A 2007 study by the Federal Highway Administration: WILDLIFE-VEHICLE COLLISIONS REDUCTION: 2007, suggests putting radio collars on elk that would signal special driver alert highway safety devices. The radio collars would activate these driver alert devices whenever endangered wildlife was in the area. The road would be closed, special lights would go on, or a bright illuminated sign would tell drivers to slow down and to exercise caution. A link to this study is in the text headlines above.
Saturday, February 2, 2008
WAIT YOUR TURN: ENDANGERED SPECIES CROSSING
Friday, February 1, 2008
Of Bolo Ties And The Amero
According to Stop The NAU (North American Union) website, New Mexico DOES NOT have anti NAU or SPP (Security and Properity Partnership) legislation. http://www.stopthenau.org/Current_Activities.htm Oklahoma, Idaho and Montana have state laws denouncing the NAU/SPP. 16 other states are in the process and Virgil Goode has introduced a bill in Congress.
Where is New Mexico on NAU/SPP? Too bad we have a major applicance, as some have suggested, instead of a representative. If we can get bills presented making the bolo tie the state neck wear there must be plenty of time to do something really meaningful even critical to our sovereignty.
Ask the candidates if they are willing to sponsor such legislation and stop the NAU and SPP dead in its tracks.
Excerpt from WorldNetDaily, 1/30/08
PREMEDITATED MERGER
Resolution fights North American Union
Urges U.S. to withdraw from Security and Prosperity Partnership
In a speech given in Salt Lake City to the Utah Eagle Forum's annual convention Jan. 19, Sandstrom compared the move toward a North American Union to the stealth methodology used by corporate elite to move Europe toward the European Union. The 50-year process began with the European Coal and Steel Agreement in 1957.
"While the newspaper articles and reporters published the sequential events of European integration, most people in the European Community nations thought, 'Ho-hum – no big deal,'" Sandstrom told the Eagle Forum meeting. "As a matter of fact, the Europeans continued to sleep like Gulliver until they were jolted awake when the euro replaced their national currencies."
When the euro was introduced, Sandstrom explained, "fortunes were made and lost, savings were devalued, prices and commodities were suddenly revalued, borders essentially evaporated and individual countries could no longer control their own immigration laws.
"Even their national flags – for which their ancestors had fought and died – were slowly being replaced by the flag of the European community, with its twelve golden stars on a blue background," he continued.
"When that happened, many political leaders and vast numbers of usurped citizens wanted to stop the pan-European train and get off, but it was too late," he said. "Too late, because they were part and parcel of the European Union – now and forever."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59983
The Big Bear Area Regional Wastewater : FEDS V. CITIZENS OF CA
Recharge idea resurfaces at BBARWA
(Note: This is about property rights, resource providing and the inseparable nature of the two. Take water rights, which is part of the bundle of property rights, and resource providing -- part of independence and freedom -- will soon be "gone with the wind." Eighteen pertinent definitions have been selected and added below the article. Federal agencies did their homework well and are using the "special use permit" as a leverage tool to keep hydroelectric power out. Selling a permit for water use is conceding control and ownership of the resource -- in this case, water -- to a federal agency, or landlord, thereby reducing all water users impacted by the permit to tenant status. Of the three acronyms listed below, only the first one is explained in the article. The other two I learned by phoning the newspaper.)
BBARWA – The Big Bear Area Regional Wastewater Agency (California)
CSD – Community Service District
DWP – Department of Water and Power
January 29, 2008
By Brian Charles briancharles@bigbeargrizzly.net or 909-866-3003 + Ext. 134
Big Bear Grizzly
P.O. Box 1789
Big Bear Lake, California 92315
909-866-3456 or 909-866-3003 + Ext. 137
Fax: 909-866-2302
http://www.bigbeargrizzly.net
To submit a Letter to the Editor: jbowers@bigbeargrizzly.net
Liz Harris isn’t comfortable with the future of water in Big Bear Valley. She is so uncomfortable that Harris said she can’t support Bear Valley Electric Service’s plans to use wastewater to make electricity.
Harris is on the Big Bear Lake City Council and also chairs the Big Bear Area Regional Wastewater Agency board. BBARWA is considering allowing Bear Valley Electric Service to use water sent through the outfall line to turn turbines for hydroelectricity. But Harris balks at the idea of committing secondary effluent water to energy production.
“I am concerned our only renewable resource is for sale,” Harris said. What looks worse is that Bear Valley Electric is owned by another water company, Golden Sate Water, she added.
Harris said water rights are complicated, and entering into an agreement with another water agency can be dangerous.
The outfall line sends secondary effluent from Big Bear to alfalfa fields in Lucerne Valley.
BBARWA was given a special use permit by the United States Forest Service in 1978, with the condition that BBARWA continues to look for ways to keep the water in the Valley to support wildlife and plants, said BBARWA General Manager Steve Schindler.
The special use permit has been administratively renewed since 1978 when BBARWA pays the permit fee. But at any time the permit could be reopened and examined, Schindler said. Going forward with a hydroelectric project will prompt a reopening, he said.
BBARWA considered producing electricity along the outfall line when it was constructed. The Forest Service objected because making power from the line creates an economic incentive to send water out of the Valley indefinitely, Schindler said.
The special use permit isn’t the only obstacle stopping the use of the outfall line. The joint powers agreement involving the CSD, the DWP and BBARWA is another hurdle, Schindler said. BBARWA owns the water once it is treated. The CSD and the DWP have first rights to reclaim the same portion of water each agency puts into BBARWA’s system. However, if BBARWA agrees to deliver water to turn Bear Valley Electric Service’s turbines, that agreement supersedes BBARWA’s obligation to the CSD and DWP, Schindler said. Whatever amount BBARWA agrees to release, the CSD and DWP divide what’s left, he said.
BBARWA board member Rick Herrick said he wants to look at the special use permit and the joint powers agreement before entering into an agreement with Bear Valley Electric Service.
However, BBARWA board member Rick Ollila said Herrick and Harris are determined to find ways not to commit water to the project. Herrick and Harris are determined to have a recharge project in the Valley, Ollila said.
Ollila said his interpretation of the joint powers agreement doesn’t prohibit BBARWA from entering into an agreement with Bear Valley Electric Service. The BBARWA renewable energy committee, which Herrick is on, would be responsible for drafting a contract with Bear Valley Electric Service. Language could be included in the contract that allows BBARWA to withhold the water if necessary, Ollila said. “If Herrick does his job, we shouldn’t have a problem,” he said.
Herrick said he doesn’t want to rush into an agreement with Bear Valley Electric Service that BBARWA doesn’t intend to honor. BBARWA might not be selling the water to Bear Valley Electric Service, but once the water is being delivered it can’t just be turned off, he said.
Ollila said he isn’t opposed to looking at recharge as an option again. If Harris’ water summit happens , all the water agencies in the Valley can get an accurate look at the water supply. During the last recharge study the need was never discussed, he said.
The United States Geological Survey study of the Big Bear basin will be available soon, so there is more scientific data. “If the scientific evidence proves that we need to do recharge, I would be for it,” he said.
Harris said a meeting between the DWP and the City Council February 4 will be a precursor to a Valleywide water summit. “It’s not just a legal issue, it’s a moral issue,” Harris said.
