which he also excelled), to concentrate on his Longhorn business in Colorado. It didn’t take him long to become the leading Longhorn breeder in this, or any other country.

In 1993, Darol relocated his operation to the grasslands of eastern Ohio. He registers more than 500 Longhorns, African Watusi’s and Dutch BueLingo cattle every year and the ranch sells 500 cattle per year, two-thirds of which are registered breeding stock. The rest are sold as processed beef through the Dickinson Ranch store called Head to Tail.

To give you an idea of what an entrepreneur Darol is, consider that when some horns of his beloved Longhorns got broken Darol developed a squeeze chute with open horizontal bars and has never had any cattle get hurt in it. To this day Darol’s ‘Bry Squeeze’ is one of the leading cattle squeeze chutes of any kind.

Says Darol. “We had to create some different markets, and do things different. It worked with a breed of cattle that nobody else wanted, and it became great. It was the trail less traveled.

Land Grabs

Darol has also written several books including Horn Stew, Fillet of Horn and his latest, Larapin Horn, but it is his most recent essay, Land Wars of the World, that should be read by every one in America.
https://downsize-government.org/government-overreach/land-wars-of-the-world-then-and-now/

Land Wars Of The World deals with many of the biggest land grabs in history. Wrote Darol, “Since Adam and Eve, land wars seem to have been part of history. From the earliest battles in ancient Mesopotamia to today’s wars in the Middle East, conflicts over land have continually shaped our world.” According to Darol, “Most wars have been about taking tribute from conquered subjects and land grabs for the powerful. These land grabs are usually paid for by the losers.”

“Alexander the Great lived more than 2,000 years ago,” wrote Darol. “By age 30, he had amassed one of the largest empires in history, stretching from Greece to northwestern India. Widely considered one of world’s most successful military commanders, he was undefeated in his battles for land and tribute.”

“The Roman Empire was one of the largest land grabs in history,” wrote Darol, “with contiguous territories throughout Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. The Latin phrase “imperium sine fine” (empire without end) signaled! That neither time nor space limited the Roman Empire’s expansion. The basis of Rome’s strength, like Alexander’s, was land capture and tribute.”

More recently we’ve seen the downfall of the Commonwealth of Great Britain which was arguably, the most powerful nation in the world at the time before losing its conquered lands one by one. More recently we’ve witnessed Putin’s attempted land grab in Ukraine.

He’s No Abe Lincoln

In reading Darol’s essay I realized there was another reason Abraham Lincoln is my favorite president. Darol writes, “The 16th President of the USA, believed that private ownership and management of land is more productive than government control. He understood that the Federal government couldn’t possibly manage the whole western USA. Private property was the answer, land surveyed, titled, used, improved, maintained, and loved by non-government owners. At the peak of the American Civil War, Lincoln developed a strategy to increase the US’s citizen-owned land. He signed the 1862 Homestead Act into law. It was intended to open western lands to settlers on what the government considered to be ‘idle’ tracts of land captured from Native Americans or purchased like Alaska and the Louisiana Purchase. Pioneer homesteaders were required to improve the land and produce goods, food, or a service. If they lived on their 160-acre homesteads for seven years, the land was theirs at no cost.”

Compare that attitude with President Joe Biden who on January 4, 2024, in Coconino County, Arizona, “Proudly announced,” wrote Darol, “his administration had so far wrested a whopping 24 million acres from private enterprise for the Federal government — a new record for land takeovers, paid for with public tax dollars, and now eliminated from private management and production. Why this enormous acquisition? Ostensible reasons include ‘preservation,’ ‘conservation,’ ‘protection,’ and so forth. To encourage citizens to believe that these and other millions of acres are still theirs, the government often renames formerly private property as ‘public’ land.

The question bounces back, however: “Who is all this land being protected from?”

An Out of Control Monster

Darol rounded up some numbers that should concern everyone. Darol found that the US government owns 664,000,000 acres — almost 30 percent of the nation’s total continental land mass of 2,271,343,000 acres. Darol also found that the national debt is $34,000,000,000,000. That’s 34 Trillion! Darol then calculated the US debt per acre of US owned collateral and found it to be $51,203 PER ACRE! Good luck trying to find a banker who’d give you a loan on that basis!

