SB 5318 – Yukon to Yellowstone agenda

SB 5318 – Yukon to Yellowstone agenda<= /b>

SB 5318 commits the State to follow this movement whic= h has a very definite agenda.

“Yukon to Yellowstone conservation initiative” aka Y2Y<= /p>
http://www.y2y.net/

Wilderness Society – a leader in Y2Y – the= ir vision

http://www.w= ilderness.org/WhereWeWork/Montana/y2y.cfm

Aldo Leopold – founder of Wilderness Society and leader of this environmental movement.&nbs= p; May have been influenced by theosophy

h= ttp://www.religionandnature.com/ern/sample/Meine--Ouspensky.pdf

Although best known for this work, Ouspensky was in=

his own right a leading Theosophist who was at the cente= r

of the philosophical and occult subcultures that flouri= shed

in pre-revolutionary St. Petersbu= rg. His pre-Gurdjeffian

publications, especially Tertium Organum, synthesized

and popularized late nineteenth-century Russian mystical

and literary traditions in early twentieth-century Russia.

Written in 1911 and published in New York in 1922= it

quickly became a bestseller and gave him a worldwide

reputation. Outside Russian artistic circles, it also influenced

many American writers, including Jean Toomer,

Waldo Frank, Gorham Munson, and Kenneth Burke, and

through them modern literature. Most significantly, his

notion of “the living world is an entire organism” shaped

Aldo Leopold’s important ethical argument for conservation

(Ouspensky 1949: 299).

The Wilderness Society and Dave Forman (ties to Earth = First)

http= ://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/271

Article on Y2Y

htt= p://www.thenewamerican.com/node/675

The Sonoran Institute R= 11; also a major influence in the Y2Y movement

http://www.= thealternativeview.com/sonoraninstitute.htm

THE SONORAN INSTITUTE
Atte= mpting To Put A Legitimate Face On Radical Environmenta= lism

The Y2Y project comprises a network of over 270 environmental groups, organizations and individuals, and targets an area 1,990 miles long by 125 = to 500 miles wide. Their literature urges their followers to “cont= act federal, state, and provincial politicians, encouraging them to support large-scale habitat protection initiatives like Y2Y. You might also a= sk them to enact strong, comprehensive Endangered Species legislation.” It requests that its adherents who live in the Y2Y area “Work at the local level to ensure that principles of conservation biology are recognized in current management, planning, and land use decisions.” = While this all sounds noble, the entire program is anti-growth, and threatens = not only private property rights, but access to public lands as well; however, = that does not seem to bother Sonoran.

Although Sonoran is intricately involved = in promoting the radical TWP along with Earth First!, they have gained the confidence of county planners by not being up-front wi= th their environmental agenda. Y2Y and Sonoran = have formed a partnership in which Sonoran will provide planning “tools and guidance to communities interested in identifying common values and developing locally-based, inclusive conservat= ion strategies to protect what’s important to them.”    It has certainly become obvious what is important to Sonoran.

Article from a Freedom 21 website http:= //www.freedom21santacruz.net/site/article.php?sid=3D215

The Canadian Connection

The concepts of ecosystems and ecosystems management ultimately will become the Wildlands Project, which involves closing off half the land mass of the U.S. and parts of Canada and Mexico to human use. Ostensibly, it is to repair the damage done by man and to relink ecosystems, using ecomana= gement.

The "managers" begin in small ways to accomplish the ultima= te goal. Small ways like reintroducing the wolf, grizzlies, wolverines and lynx into the intermountain West.

The little sister of the Wildlands Projec= t is better known as Y2Y, Yukon to Yellowst= one. It is an intermediate step in creating systems that would be hospitable to critters but not to human beings.

Wildlands and Y2Y amount to central planning of all the la= nd and water that covers the entire United Sta= tes and parts of Canada an= d Mexico. The U.S. federal government is part of it.

According to the International Wilderness Associa= tion, or WILD: On June 12, 2000, the USGS Federal Geographic Data Committee and Geoconnections (of Ca= nada's Geospatial Data Infrastructure) announced funding for the Yellowstone to Yukon framework = data project - a pilot effort to overcome barriers like national boundaries and private property.