Copyright 2008, Big Bear Grizzly.
http://www.bigbeargrizzly.net/articles/2008/01/29/news/bbarwaelectric.txt
Related Definitions:
Aquifer Recharge Area – The surface area (land or water) through which an aquifer is replenished. – New Jersey Department of Community Affairs: Office of Smart Growth http://www.state.nj.us/dca/osg/plan/stateplan/appendices_glossary.shtml
Correlative Rights Doctrine – The correlative rights doctrine gives each overlying property owner a common right to the reasonable, beneficial use of the basin supply on the overlying land. This is similar to the doctrine of riparian rights to surface water. All overlaying landowners have equal rights to percolating ground water and all must share in any water shortages [Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District v. Armstrong, 49 Cal. App. 3d 992, 1001 (1975)]; however, overlying landowners do not have a right to maintenance of the natural water table. [Katz v.Walkinshaw 141 Cal. 116 (1903) [74 P. 766].] The States that have adopted the correlative rights doctrine include Arkansas, California, Delaware, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, and New Jersey. [A. Tarlock at §4.06(2).] – Technical Guide to Ground Water Resource Management, USDA Forest Service, Minerals and Geology Management: Watershed, Fish, Wildlife, Air, and Rare Plants – Engineering. FS-881 May 2007. http://www.fs.fed.us/biology/resources/pubs/watershed/groundwater/ground_water_technical_guide_fs-881_march2007.pdf (Page 228/238 of 295 pages; 7.74 MB)
Land – Real property or any interest therein. http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/waisidx_01/25cfr151_01.html
Landowner – A private owner of land; in the context of national parks this term is often used as a synonym for "inholder;" an individual who holds title to privately-owned land located within the boundaries of a national park. – National Park Service (NPS), Final Lake Crescent Management Plan Environmental Impact Statement Glossary http://www.nps.gov/archive/olym/lceis/lcgloss.htm 2. Person who has title to land recognized by the prevailing legal system. – Appendix H (Biological Assessment and Evaluation for Revised Land and Resource Management Plans and Associated Oil and Gas Leasing Decisions) http://www.fs.fed.us/ngp/final/pdf_feis/Appendix_H.pdf
Property – Something that is owned or possessed. Property may be real (land), personal, tangible (touchable), or intangible (such as the interest in a play or other creative work). – U.S. Treasury OTS (Office of Thrift Supervision, in charge of banks, savings and loan associations, etc.) http://www.ots.treas.gov/glossary/gloss-p.html
Recharge – Process by which rain water (precipitation) seeps into the groundwater system. http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/pubs/gloss2.html 2. The addition to, or replenishing of, water in an aquifer. – City of Scottsdale, Arizona, Planning, Building and Zoning Reference Guide Glossary. http://www.scottsdaleaz.gov/generalplan/Glossary.asp 3. The processes of water reentering the voids in an aquifer, which causes the water table to rise in elevation. – CALFED (Joint Federal and State program to address water-related issues in the Delta of the Sacramento-San Joaquin rivers), Upper San Joaquin River Basin Storage Investigation, Phase 1 Investigation Report (Page 124 of 128, Glossary covering Pages 116-127; 4.5 MB) http://calwater.ca.gov/Tribal/CALFED_Water_Storage_Projects/San_Joaquin/Phase_I_Investigation_Report.pdf
Recharge [hydrology] – Process by which water is added to the zone of saturation to replenish an aquifer. – U.S. Geological Survey, National Handbook of Recommended Methods for Water Data Acquisition, 11.M. Glossary http://pubs.usgs.gov/chapter11/chapter11M.html
Recharge area – Generally, an area that is connected with the underground aquifer(s) by a highly porous soil or rock layer. Water entering a recharge area may travel for miles underground. http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/pubs/gloss2.html
Recharge areas – Areas in which water on the ground surface (e.g., precipitation or a water body) infiltrates downward and replenishes an aquifer. – U.S. Department of Energy (DOI) Remediation of the Moab Uranium Mill Tailings, Grand and San Juan Counties, Utah Draft Environmental Impact Statement http://www.eh.doe.gov/nepa/docs/deis/eis0355d/vol_1/chap10.pdf
Recharge rate – The quantity of water per unit time that replenishes or refills an aquifer. http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/pubs/gloss2.html
Special Use Permit – A permit issued under established laws and regulations to an individual, organization, or company for occupancy or use of National Forest System lands for some special purpose. – Bureau of Land Management "This glossary defines terms used by the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management to explain natural resource concepts and management activities specific to this final environmental impact statement and proposed plan amendment." http://www.mt.blm.gov/ea/ohv/Glossary.pdf (Page 6/198 of 7 pages; 68 KB)
Water-resources region [management] – Designated natural drainage basin or hydrologic area that contains either the drainage area of a major river or the combined drainage areas of two or more rivers; of 21 regions, 18 are in the conterminous United States, and one each are in Alaska, Hawaii, and the Caribbean. – U.S. Geological Survey, National Handbook of Recommended Methods for Water Data Acquisition, 11.M. Glossary http://pubs.usgs.gov/chapter11/chapter11M.html
Water-resources subregion [management] – The 21 designated water-resources regions of the United States are subdivided into 222 subregions. Each subregion includes that area drained by a river system, a reach of a river and its tributaries in that reach, a closed basin(s), or a group of streams forming a coastal drainage system. – U.S. Geological Survey, National Handbook of Recommended Methods for Water Data Acquisition, 11.M. Glossary http://pubs.usgs.gov/chapter11/chapter11M.html
Water right – Any vested or appropriation right under which a person may lawfully divert and use water. It is a real property right appurtenant to and severable from the land on or in connection with which the water is used; such water right passes as an appurtenance with a conveyance of the land by deed, lease, mortgage, will, or inheritance. – http://www.fws.gov/pacific/bulltrout/colkla/recovery/chapters/Chapter_1/C1_Appendix_1_Glossary.pdf (page 11/106; 116 KB)
Water use [general] – (1) In a restrictive sense, the term refers to water that is actually used for a specific purpose, such as for domestic use, irrigation, or industrial processing. (2) More broadly, water use pertains to human's interaction with and influence on the hydrologic cycle, and includes elements such as water withdrawal, distribution, consumptive use, wastewater collection, and return flow. – U.S. Geological Survey, National Handbook of Recommended Methods for Water Data Acquisition, 11.M. Glossary http://pubs.usgs.gov/chapter11/chapter11M.html
Water-Use Facilities – These are facilities and structures which include diversion and discharge structures, ditches, and pipes. – Appendix H (Biological Assessment and Evaluation for Revised Land and Resource Management Plans and Associated Oil and Gas Leasing Decisions) http://www.fs.fed.us/ngp/final/pdf_feis/Appendix_H.pdf
Waters of the state – Any ground or surface water, including saline water, within the boundaries of the state. – Trinity River Total Maximum Daily Load for Sediment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region IX, December 20, 2001. http://www.epa.gov/region9/water/tmdl/trinity/finaltrinitytmdl.pdf (Page 76 of 81 pages; 320 KB)
Waters of the United States – Waters used for navigation and all other waters such as lakes, streams (including intermittent streams), mudflats, sandflats, wetlands, sloughs, prairie potholes, wet meadows, playa lakes or natural ponds, and their tributaries. – Appendix H (Biological Assessment and Evaluation for Revised Land and Resource Management Plans and Associated Oil and Gas Leasing Decisions) http://www.fs.fed.us/ngp/final/pdf_feis/Appendix_H.pdf
Additional related reading:
More snow = water
Big Bear Grizzly, USA - 12 hours ago
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What to do with BBARWA water
Big Bear Valley News, CA - 13 hours ago
By Danielle Seckler At the Big Bear Area Regional Wastewater Agency (BBARWA) meeting held on Wednesday, Jan. 23, the topic of discussion was the water that ...
HB 400
Among other things, HB400 creates a new subdivision of the state,consisting of one member each from Valencia, Bernalillo, Sandoval, andSanta Fe counties, one city council member each from Albuquerque andSanta Fe (appointed by the mayors), the Lt. Governor, and an appointedmember to represent pueblos. This transit district board has the powerto condemn for "facilities"; to sell any property of the district toprivate companies or individuals; to vest a contract employee with allexecutive, administrative, and ministerial powers; to hire a policeforce whose members don't have to be certified until one year afterhire; the district explicitly has no oversight other than the stateauditor; can force a vote on a 1/8 % gross receipts tax on businesses byresolution, which vote is done by the counties, all at once, by majorityvote of all counties combined (meaning population centers can imposeextraterritorial tax); there is no requirement for any construction tobe according to local zoning or planning...
