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[QUOTE="bbbom, post: 102036, member: 16301"] [b]In fact they want control of ALL the land[/b] American Land Rights Association - Land Rights Network PO Box 400 - Battle Ground WA 98604 Phone: 360-687-3087 - Fax: 360-687-2973 - Email: <alra@pacifier.com> - [url]http://www.landrights.org[/url] Legislative Office: 508 First St SE - Washington DC 20003 Phone: 202-210-2357 - Fax: 202-543-7126 - Email: [email]landrightsnet@aol.com[/email] ***Forced To Be A Willing Seller?*** FAX THIS ARTICLE TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN. Call (202) 225-3121 or the FREE number, (800) 648-3516. Ask for your Congressman's office. Then ask for his or her fax number. ***WILLING SELLER - A MYTH*** "John Jones is a willing seller. He didn't want to sell and held out as long as he could. First the Park Service came in and purchased the homes, farms and timberlands of his neighbors who did want to sell. There will always be some. Then the agency began to search out those families who were in some kind of financial distress such as from a death, divorce, loss of job and other reason. "Jones watched as his community was checkerboarded by the Park Service. He remembered being told when the park was created that he would not be forced out. But now the agency was targeting local businesses and the county itself. Many small businesses were purchased and put out of business. The Park Service purchased the holdings of several large timberland companies. Smaller timber owners began to sell as they saw that the logging infrastructure would eventually not be there. The mill ultimately had to close because it could not get enough wood. Like a natural ecosystem, the economic ecosystem of a community is very fragile. "As more timberland was purchased, more homes and farms began to disappear. Many residents wanted to hold out but with fewer jobs in the county, the value of their homes and property began to go down. As the Park Service purchased them, they lay empty for months or even years because the agency said they did not have the funds to clear them out. They became havens for vandals and drug houses. "The Nature Conservancy, Conservation Fund and other land trusts circled like buzzards. They bought from financially distressed landowners, then turned the land over to the Federal government. Time after time this happened, quietly, secretly and silently they helped undercut the community. "As properties were taken off the tax rolls, the schools and county services began to suffer. Several closed making longer trips to school necessary for families. The school district didn't have the money for the busses they needed. Roads began to close. As large areas were purchased by the Park Service, the agency put up chains across the roads. Some of these roads had been used for years by neighbors as access points to the river or to go camping, swimming, woodcutting or berry picking. Usually we knew another way but over time, all the access was closed off. "Churches, clubs and other community services began to close. The Rotary Club couldn't keep enough members. The library was in trouble. The hours were cut for it and other county services. There had been several markets in town and three gas stations. There is only one of each now and it looks like the store will close. That means a 80 mile drive to Millersville for groceries. Over time, other essential services and stores began to disappear. "When the park was created they promised tourism. I don't know where it is. We gave up a lot of good jobs for this park and the tourists don't come. Several motels and restaurants were built in anticipation of the visitors. All but one restaurant is closed, and it cut its hours back. We have two motels still open but they are struggling. "We have a very nice ski area but a Park Service trail runs through it. The agency has harassed the owners so often that they're close to giving up. They can't get any kind of commitment from the Park Service as to a final trail location so they can't invest in modernizing and expanding the ski area. There sure are a lot of people in town who would benefit if the ski area were allowed to meet its potential. "We thought the Park Service supported recreation. Now it seems the opposite is true. We heard from people out West that the Park Service and the environmental groups were becoming anti-recreation. It couldn't be true we said. It looks like we were wrong. They seem to be against skiing and snowmobiling. Snowmobiles are being kicked out of all parks. It doesn't make sense. "The county had no choice but to raise our taxes. The tax base for the county was shrinking almost daily. We had one local bank and several bank branches. Now there is only one branch