This is the first time these two federal agencies have cooperated on = this kind of funding proposal. A U.S. federal agency and a Canadian agency working together to create a new terri= tory within the two countries is what it amounts to.

The Los Angeles Times, not exactly a journal of right-wing extremism, describes the Wildlands Project thusly: "Invisible to most Americans, the Wildlands Project already is involved in conservation efforts from the Mexican border= to Appalachia to Maine to Canada. Among the 25 networks= it envisions are plans that would link the wilderness of Yellowstone to the Yukon, the British Columbia<= /st1:State> rain forests to the Rockies."

The "brains" behind the Wildlands Project is Dr. Soule. A graduate of San Diego State University and Stanford, Soule stu= died closely with Mr. Population Bomb himself, Paul Ehrlich.

Soule serves on the science advisory boards of several national and international organizations, including La Sierra Foundation, Defenders of Wildlife and The Nature Conservancy. Soule was also co-author of the origin= al draft of the biodiversity convention.

If Congress had adopted the Treaty on Biodiversity during the Clinton reign, it would have hog-tied the United States into implementing most of U.N. Agenda 21. Don't forg= et, treaties (like U.N. Agend= a 21) supersede = the U.S. Constitution.

Excerpts from an article on Dave Foreman http://www.= insideoutsidemag.com/archives/articles/2003/01/profile_of_a_eco_warrior.asp= ?archive_month=3D01&archive_year=3D2003

J= ust three years earlier, Dave Foreman had been an influential conservation lobb= yist in Washington, D.C., enjoying regular audiences with high-placed cabinet officials. But having grown tired of the "Beltway runaround," the New Mexico native had abandoned Washington to help fou= nd the direct-action<= /b> conservation group Earth First!, trading suit, tie, and political decorum f= or frontline confrontation with bulldozers, logging trucks, and chainsaws.

In 1980, Foreman resigned in frustration, and together with a fistful of like-minded others formed what would become the most creative and controver= sial conservation "nonorganization" America has ever known. "I and several other people who had worked for Friends= of the Earth or The Wilderne= ss Society, or who were active Sierra Club members, decided the time had come for a conservation group that wouldn’t compromise, that would invest itself in environmental ethics instead of political pragmatics, and = that would take strong, direct action to try and stop the destruction of wilderness," Fore= man recalls.

Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee Members

Brian Blake - Chair (D= )
Kevin Van De Wege - Vice Chair (D)
Joel Kre= tz - Ranking Minority Member (R)
Judy W= arnick - Asst Ranking Minority Member (R)
William "Ike" <= span class=3DSpellE>Eickmeyer (D)
Bill Grant (D)
Dan Kristiansen (R)=
Patricia Lantz (D)
Liz Loomis (D)
John McCoy (D)
Sharon Nelson (D)
Daniel Newhouse (R)
Ed Orcu= tt (R)

Take a look at the Washington groups who are part of Y2Y. T= hese folks will be the partner non-profits dictating the policies of this law.
h= ttp://www.y2y.net/people/Y2Ynetwork.asp

1)   &n= bsp;     Northwest Ecosystem Alliance<= /st1:place> aka Conservation Northwest

2)    &nb= sp;    Paul Brainerd and the Brainerd Foundation – funds many radical environment= al movements and groups that have ties to the “direct action” move= ment (eg. Tides Foundation)

Information o= n the Northwest Ecosystem Alliance

Northwest Ecosystem Alliance NWEA protects and restores wild= lands in the Pacific Northwest and supports such efforts in British Columbia. NWEA bridges science= and advocacy, working with activists, policy makers and the general public to conserve our natural heritage.

Link between NW Ecosystem Alliance and Mitch Friedman = http://www.conservati= onnw.org/about/ourstory

Mitch Friedman, director of Conservation Northwest on = its founding as Northwest Ecosystem Alliance

Mitch Friedman – Earth First speech

http://w= ww.actupny.org/documents/demomanual/friedman.html

THE SONORAN INSTITUTE Atte= mpting To Put A Legitimate Face On Radical Environmenta= lism

The Canadian Connection

Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee Members

THE SONORAN INSTITUTE
Atte= mpting To Put A Legitimate Face On Radical Environmenta= lism