IT GETS BETTER.....ARRGGHHH!!!!! @#$%!!!!
It goes on, but those are the high points. I'll submit a morecomprehensive document later, but it seems that time is important as itis in committee FRIDAY. spoke with the sponsor today, and he wasunwilling to discuss amendments (that are already written by legislativecouncil services by another legislator who has decided not to offer theamendments). HOUSE TAXATION AND REVENUE COMMITTEE - EDWARD C. SANDOVAL, CHAIRMANFriday, February 1, 2008 - 1:30 P. M. - Room 317Revised: HB 342/a was addedHB 28 SPORTING EVENT REFEREE GROSS RECEIPTS (MIERA)HB 177/a MEDICAL LICENSE SUSPENSIONS & REPORTING (TRUJILLO)HB 197/a HIGHWAY PROJECT GROSS RECEIPTS TO ROAD FUND (BERRY)HB 235 ROAD PROJECTS SEVERANCE TAX BONDS (LUNDSTROM)HB 342/a URANIUM LEGACY CLEANUP ACT (LUNDSTROM)*HB 400/a COMMUTER RAIL TRANSIT DISTRICT ACT (SILVA)Please submit 25 copies of amendments or handouts to the committeesecretary atleast four hours before the committee hearing. >
Representative Edward C. Sandoval>
Joel A. AldereteRegional DirectorNM Farm & Livestock Bureau1903 Peyton Rd.Los Lunas, NM 87031joel.alderete@nmfarmbureau.org 505-866-7382505-238-1591
HERE'S AN IDEA: ENVIRONMENTAL OFFSET CREDITS
Environmentally conscious individuals are buying 'carbon credits' from green marketeers. An individual purchases carbon credit or carbon offsets to ease their guilt of driving their cars, air conditioning their homes and flying in commercial jets. The theory is buying these carbon credits offsets the carbon emissions one leaves in the atmosphere as they go about their daily lives. Critics to this new 'indulgence' tax claim carbon credits do little or nothing to combat global warming or anything of value to help clean up the environment. Revenues from the sell of carbon credits are supposed to go to renewable energy resources or orgainzations actively involved in environmental causes or clean up. Somebody's cleaning up. According to a New York Times article the carbon credit market generated $100 million in sells last years.
I came up with an idea similar to the carbon credit. I'll start selling 'environmental credits'. An environmental credit eases the consumers guilt and frustration of being shamed and harassed by environmentalists for turning on a light, running an air conditioner, driving their car, disposing of garbage, watching TV, listening to CD's, or traveling to some convention 200 miles away or taking a family convention. I'm guessing 'greenies' do none of these things. I'll take the money I accumulate in selling environmental credits and put it in the bank and use it to promote a coalition of private property rights groups fighting federal and state regulations and environmentalists. When the bank account swells to $100 million dollars I'll start investing in stuff like gold, lucrative stock schemes and buying land.
Once the coalition has established itself as a land conservancy power we will seek to educate the public on the environmental land grabs and the globalist goal of starving people off their land or imposing un-voted on UNESCO regulations on American communities. Actually, we already do that on this blog, but with $100 million in the bank we could give away t-shirts and bumper stickers. Nothing says more about an individuals committment to a cause than a bumper sticker or a t-shirt.
The price of my environmental offsets are a buck apiece; $1.00. I know there's 100 million readers of this blog so I anticipate a windfall of orders in the next few days. Janet owns a printer that works and I know she will be more than happy to print out an official looking certificate of purchase for each environmental credit sold.
Bruce Thompson, Director of NM Game and Fish Accused of Shooting Deer on Private Property and Now One of His Employees Reported Shooting Bobcat
DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATES ILLEGAL SHOOTING OF BOBCAT NEAR RATON
RATON -- The Department of Game and Fish has filed charges alleging an off-duty Department conservation officer was involved in the illegal killing of a bobcat Jan. 25 near Raton.
According to official reports, officer Levi Irwin, 26, shot and killed a bobcat from a vehicle while the bobcat was feeding on a road-killed deer within the right-of-way of N.M. 555 west of Raton. Shooting from a vehicle and shooting a protected animal in a highway right-of-way are illegal in New Mexico. Officer Irwin has not been arraigned on either charge.
Reports said officer Irwin admitted to shooting the bobcat in the right-of-way from his personal vehicle. He has been employed by the Department since September 2005.
"The Department is committed to ensuring equal application of the law regardless of who may be accused of violating wildlife laws," Department Deputy Director Bob Jenks said. "We strive to maintain the public's trust and confidence in our professional staff."
http://wildlife.state.nm.us/publications/press_releases/documents/2008/013108releases.html#bobcat
Thursday, January 31, 2008
At A Crossroads: Requests To Support This Or That Bill
We recently posted two requests to support Bills, House 565 and Senate 476. I would like to know one thing: When will we have studied the actions of our state and federal agencies enough to know that they are public servants entrusted with the health and availability of our resources and ultimately take direction from the citizens?
I know some of you will misinterpret my question and think that I am questioning the Range Improvement Task Force. I AM NOT. They are some of the best professionals out there and are good guys.
Please take the time to read the text of HB 565 and the Fiscal Impact Report at: http://legis.state.nm.us/LCS/_session.asp?chamber=H&type=++&number=565&Submit=Search&year=08
Then join the discussion. Is this what we want to spend $50K on? Would the money be better spent in taking a position of saying "no" to the State Forestry Division's "illegal regulations", via lawsuit(s), if necessary? How many "studies" will it take before we finally realize we are being stalled and bluffed?
More and more of us are coming to the realization that we are nearing a crossroads where you either believe in Constutional principals or not.
N.M. 1st State in the Rockies To Adopt Low-Emission Standards
so much for public input... NMCGA/NMWGI/NMFLC presented testimony about 8 pm.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
N.M. 1st State in the Rockies To Adopt Low-Emission Standards
By Dan Mckay/
Journal Staff Writer
New Mexico late Tuesday became the first Rocky Mountain state to embrace strict low-emission standards for new cars and trucks.
Two local air-quality boards, meeting in the Albuquerque Convention Center, voted to enact the "Clean Car" program, capping about 11 months of state work on the complex regulations.
The approval came about midnight.
The new rules already face a legal challenge. A state lawsuit filed earlier Tuesday in Las Cruces questions whether the air boards had authority to enact the "Clean Car" program.
Regardless, the regulation says new cars and trucks sold at New Mexico dealerships must meet stringent emission standards, starting with 2011 models. Used cars and older models would be exempt.
Auto dealers and other opponents said the proposal would increase car prices and reduce the selection of vehicles available in New Mexico.
Supporters say the regulation — already adopted by a dozen states — will help address global warming and reduce smog.
They said consumers will notice little difference when buying cars. The vehicles may just have different engines or other fuel-efficient technology. The regulations were first adopted in California. _
PLEASE CALL THE REPRESENTATIVES BELOW AND ASK THEM TO SUPPORT HB 565
PLEASE CALL THE REPRESENTATIVES BELOW AND ASK THEM TO SUPPORT HB 565 sponsored by Representative Brian Moore. The bill is scheduled for hearing in the House Energy & Natural Resources Committee TOMORROW (2.1.08) morning at 8:30.
The bill provides $50,000 for the Range Improvement Task Force to study the impacts of the New Mexico State Forestry Division's commercial timber regulations making pinon and juniper "commercial timber" species requiring permit for harvest on over 25 acres (with some exceptions) if the PRIVATE LAND OWNER takes any compensation in cash or in kind for resulting wood.