In other words, “The feds own more ground than the entire acreage of the Roman Empire, give or take a few coliseums.” Writes Darol, “Most Americans don’t realize that our government’s undeclared war for land is a covert, out-of-control monster.”

“How did the federales remove so much land from private tax rolls? Well, they funded it with public tax dollars. The takeover is orchestrated not by Congressional legislation but by executive orders from the Oval Office and rulings from the administrative bureaucracy — without a vote of the citizens or their representatives. The unstated process of this unacknowledged land grab typically bypasses public scrutiny.” Agencies in the Executive branch in Washington, D.C., issue rulings, levy fees and fines, collect “tribute,” then buy private property and remove it from production. That bureaucratic removal is a political conquest that marks the end of private management. The process has historically happened in war but continues today under political cover.

“As recently as January 2024, President Biden also announced that he was expanding the Green movement in Alaska by closing 10,600,000 acres to oil and gas leasing. The federales already own 95.8 percent of Alaska, leaving only 4.2 percent of a resource-rich state for private enterprise to manage and harvest. This administrative action now ‘protects’ the nation’s western Arctic area from the alleged detriment of oil and gas exploration.”

“That’s not the only conquest of private property orchestrated from D.C.,” wrote Darol. “On his inauguration day, Biden mentioned his 30×30 Plan — a strategy ( or plot or scheme) to transfer 30 percent of US land from private ownership to the government by the year 2030. He later released his 50×50 Plan for the government to transform 50 percent of the US to ‘public lands’ by 2050. And believe it or not, Biden has even proposed a 70×70 plan, that would put 70 percent of America under direct government ownership in less than 70 years.

In an Epoch Times interview, Aurelia Skipworth (President Trump’s Secretary of Fish and Wildlife) said, “No one knows how much land the Federal government thinks is enough.” Margaret Byfield, Executive Director of American Stewards of Liberty said, “This is their end game. The reason for the 30×30 land grab. The purpose for the climate crisis hysteria. We will own nothing. The US government will own everything.”

“The Federal government, (not including State lands) already owns 87.8 percent of Nevada, 75.2 percent of Utah, 70.4 percent of Idaho, 60.4 percent of Oregon, etc. As noted above, it already owns nearly 30 percent of continental US land, so it has almost achieved the full 30×30 goal of Federal ownership. As the 50×50 proposal clearly shows, more acquisitions of private land are being planned for the ‘public good,”’ wrote Darol.

Closer To Home

“You may not be concerned with yesterday’s land-grabs by Attila the Hun, or perhaps today’s by Vladimir Putin in Crimea and Ukraine, or maybe not even current marginal US lands a thousand miles away. But what about tomorrow, on your own doorstep?” asks Darol rhetorically. “What if a property is right across the road from your home? What if some State or Federal agency claims it is fallow ground better used for conservation or wetlands or biodiversity or ‘the greater good’? You could become the victim of peacetime ‘tribute.”’

“Such is the case of Kirkwood Township in Ohio s Belmont County,” says Darol. “Only 4.2 percent of Ohio is owned by the Federal government, yet the State itself owns 664,000 acres. Heres the hidden hitch: governments at all levels work together in a fungible relationship. Historically, they have traded land among themselves to fund bridges, city water development, etc. Never have these fungible transactions been determined by a vote of the citizens — never! So we must ask, ‘Are the Federal and Ohio governments working together on Biden s 50×50 scheme in Belmont County?’”

“In Kirkwood Township, a citizens committee has identified the effects of Big Brother as a neighbor and they aren’t good. Under the Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR), the State of Ohio has acquired up to 28,000 acres in Belmont County for the Egypt Valley Wildlife Refuge. It’s working to confiscate more. This land is a small fraction of the land that Ohio already owns, but the committee has discovered that the State’s piece-by-piece ‘conquest’ is devastating the local economy. An undeclared war on private land has made Kirkwood Township the poorest in Belmont County and one of the poorest municipalities in Ohio.”

