The Wildlands Project
The Wildlands Project is the master
plan behind the radical environmentalist agenda. Our previous
administration was implementing it via a Memorandum of Understanding
between the US Fish and Wildlife Service and their agency counterparts
in Mexico and Canada.
Even though we have a new
administration, the Wildlands Project is still being pursued by agency
personnel remaining within the agencies. They continue to use
the Project as their basis to justify placing over half of
the land mass in the United States into wilderness areas to
protect "biodiversity". These areas will eventually be
connected by biological corridors and off-limits to humans.
Surrounding these wilderness areas
will be buffer zones, which will be strictly controlled, with limited
human uses.
In keeping with Al Gore's plan
to "reorganize society," the remaining one-fourth of the
land area will be "sustainable communities".
Surrounded by wilderness, these islands of human habitation will be areas
where people can be corralled and managed in such a way as "to
rescue" the environment.
This transformation of our nation is
the work of the President's Council on Sustainable Development and
Environmental Quality. Working through the Interior Department
and other federal management agencies, plus hundreds of environmental
groups (NGOs) this federal land grab is camouflaged by a wide variety
of programs including; the American Heritage Rivers, Scenic Byways,
Cultural Heritage Areas, Historic Landmarks, Biosphere Reserves,
Wildlife Reserves, and others too numerous to write.
One of the common characteristics of
core wilderness areas and the interconnecting corridors is the absence
of roads. The vision of the Wildlands Project is "a North
American wilderness without roads, wilderness unbroken by asphalt or
gravel or bare stripped earth, uninvaded by industrial machinery or
recreational motor vehicles."
A way to incorporate private property
into the biosphere reserves is now being designed and implemented.
The plan is to redefine "harm" by claiming "an
owner of land has no absolute and unlimited right to change the
essential natural character of his land so as to use it for a purpose
for which it was unsuited in its natural state."
Fortunately, a series of US Supreme
Court rulings have decided in favor of the landowner thus setting back
the hopes of the radical fringe environmentalists.
The Endangered Species Act is another
device used by NGOs to promote Wildlands Project objectives.
Rather than conserve the truly threatened species, the radicals claim
many species are facing extinction, and use the Act to promote their
political and social agendas.
The central office of the Wildlands
Project is located in Tucson, Arizona. It serves as a
coordination point for implementing the project. The two main
activists behind this agenda is Dave Foreman and Dr. Reed Noss.
Foreman, founder of Earth First!, is
a director for both the Sierra Club, and the New Mexico Wilderness
Alliance. He developed the Wildlands Project concept in his book
Confessions of an Eco-Warrior. He also authored the book
"Eco Defense" a terrorist training manual that teaches the
reader how to destroy industrial equipment, stock tanks, fences and
dams, among other modern inventions.
Dr. Reed Noss' Wildlands Project
Model is the principle design for biodiversity protection in the
United Nation's Global Biodiversity Assessment. Dr. Noss is
currently a scientific consultant to the Department of Interior.
The founders and promoters of the
Project envision the North American Continent as a single biodiversity
reserve. Foreman describes it as a "vast landscape without
roads, dams, motorized vehicles, powerlines, overflights, or other
artifacts of civilization".
The Wildlands Project is a global
mission outlined in a single document - Agenda 21. One of our
best weapons is knowledge and community action. Ask your county
commissioners, city councils, and civic groups to pass resolutions
refusing implementation in your area of Wilderness Areas, American
Heritage Rivers, Historic Landmarks and other programs in kind.
We must stop this agenda for the sake of future generations.
The address for the Wildlands Project
is 1955 West Grant Road, Suite 148A, Tucson, AZ 85745.
Telephone: (520)884-0875.