Not only is this a violation of private property rights, but there is a penalty of up to $1,000 and up to 1 year in county jail per violation.
ENERGY & NATURAL RESOURCES
Title Name Phone
all 505.986
Representative James Roger Madalena Chair 4417
Representative Jim R. Trujillo Vice Chair 4255
Representative Thomas A. Anderson Member 4452
Representative Paul C. Bandy Member 4214
Representative Donald E. Bratton Member 4227
Representative Candy Spence Ezzell Member 4450
Representative Miguel P. Garcia Member 4327
Representative William J. Gray Member 4211
Representative Joni Marie Gutierrez Member 4234
Representative Antonio Lujan Member 4436
Representative John Pena Member 4234
Representative Jeff Steinborn Member 4248
Representative James R.J. Strickler Member 4227
Representative Peter Wirth Member 4233
Caren Cowan
Executive Director
New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association
505.247.0584 phone
505.842.1766 fax
www.nmagriculture.org website
nmcga@nmagriculture.org email
PLEASE CALL THE SENATORS BELOW AND ASK THEM TO SUPPORT SB 476
PLEASE CALL THE SENATORS BELOW AND ASK THEM TO SUPPORT SB 476 sponsored by Senator Clinton Harden. The bill is scheduled for hearing in the Senate Conservation Committee TODAY at approximately 1:00 p.m.
The bill provides $50,000 for the Range Improvement Task Force to study the impacts of the New Mexico State Forestry Division's commercial timber regulations making pinon and juniper "commercial timber" species requiring permit for harvest on over 25 acres (with some exceptions) if the PRIVATE LAND OWNER takes any compensation in cash or in kind for resulting wood.
Not only is this a violation of private property rights, but there is a penalty of up to $1,000 and up to 1 year in county jail per violation.
SENTATE CONSERVATION COMMITTEE
Title Name Role Phone all 505.986
Senator Phil A. Griego Chair 4861
Senator James G. Taylor Vice Chair 4862
Senator William E. Sharer Ranking Member 4381
Senator Clinton D. Harden Member 4369
Senator Timothy Z. Jennings Member 4733
Senator Richard C. Martinez Member 4389
Senator William H. Payne Member 4276
Senator John Pinto Member 4835
Senator John C. Ryan Member 4373
Caren Cowan
Executive Director
New Mexico Cattle Growers' Association
505.247.0584 phone
505.842.1766 fax
www.nmagriculture.org website
nmcga@nmagriculture.org email
REPELLENT AVERSION AMONG WOLVES
Educational article from the USDA WILDLIFE SERVICES NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER and the COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES on predator aversion stimuli.
The link to this article is in the Wolves link list on the right side of the blog.
BERKLEY CA PASSES ANTI-MARINE RESOLUTIONS
http://www.moveamericaforward.org/index.php/MAF/MAFNews
"SAN FRANCISCO – The City of Berkeley, California has passed two resolutions attacking the United States Marine Corps, calling the Marines, “uninvited and unwelcome intruders in the city.”
The Berkeley City Council voted to condemn the Marines on Tuesday night (January 29th) as part of a campaign by anti-war activists to shut down a U.S. Marine Recruiting Center located in the city of Berkeley. "
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
WHAT KIND OF CARBON FOOTPRINT IS THIS EVENT LEAVING ON THE PLANET?
http://www.greenapplemusicfestival.com/soon/index.html
"The third annual Green Apple Festival, produced in partnership with Earth Day Network and presented by Chase, announces “America’s largest Earth Day celebration”– a weekend of music and environmental awareness culminating on Sunday, April 20th with eight free festivals occurring simultaneously at landmark locations across the U.S.
Approximately 500,000 people are expected to attend the all-inclusive, interactive and free public events in New York City (Central Park), Washington, DC (The National Mall), Chicago IL (Lincoln Park Zoo), Miami FL (Bicentennial Park), Denver CO (City Park), Dallas TX (Fair Park), San Francisco CA (Golden Gate Park) and Los Angeles CA (Santa Monica Pier). "
What the heck are these people thinking? Tens of thousands of people driving carbon emitting machines to this multi-regional event. How much rubber particulates are left on the highways by the tires of thousands of vehicles traveling to these events?
What about the impact of foods consumed in plastic containers? Where's all that garbage going to end up? This event follows on the heels of the Super Bowl, St. Patrick's Day, Ground Hog Day and a unseasonably cold winter punctuated by millions upon millions of cars left idling in the cold on sub-zero freezing mornings! We as a nation are doomed if we continue to allow these debaucherous gatherings to occur and leave who knows how many carbon footprints on the face of the Earth?
ARRGGHHHHH!!!! STOMP! STOMP! STOMP! SLAM! [I'm locking myself in the bathroom until somebody addresses this issue!]
PUFFER LAWS IN DENVER METRO AREA
I heard about this on the Peter Boyles Talk show/KHOW 630AM. The cities of Denver and Aurora, CO. have statutes on the books ticketing unattended vehicles running in cold weather. These vehicles have been nicknamed 'puffers' by the cops. The theory is unattended vehicles left running in the cold are 'gateway' vehicles that are stolen and used in other crimes or taken to Mexico. Some vehicles have remote starts with security devices. If the owner of the 'puffer' vehicle can show the vehicle has a remote start with a security device preventing theft of the vehicle, no ticket is written.
Alamgordo does not have a statute allowing officers to ticket owners of unattended running vehicles.
PROJECT MGRS CONDUCTING WOLF COUNT
(LINK to this story on right hand side of blog in links list)
Wolf counting in New Mexico, rabies shots, permission to land a helicopter on your land, and.....
FENCE ON BORDER KEEPS JAGUARS OUT OF U.S.
(LINK to this story on right side of blog,in links list)
The Center for Biological Diversity is unhappy about the fence being built to keep illegals from crossing from Mexico into the United States.
FOREST GUARDIANS/SINAPU MERGE
(LINK to this story on right side of blog in links list)
The Forest Guardians and the Boulder,CO based wolf lovers group have combined to form Wild Earth Guardians.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE UNTED NATIONS?
Let's not forget the United Nations and UNESCOs desire to be our new neighbor.
So what is going on with the United Nations since we last commented on their World Heritage Site progress in Otero county? World wide,the UN is sponsoring a number of initiatives in Iraq for the children and for development in that war-torn nation. Watch out Al Queda...a buffer zone designation might hamper your ability to blow stuff up. I found a news release from the UN about non-governmental organizations directing UN policy. The NGOs want to nominate other NGOs for recognized status by the UN. I guess an NGO has to be voted 'in' by other NGOs for this special status.
Is it like the Moose Lodge...secret Moose ceremonies followed by drunken debauchery before an early morning charitable event pancake breakfast? I digress. I picked one of the organizations nominated by other NGOs out of pure curiosity. This organization had nothing to do with World Heritage Sites, blue helicopters in Otero county, or lawn gnomes dancing in the Otero county courthouse proclaiming Alamogordo a City of Universal Peace. I just picked one. The organization I picked is called YACHAY WASI. This NGO is in Peru. Yachay Yasi advocates for the preservation on INCA culture. Okay...nothing threatening to private property owners in Otero county, unless you're an ancient Mayan trying to avoid detection by the Inca hords scouring the jungle for slaves. I looked into who Yachay Wasi is. This is what I found:
Luis Delgado Hurtado: photographer and member of several United Nations commissions on indigenous peoples rights and World Heritage conventions. Good for him!
Marie-Danielle Samuel: Born and raised in Paris, France. Part of her bio reads: "Marie-Danielle Samuel is Main Representative for Yachay Wasi at the United Nations." She's a lobbyist for NGOs, in this case Yachay Wasi. Bless her heart!