On Our Watch

‘Why this dereliction?” asks Darol. “Broken promises are the reason that the Egypt Valley Wildlife Refuge has degenerated from its idealistic origins to its present wretched condition.

Over two dozen years ago, the ODNR rationalized its take-over of 28,000-acres. It promised to help the local economy by developing tourism through lakes, pavilions, trails, hunting, fishing, etc. To date, however, the 100-acre lake has not materialized — nor have any of the other improvements. As with so much government fallow land, the EVWR is now an impenetrable jungle spotted with litter and heaps of trash. Why the unfulfilled promises? This public land is suffering from a lack of routine, responsible management.”

In the meantime …

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources (ODNR) pays zero taxes. The tax loss from the EVWR is estimated at $8,932,000 during ODNR control. This lost revenue could have gone to roads, schools, law enforcement, and public services.
No timber has been select cut. It could have been responsibly, sustainably cut every 18 years. 28,000 acres x $2,000/acre x 2 cuts = $96,000,000 of lost income.
No agriculture or hunting leases have been issued. 28,000 acres x $30/acre x 28 years=$24,360,000 forfeited — not a cent received by local governments.
No oil and gas signing leases. $5,000/acre =$140,000,000 unrealized.
No oil and gas royalties. 18 – 20 percent annually for 35 years. Incalculable losses.
No surface liquidation. $2,000/acre x 28,000 acres = $56,000,000 potential income.
Undeterminable loss of private enterprise production of food, products, and services.

“To repeat, due to negligent and non-existent government management, none of the above has been accomplished in Belmont County, Ohio. This pathetic record, “ says Darol, “is typical of most Federal lands. The government simply does not exercise the care and concern of private enterprise.”

What can an individual do at this late date to save America from the Socialists? Darol has a short list of answers. “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; 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 taxpayer-torture!” says Darol. “The bleeding must stop. Just say no to all new government land acquisitions and start an orderly liquidation of the government wasteland ownership.”

As a student of history Darol says, “All great nations eventually die out, some more slowly than others.”

It is not hyperbole to suggest that this upcoming election will decide if your grandchildren grow up in a capitalistic Democracy and enjoy the same freedoms and liberties we have. We should NEVER let it be said that America the Beautiful died on our watch.

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Original Article can be found here:
https://issuu.com/nmstockman/docs/lmd_april_24

CCA sues to stop elk fence removal

Dec 13

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CCA sues to stop elk fence removal

Control Food

Jun 8

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Read Between the Lines

Jun 6

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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

PUBLISHED ON June 5, 2024

U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack (U.S. Department of Agriculture, Public domain)

“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.

–USDA

Tags: Agenda 30/30, BLM, Fascism, Land Grab, Totalitarian Government, Wetlands

Rancher Sues Biden Over 1M Acre Claim, Contends Abuse of Presidential Authority

May 28

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“Ranching, mining, or logging—the government wants to control all of it or shut it down,” says Chris Heaton. “That’s why presidents in the past, and Biden now, are willing to ignore the law.”

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.

CHRIS HEATON HORSE WATERING — “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,” says Chris Heaton. (Photo courtesy of Y-Cross Ranch)

“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…”

CHRIS HEATON RANCHER ARIZONA UTAH — Will Chris Heaton’s federal lawsuit, or a similar case, eventually land before SCOTUS? (Photo courtesy of Y-Cross Ranch)

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)?

“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.” (Photo courtesy of Y-Cross Ranch)

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:

Tags: Agenda 30/30, Fascism, Land Grab, Property Rights, Totalitarian Government

Before He Died Henry Lamb WARNED AMERICA!

May 17

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Now you know! The 15 minute city makes perfect sense and boy its a doozy STAY VIGILANT and lets NOT BE 1992 lets stop it before the tree gets to big the goal looks like taking away your farm or homestead and forcing us into the 15 cities YOU DOWN WITH THAT?

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 20^th 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 20^th century.