Eliane Lacroix-Hopson: Her main topic is the Harmony of Science and Religion, one Bahá'í principle, and how it relates to Native American spirituality. She volunteered until 2000 as UN Representative for the International Romani Union; 11 million Roma around the world wrongly known as Gypsies. She is the mother of Marie-Danielle Samuel.
So that's only a small part of what's going on in the UN around the world today.
For the Big Picture of what the UN is doing everywhere...go to:
http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2008/ecosoc6322.doc.htm
ORF hasn't forgotten and isn't napping.
THE FEDERAL AUTHORITY OF THE UNITED STATES
The authority of the Congress and the United States is limited to the District of Columbia and the territories of the United States, not the sovereign 50 states, each of which has its own state constitution and authority.
There is a very simple yet profound way to determine
if you inhabit a State of the Union, or not:
Do you inhabit land represented
by a U.S. Senator and a U.S. Representative?
If so, then you inhabit a State of the Union.
There are no Senators or Representatives elected
by or from any federal enclaves, territories or possessions!!
... [T]he "canon of construction which teaches that legislation of Congress,
unless a contrary intent appears, is meant to apply
only within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States ...."
[U.S. v. Spelar, 338 U.S. 217, 222]
[70 S.Ct. 10 (1949)]
http://laws.findlaw.com/us/338/217.html :
1 USC § 204
1 USC § 204. Codes and Supplements as evidence of the laws of United States and District of Columbia; citation of Codes and Supplements
In all courts, tribunals, and public offices of the United States, at home or abroad, of the District of Columbia, and of each State, Territory, or insular possession of the United States—
(a) United States Code.— The matter set forth in the edition of the Code of Laws of the United States current at any time shall, together with the then current supplement, if any, establish prima facie the laws of the United States, general and permanent in their nature, in force on the day preceding the commencement of the session following the last session the legislation of which is included: Provided, however, That whenever titles of such Code shall have been enacted into positive law the text thereof shall be legal evidence of the laws therein contained, in all the courts of the United States, the several States, and the Territories and insular possessions of the United States. (b) District of Columbia Code.— The matter set forth in the edition of the Code of the District of Columbia current at any time shall, together with the then current supplement, if any, establish prima facie the laws, general and permanent in their nature, relating to or in force in the District of Columbia on the day preceding the commencement of the session following the last session the legislation of which is included, except such laws as are of application in the District of Columbia by reason of being laws of the United States general and permanent in their nature.
(c) District of Columbia Code; citation.— The Code of the District of Columbia may be cited as “D.C. Code”.
(d) Supplements to Codes; citation.— Supplements to the Code of Laws of the United States and to the Code of the District of Columbia may be cited, respectively, as “U.S.C., Sup. ”, and “D.C. Code, Sup. ”, the blank in each case being filled with Roman figures denoting the number of the supplement.
(e) New edition of Codes; citation.— New editions of each of such codes may be cited, respectively, as “U.S.C., ed.”, and “D.C. Code, ed.”, the blank in each case being filled with figures denoting the last year the legislation of which is included in whole or in part.
PROTECT AMERICA'S WILDLIFE ACT of 2007
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Compare the sizes on the animals in these two pictures. The picture on the left is of 200+lb. wolf shot in Idaho. The picture is copied to this blog from the SAVE OUR ELK website. The picture on the right is of Rep. George Miller's (CA) photo-op, announcing the Protect American's Wildlife Act. Note the placement of individuals and a much smaller animal, probably 50 lbs. max, which is probably a hybrid wolf-dog. The only woman in the picture is holding the 'wolf's' leash. Check out the guy behind Miller...talk about a defensive posture. Point being...the wolf the man is holding up in the left picture is a much larger animal, 4X, that of the animal in the picture on the right. We would love to meet the person who could put a leash on a 200+ lb. wolf that was not habituized to humans.
Protect America's Wildlife Act of 2007 (Introduced in House)
HR 3663 IH
110th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 3663
To amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to establish additional prohibitions on shooting wildlife from aircraft, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 25, 2007
Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California (for himself, Mr. DINGELL, and Mr. DICKS) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Natural Resources
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A BILL
To amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to establish additional prohibitions on shooting wildlife from aircraft, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the `Protect America's Wildlife Act of 2007'.
SEC. 2. AMENDMENT TO PROHIBITIONS.
Section 13(a) of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742j-1(a)) is amended--
(1) by striking `or' after the semicolon at the end of each of paragraphs (1) and (2);
(2) by striking paragraph (3) and inserting the following:
`(3) shoots or attempts to shoot any bird, fish, or other animal before 3:00 a.m. following a day on which the person has traveled by aircraft other than on a regularly scheduled commercial aircraft;
`(4) knowingly participates in using an aircraft for any purpose referred to in paragraph (1), (2), or (3); or
`(5) knowingly violates any regulation issued under this Act;'; and
(3) in the matter following paragraph (5) (as added by this section) by striking `$5,000' and inserting `$50,000'.
SEC. 3. EXCEPTIONS TO PROHIBITIONS.
Section 13(b) of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742j-1(b)) is amended by adding at the end the following:
`(3) Except as provided in paragraph (5), a State may not authorize or undertake any action otherwise prohibited under this Act, for the purpose of increasing any game population or for the purpose of sport hunting.
`(4) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a State may shoot any wolf, bear, or other predator from an aircraft to prevent a biological emergency, if--
`(A) the head of the State's fish and wildlife agency determines, based on the best scientific data available, that a biological emergency is imminent and there is no other means available to eliminate the biological emergency;
`(B) the shooting is conducted by an officer or employee of the State fish and wildlife agency or of the United States Department of Agriculture;
`(C) the shooting occurs only in the specific geographical area where the biological emergency exists; and
`(D) the shooting removes only the minimum number of predators necessary to eliminate the biological emergency.
`(5) The Secretary of the Interior may authorize an action that is referred to in paragraph (1) to prevent the extinction of any species that is listed as an endangered species or threatened species under section 4(c) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533(c)), if the Secretary determines that there is no other means available to address the threat of extinction.'.
SEC. 4. DEFINITION OF BIOLOGICAL EMERGENCY.
Section 13(c) of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742j-1(c)) is amended to read as follows:
`(c) As used in this section:
`(1) The term `aircraft' means any contrivance used for flight in the air.
`(2) The term `biological emergency' means an irreversible decline in a wildlife population caused by a predator population.'.
SEC. 5. CITIZEN SUITS.
Section 13 of the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 742j-1) is amended by adding at the end the following:
`(g) Any person may commence a civil action on the person's own behalf--
`(1) against any person, including the United States and any other governmental instrumentality or agency, to the extent permitted by the eleventh amendment to the Constitution, who is alleged to be in violation of this Act; or
`(2) against the Secretary if there is alleged a failure of the Secretary to perform any act or duty under this Act that is not discretionary with the Secretary.'.
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:H.R.3663:
COSPONSERS: http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:HR03663:@@@P
H.R.3663
Title: To amend the Fish and Wildlife Act of 1956 to establish additional prohibitions on shooting wildlife from aircraft, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Rep Miller, George [CA-7] (introduced 9/25/2007) Cosponsors (111)
Latest Major Action: 9/27/2007 Referred to House subcommittee. Status: Referred to the Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Oceans.
Gov Track rates Rep. Miller:
Miller is a radical Democrat according to GovTrack's own analysis of bill sponsorship. (Where do these labels come from?)
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/person.xpd?id=400278
UTAH CLAIMS OWNERSHIP OF ROADS THAT CROSS FEDERAL LANDS
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_8096902
Into the fray
Utah guv stakes a claim on roads
By Patty Henetz
The Salt Lake Tribune
01/28/2008
Employing a 2-year-old state law for the first time, the Governor's Office is claiming ownership of roads that cross federal lands as a way to keep them open to off-highway recreation and oil and gas drilling.
The maneuver, which relies on a bill sponsored by Kanab Republican Rep. Mike Noel that passed during the 2003 and 2006 legislative sessions, could be a tidy way to skirt federal law.
Or it could set up yet another expensive series of courtroom fights and ratchet up the New West's already intractable civil war over wilderness and access to some of Utah's most beautiful wildlands.
The state law allows counties to record the roads on their master land documents. Federal agencies, organizations and other members of the public have 60 days to protest the action in state court. If no one protests, the county assumes ownership of the right of way.
In its first action under the 2006 Noel bill, the state's Public Lands Policy Coordination Office has sent a list of 60 Class B roads to Box Elder County for recording, and will do the same with 23 more counties by mid-summer, said coordinator John Harja. Salt Lake, Weber, Davis and Cache counties have opted out of the program, and Morgan County doesn't have any affected public lands, he said.
"We're recording [our] belief we have a property interest," Harja said. "We are putting the [U.S. Bureau of Land Management] and the rest of the world on notice."
Heidi McIntosh, conservation director for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and an attorney, expressed some wariness about possible legal precedents the state's new efforts could set. During 2006 House floor debate, Rep. Jacki Buskupski, D-Salt Lake City, called the bill an "open invitation to further litigation."
Glenn Carpenter, manager of the BLM's Salt Lake City field office, acknowledged the arguments but wasn't keen to be drawn into the politics of the state's action.
Carpenter was a defendant in a federal court case filed by an OHV group, the Utah Shared Access Alliance, over his decision to close portions of Box Elder County to OHVs in 1999 to protect critical deer and sage grouse habitat. Shared Access Alliance, defeated in district and appellate courts, tried again with the U.S. Supreme Court, but the court refused the case.
Carpenter said he was aware of the 60-road list Harja's office sent to Box Elder County in mid-December, but had no plans to protest. Besides, he said, the U.S. government is sovereign. "We're bound by federal law," he said.
For now, the lists focus on Class B roads, which are graded, graveled, open to general use and generally noncontroversial. Harja said he expected to have all the B roads by mid-summer, and then start on Class D roads.
That's when hostilities between wilderness advocates, energy developers and OHV users could erupt in court, McIntosh said.
Class D roads - which include recognizable two-tracks, but also meandering livestock paths, abandoned pathways oil and gas drillers once used for seismic exploration and even narrow trails across creeks - are the real front lines in the access war, she said.
"People are going to be furious," McIntosh said. "What's driving this is wilderness. That's something the counties have long tried to fight."
Wilderness designation depends in part on the public lands' roadlessness. In opposing wilderness, counties point to generations of driving the disputed byways as a way to continue motorized access on federal lands.
Road claims rest on Revised Statute 2477, a Civil War-era mining law that granted rights of way across public land. Congress repealed the law in 1976, but grandfathered in existing claims. In 2005, a federal appeals court ruled that such ownership claims were dictated by state law. In Utah, that means proving the road was in continual use for 10 years prior to 1976.
The counties have gotten road-claim help from the state, which through the now-defunct Constitutional Defense Council and now the Public Lands Policy office, has spent $9.6 million since 2001 in legal and other fees on road claims, according to Harja. The money, allocated by the Legislature, comes from royalties paid on oil and gas drilling on state land.
Even though public money has supported the Public Lands office's information gathering, and even though the information is being used in both federal lawsuits and the state claims on behalf of the counties, Harja's office won't make the work public before the lists are sent to the recorders. And under a confidentiality agreement crafted in 2000, participating counties are forbidden from sharing the information with the public.
Such evidence was part of a federal lawsuit seeking ownership of old roads across federal land in six rural counties that the state recently withdrew.
Roger Fairbanks, the assistant attorney general who oversees R.S. 2477 claims, said the state abandoned Utah v. United States because the six Class B roads at issue in Beaver, Box Elder, Emery, Uintah, Washington and Wayne counties weren't really threatened with closure.
SUWA agrees with the decision, but will continue to fight the state's federal lawsuits to claim roads in Canyonlands National Park, the San Rafael Swell and the Deep Creek Mountains.
Fairbanks said the state doesn't seek to bulldoze the areas. "We don't want to destroy the environment," he said. "On the other hand, we don't think roads should be closed."
In the west desert Deep Creek Mountains, Snake Valley residents want to drive in Granite Canyon, where about a mile of the road is in a wilderness study area near Ibahpah Creek. "All the locals want to do is open the road to Camp Ethel," Fairbanks said.
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Howard Hutchinson
Executive Director
Coalition of Arizona/New Mexico Counties
P.O. Box 125
Glenwood, New Mexico 88039
Phone 575-539-2709 Please Note New Area Code
aznmc@earthlink.net
"Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another--too often ending in the loss of both." Tryon Edwards,1809-1894
"A principle cannot be compromised, for once compromised it is actually abandoned and no principle exist." Christine Smith, December 13, 2007
Monday, January 28, 2008
BIG BAD WOLF AND THE ILLEGALS MEET LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD
The Big Bad Wolf snuck into Grandma's house,while Grandma was away at Branson, MO.
Grandma's a big Andy Williams fan. Big Bad Wolf liked living in Grandma's house.
He signed up for Medicaid, Social Security and AARP. He thought he'd just hang out there until Little Red Riding Hood came to visit.
One day two illegals showed up and moved in. They claimed they loved America and had indigenous rights to Grandma's house. They told Big Bad Wolf he could stay as long as he shared his federal entitlements with them. 
Big Bad Wolf claimed he was more indigenous and even showed them a picture of one of his ancestors: CANIS LUPISPITHICUS. This ancient Big Bad Wolf roamed the ancestoral jungles of New Mexico 25-30,000 years ago. Big Bad Wolf told the illegals to scram!
The illegals countered claiming their ancestors were here 400,000 years ago. They said their ancient ancestor INDIGENOUSPITHICUS crossed the border from ancient Mexico into what is now New Mexico long before Big Bad Wolf's ancestor did.
Big Bad Wolf and the illegals got into a fight, right there in Grandma's house!
In the midst of all the commotion, Little Red Riding Hood burst through the door!
Guns a blazing, she caught the Big Bad Wolf and the illegals by surprise!
Little Red Riding Hood is back...and with a vengence!!!
To be continued......
Saturday, January 26, 2008
BOOKS ON WOLVES
Recommended reading on wolves.
Wolves in Russia: Anxiety Through the Ages by Will Graves (Author), Valerius Geist (Editor) 
Wolves: Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation Edited by L.David Mech and Luigi Boitani
(photo of book cover from davemech.org)
Return of the Mexican Gray Wolf: Back to the Blue
by Bobbie Holaday
A Case History of Wolf-Human Encounters in Alaska and Canada
by Mark E. McNay
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Wildlife Technical Bulletin 13: 2002
And my book:
Friday, January 25, 2008
Ol' COMRADE TED KENNEDY REACHES OUT TO COMMIES
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200610/NAT20061020b.htmlIn his book, which came out this week, Kengor focuses on a KGB letter written at the height of the Cold War that shows that Sen. Edward Kennedy (D-Mass.) offered to assist Soviet leaders in formulating a public relations strategy to counter President Reagan's foreign policy and to complicate his re-election efforts.
I CAN ONLY ASSUME THIS GUY’S A LIAR
On Dec. 15, 2007, I posted, DETRIMENTAL RELIANCE AS TACTIC TARGETING RANCHERS, on the blog. The post was about an article I stumbled upon in my research on wolves. A fellow named Gene Ladd had authored a book titled: AMBER WAVES OF GAIN. I found Mr. Ladd and his book at http://www.familyfarmer.org/awg13.pdf.
In this book, Mr. Ladd describes an incident he alleges occurred in 1999, in Santa Fe.
According to Mr. Ladd, the Minutemen placed a pipe bomb in the mailbox of the Forest Guardians and blew out the window of another environmental group with a shotgun.
I contacted the Santa Fe Police Department with Mr. Ladd’s story. A high ranking official of the Santa Fe PD, with 20 years service on the department said he didn’t recall such an incident. He surely would have remembered a pipe bomb placed in the controversial green organization’s mailbox.
Mr. Ladd went on to portray the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau as a militant organization intent on fueling anti-environmental hatred among ranchers. Mr. Ladd describes a training manual from the New Mexico Department of Public Safety that describes the New Mexico Farm and Livestock Bureau as dangerous and capable of potential terrorist activities. Mr. Ladd goes on to claim the Farm Bureau pressured the New Mexico Department of Public Safety to withdraw the manual; which according to Mr. Ladd, the DPS did.
I sent Mr. Ladd’s allegations to the DPS headquarters in Santa Fe. Today I received a letter from the assistant director refuting Mr. Ladd’s claims and saying the incident never happened. The assistant director also said no such manual depicting the Farm Bureau as a terrorist organization was never printed.
I searched the FBI eco-terrorism records and found no such pipe bomb incident in Santa Fe in 1999.
Around the time all this was happening an individual who started a forest fire was arrested in Santa Fe county.
Mr. Ladd assigns the pipe bomb incident to this individual and places him as a member of the Minutemen. I asked Janet White, co-administrator of this blog and Minutemen member if she knew of this incident or the name I gave her. She did not. She gave the information to Bob Wright, Minutemen head honcho for New Mexico. He has the original roles of who signed up in the early days of the organization. Bob said the Minutemen did not exist in 1999 and the name of the guy Mr. Ladd says was a member is not on any of the roles. The guy arrested for the forest fire and Mr. Ladd’s terrorist was never a Minutemen member.
I can only opine that Mr. Ladd is a liar and a passionate if irresponsible green advocate who seeks to advance the green agenda at any cost. I think his book is either out of print, didn’t sell, or has been pulled from shelves. I couldn’t order it from Amazon, ebay or Half.com. The ‘farm’ website above still sells the hack job, but I declined to place an order. The night I stumbled upon the book was the night of my all night poker game and I needed my jar full of quarters and dimes. Sorry Gene, I won’t support a liar and a hack.
Message Re Heather Wilson & Alamogordo City Commission Candidates
We received this message and edited it to hide the identity of the writer. Unfortunately, we felt the need to take this precaution.
Heather Wilson was asked publicly if she would vote to keep the UN out of Otero County and she basically said there was no reason for them to be here, they have no jurisdiction and yes, they don't need to have any business here.
Also, Heather Wilson was made aware of our needs for water.
On another note, I have visited with Bill Brogan. He and his lovely wife told me people are "scared" to come out in support of him because they're afraid of Ron Griggs. Now, I ask you, besides his business, what in tarnation could Griggs have/do/say that would cause people to fear him?
I gave Brogan about 20 names of folks I know who live in the golf course area that he might get in touch with. A few I am certain would definitely want new blood on the commission.
Any ideas who might be willing to step up and support him publicly?
I like Heredia too, and have spoken to him. I feel like he could make some good waves.
Now if we could just get others interested in case the two who will take office do so via apathy-infected-pseudo-intellectually-uninvolved-so-called-Americans. Anyway, I hear that the two (Brogan and Heredia) who will do the job plan to attend the city candidate forum. I am looking forward to it.
Feb 5, 6:30 PM, Civic Center. Thank you for getting the word out.
NAIS: NEBRASKA BILL WOULD FORESTALL LIVESTOCK PREMISES REGISTRATION PROGRAM
January 25, 2008
NE Bill Stops Mandatory Premises ID
Alert - State, News — walterj 6:06 am
I don’t have details on the bill yet. If someone finds it please post a link to the text of the bill in the comments below.
Nebraska bill would forestall livestock premises registration program
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) - Livestock producers couldn’t be forced by the state to participate in premises identification programs, under a bill (LB632) that got first-round approval.
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The federal government doesn’t require participation in the program, and neither does the state. But some cattle producers worry that under current state law they could be forced to register their premises.
-KPTM News
http://nonais.org/index.php/2008/01/25/ne-bill-stops-mandatory-premises-id/
MY COMMENTS IN THE DENVER POST TO WOLF REINTRODUCTION
http://neighbors.denverpost.com/viewtopic.php?p=113562#113562
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I suggest a thorough study of all aspects of wolf reintroduction into a region where the wolf has been eradicated. The Otero Residents Forum is located in New Mexico does just that. (http://oteroresidentsforum.blogpost.com) The forum offers several links and essays on wolf reintroduction. I would also encourage residents of mountain communities adjoining Rocky Mountain National Park to look at the zip codes of the individuals who advocate for wolf reintroduction. Do advocates for wolf reintroduction live near Rocky Mountain National Park? Representatives of the Fish and Wildlife Service gave a presentation in our town in southern New Mexico, about their proposed wolf release program. I asked all of them where they lived. The FWS employees all lived in Albuquerque or Santa Fe. I wrote letters to the editors and did a radio show interview advocating for wolf release in the counties and forests where those two cities are located. The suggestion for wolf release in their home counties was not well received. If it was such a great idea, why not release the wolf in their home counties? Population? The FWS opined there were too many mountain communities in Bernalillo and Santa Fe counties for wolf release.
We have populations on the desert and in the mounatins in southern New Mexico. Tourism? Threats to campers, mountain bikers and tourists were cited as reasons not to release wolves in those counties. We rely on tourism just as much as the northern New Mexico counties do. Livestock? Wolf predation on livestock in southern New Mexico has been disasterous. Don't believe the Defenders of Wildlife compensation claims. For the most part...their compensation program is a publicity gimmick for wolf lovers. Elk and deer populations have diminished because of wolf predation. Family pets, horses, and cattle have been killed by wolves. Anyone ask Ted Turner about wolf reintroduction? He owns the Vermijo ranch, 580,000 acres where he grazes cattle, harvests timeber and drills for natural gas. We can't graze on public lands in the forest anymore. Logging has been banned and there is no drilling for natural gas; all stopped by environmental litigation. Yet Ted Turner donates to these environmental groups. Does that tell you anything about the trust fund babies driving the environmental movement, to include wolf reintroduction in other people's backyards?
Rural residents in Catron county have erected sturdy wooden structures witnin high chain link enclosures to protect children waiting for the school bus, from wolves seen stalking children on rural roads. Again...check out the zip codes of those individuals advocating for wolf release. Do they live within the communities to be affected, or do they own a coffee table book about the spiritual and beautiful wolf 'culture'?
Read the article by Jamolov Hakimova, featured on the Otero Residents Forum. Mr. Hakimova is from Uzbekistan. If you're really passionate about wolf reintroduction, pick up a copy of "Wolves in Russia: Anxiety Through the Ages" by Will Graves. Do the research before you advocate for the release of a major carnivore in someone elses backyard. You owe that to your neighbors."
Thursday, January 24, 2008
OTERO COUNTY COMMISSIONERS DRAW LINE IN THE WHITE SAND
At the regular meeting of the Otero County Commission, Thursday, January 24, 2008, Comissioners McGinn, Moore and Nivison directed County Attorney Dan Bryant and staff to send a letter of a 60-day notice of intent to sue to the Department of Interior if White Sands National Monument is not removed from consideration as a U.N. World Heritage Site.
Furthermore, the Otero County Commissioners directed that a citation be issued to those person(s) in violation of Otero County Ordinances cited in the Otero County Ordinance Opposing U.N. World Heritage Site Designation in Otero County.
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
As Promised on Mike Haymes Show, Text of HB 9
For a draft of the House Bill 9 go to http://legis.state.nm.us/lcs/_session.asp?chamber=H&type=++&number=9&Submit=Search&year=08
Sponsored by Mimi Stewart, Dem., Bernalillo County
Capital Phone #505-986-4840
E-mail address mstewart@osogrande.com
Consumer and Public Affairs Committee Capital Phone E-mail Address
Rep. Gail Chasey, Chair, Dem. 505-986-4844 gailchasey@msn.com
Rep. Antonio Maestas, Vice Chair, Dem. 505-986-4464 antonio@moejustice.com
Rep. Thomas Anderson, Rep. 505-986-4452 kb5ysg@arrl.net
Rep. Nora Espinosa, Rep. 505-986-4221 noralee@cableone.net
Rep. Rick Miera, Dem. 505-986-4852 rbmiera@comcast.net
Rep. Al Park, Dem. 505-986-4411 alpark.nm@gmail.com
Rep. W.C. Williams, Rep. 505-986-4454 no e-mail reported
Local Representatives to contact
Rep. Joni Marie Gutierrez, Dem. 505-986-4234 jonig@zianet.com
Rep. Mary Helen Garica, Dem. 505-986-4435 maryhelen.garcia@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Antonio, Lujan, Dem. 505-986-4436 alujan@zianet.com
Rep. Andy Nunez, Dem. 505-986-4423 annunez@zianet.com
Rep. Jeff Steinborn, Dem. 505-986-4248 jeff.Steinborn@nmlegis.gov
Rep. Joseph Cervantes, Dem. 505-986-4249 cervanteslaw@zianet.com
Rep. Nathan Cote, Dem. 505-986-4234 ncote@zianet.com
TENTATIVE WORLD HERITAGE SITE STATUS INCLUDES WHITE SANDS
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has included White Sands National Monument on its Tentative World Heritage Site list. The ‘tentative’ designation does not mean White Sands is now a World Heritage Site. It simply means White Sands, which is located in Otero county, is being considered for nomination and designation as a World Heritage Site.
I was reading on the World Heritage Alliance website and came across some of the same old players we’ve bumped into when researching environmentalists’ intent on implementing more regulation in New Mexico. The World Heritage Site land grab gets its legs from such elaborate think tanks like the UN Foundation. Part-time New Mexico resident, Ted Turner donated $1 billion to create the UN Foundation. Remember, Ted Turner owns the 580,000 acres Vermilljo Ranch in the northern part of the state.
Ted grazes cattle and buffalo, harvests timber and drill for natural gas on his ranch.
The UN Foundation passes its agenda on to the World Heritage Alliance (WHA). The WHA advocates for increased ‘sustainable’ tourism, protecting World Heritage Sites, and influencing communities adjoining World Heritage Sites for the benefit and protection of the designated site. Take the time to read the WHA goals and recommendations on their website: http://www.worldheritagealliance.org/press_releases/pr_112807.htm
“Also in 2008, the UNESCO World Heritage Centre will launch a major new initiative on World Heritage and Sustainable Tourism, specifically targeted toward fostering a closer working relationship between the conservation community and the travel and tourism industry. Broad consultation among stakeholders will be used to develop policy guidance and a charter of good practices on the premise that when well managed, tourism can contribute to the conservation of sites and promote sustainable development of local communities.”
“The World Heritage Centre coordinates its activities with those of other multilateral cultural and environmental agreements, UNESCO cultural and natural heritage conventions and recommendations, to ensure complementarity and synergy. The Centre also identifies and implements regional and thematic programmes, and mobilizes additional financial and technical resources to ensure the conservation and management of World Heritage properties in partnership with other UN agencies, development banks, conservation NGOs, research institutions, foundations and the corporate sector. For more information, visit http://whc.unesco.org.”
I came away from the World Heritage Alliance site with two impressions.
One: Alamogordo will become an ‘international’ tourist town, complete with international facilities, more traffic, more out of town investment and all of this in the name of ‘sustainable’ tourism.
Or two: Sustainable tourism means buffer zone creation of the city and county will put a cap on visitation, manipulation of local zoning ordinances, and restrictions on private property. Add to this the collateralization of national landmarks.
NO MORE WEEKLY READER...NOW ITS A GREEN READER
The New York State of Department of Environmental Conservation is publishing a green magazine for kids called 'Conservation for Kids'. Sounds innocent and educational...right? It is educational. Check out the teachers workshops and follow those links. More green modeling for the future.
http://www.dec.ny.gov/education/40248.html
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR OF URBAN ELITIST AGGRESSION
Look at this blog page and ask yourself what all these postings and links have in common. The continuity of this information reveals a well constructed and orchestrated agenda of control. Urban elitists are actively working to enforce their vision of a world governed by one ideology. The dream of one-world government, population depletion, the natural world as ‘god’ over mankind, and complete destruction of national sovereignty are all included in these links and articles on this page. In southern New Mexico the manipulation of federal agencies by green hysteria is evident in the wolf release program. Conservationists and coffee table book environmentalists can’t invade the West with armed environmental zealots to cleanse the land of ranchers and livestock.
They release an army of wolves to begin their ‘environmental’ strategy. Wolf lovers and the federal puppets whose strings are pulled by trust fund babies living opulent lifestyles fully expect livestock, pets and yes, humans, to be killed by wolves as part of their agenda to return the land to its pre-civilization occupation state. Those of us living in the rural areas of America are expected to be sacrificed, removed, and exterminated as part of the globalist agenda to cleanse and control North America. I’m not reaching for extremes. I’m putting it mildly. From World Heritage Site designation, to wolf release, to carbon footprint scams, to wilderness bills, to the dehumanization of ranching families; the agenda is clear, in our midst, and vulnerable. Their ideology is vulnerable because they rely on ignorance and apathy. It is our job to inform, educate, reveal, expose, challenge, and defeat the globalist, junk science environmental hysteria and anti-American agendas. The new American Civil War of Urban Elitist Aggression is being waged here and now. GET INVOLVED! ARM YOURSELF WITH THE FACTS AND TAKE ACTION!
Saturday, January 19, 2008
INTERNATIONAL INTERNET COMMUNITY AGENCY
Are you spending too much time on You Tube, My Space.com and the internet in general? The International Internet Community Agency says you are. The IICA wants to filter what Americans can view on the internet and tax time connected to the web. The proposed IICA regulations would allow filtering and censorship of what the international agency considers politically or morally objectionable internet material in the United States.
The head of the IICA, Yin Tzn Lo, former head of the Chinese Ministry of Internet Information, objects to current unregulated access to the internet Americans enjoy. Lo argues for stringent internet restraints claiming "Americans benefit from an intellectual advantage" via unfettered use of the internet. IICA goals include a level playing field for all peoples of the world.
The IICA is shopping proposed legislation around Washington DC with the hopes of convincing willing sponsors to take the bill to the Senate. Lo says he has received favorable responses to the IICA proposal from several elected officials. The bill would regulate domestic internet content through a government agency and, what is released out of the U.S. into cyberspace. Under the proposed legislation Internet users worldwide will start to see a monthly charge on their phone bills, or internet provider bill, taxing their time spent on the internet.
Opponents to the IICA proposal charge this international regulation is a violation of American’s Constitutional rights and a threat to the security and sovereignty of the United States. Several nations already monitor and regulate internet content.
What sane American would promote an international body regulating internet content and usage fees in the United States? Not many. And I would agree.
The above story is fiction. I made it up There is no IICA. If you began to feel angry or violated by the suggestion that an international body could regulate what you do on the internet and at what price, then good. You should have no problem understanding why citizens of Otero county would oppose U.N.World Heritage Site designation of White Sands National Monument.
At least the fake IICA and its proposed legislation had to go to Washington DC to be voted on by elected officials. U.N.World Heritage Site designation does not. Now, please enjoy the freedom of surfing the web while it is still free and uncensored.
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