open as part of the market, but it may go away too. The banks have not made loans in our town for several years now because the future is unstable. They won't make loans to loggers, equipment suppliers, or small businessmen because of threat from the Feds. No new houses have been built in some time. The theater closed and the cable television company is considering shutting down. It feels like a ghost town. "Some of my neighbors are determined to stay and suffer the consequences and severe hardships of living within a now nearly all Federal enclave. I love my town. I was born and raised here, went away to college and came back. It looks like that even though I stood up to those Federal land acquisition agents, there will soon be nothing left to stand up for. I never thought I'd be a willing seller. But I am now." STOP CARA (HR 701, the Conservation and Reinvestment Act-AKA the Condemnation and Relocation Act). NAME __________________ TOWN _________________ STATE ___ ZIP____ Be sure to list your name, address, town, state and zip code. ___________________________________________________________ Cut off . . . . . . Cut off . . . . . . . Cut off . . . . . . . Cut off . . . . . . Cut off The above article was written by Chuck Cushman, Executive Director of the American Land Rights Association, to illustrate how CARA will destroy communities all over America. The article is a fictionalized account, drawn from real examples many readers will recognize as taking place in their towns. Massive Federal acquisition of millions of acres of private land, then converting it into government restricted use areas weakens local economies, destroys the social fabric of rural America and cuts off access for millions of Americans to formerly assessable lands. Print out and cut off the Willing Seller article. FAX it to your Congressman. REMINDER - House Resources Committee Hearing June 20th All Out Action is Required. You Must Get a Commitment From Your Congressman To Oppose CARA CARA WILL HURT YOU!! CARA is an all out attack on all landowners including farmers, ranchers, miners, forestry advocates, recreation enthusiasts, energy explorationists and many more. It will force the closure of hundreds of rural communities and force residents into the cities. CARA also funds an assault on Federal land users. It funds more Roadless and Wilderness areas, and converts millions of acres of private land into government land which then is made off limits to you. CARA will make millions of acres off limits to energy exploration and development while taking $3 billion each and every year for 15 years ($45 billion in total) away from America's ability to solve its energy problem. CARA makes our energy problem worse while handicapping our ability to fix it. Some in Congress call it the Conservation and Reinvestment Act. Others call it the Condemnation and Relocation Act. HERE'S WHAT YOU MUST DO IMMEDIATELY! --1. CALL YOUR CONGRESSMAN at the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 225-3121 to oppose CARA. There is a temporary FREE NUMBER of (800) 648-3516. Ask for your Congressman's fax number if you don't already have it. Urge him to hold FIELD HEARINGS in your state. Send a letter to your Congressman requested Field Hearings at: Honorable ___________ US House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515. --3. FAX YOUR CONGRESSMAN THE "WILLING SELLER, A MYTH" ARTICLE. Make sure you put your name and address at the bottom. Do not use E-mail to send the article. They will not likely see it before the June 20th hearing. --5. HERE IS THE NEW HOUSE RESOURCES COMMITTEE LIST. Make sure you fax them the WILLING SELLER, A MYTH article. RESOURCES COMMITTEE LIST WITH FAX NUMBERS -- 107th Congress (Save this list) Republicans: James Hansen (UT) Chairman--FAX: (202) 225-5857 Don Young (AK)-FAX: (202) 225-0425 Billy Tauzin (LA)-FAX: (202) 225-0563 Jim Saxton (NJ)-FAX: (202) 225-0778 Elton Gallegly (CA)-FAX: (202) 225-1100 John Duncan (TN)---FAX: (202) 225-6440 Joel Hefley (CO)---FAX: (202) 225-1942 Wayne Gilchrest (MD)---FAX: (202) 225-0254 Ken Calvert (CA)---FAX: (202) 225-2004 Scott McInnis (CO)---FAX: (202) 226-0622 Richard Pombo (CA)---FAX: (202) 226-0861 Barbara Cubin (WY)---FAX: (202) 225-3057 George Radanovich (CA)---FAX: (202) 225-3402 Walter Jones JR (NC)---FAX: (202) 225-3286 William Thornberry (TX)---FAX: (202) 225 3486 Chris Channon (UT)---FAX: (202) 225 5629 John Peterson (PA)---FAX: (202) 225 5796 Bob Schaffer (CO)---FAX: (202) 225 5870 James Gibbons (NV)---FAX: (202) 225 5679 Mark Souder (IN)---FAX: (202) 225 3479 Greg Walden (OR)---FAX: (202) 225 5774 Mike Simpson (ID)---FAX: (202) 225 8216 Thomas Tancredo (CO)---FAX: (202) 226 4623 C.L. "Butch" Otter (ID)---FAX: (202) 225 3029 Thomas Osborne (NE)---FAX: (202) 226 1385 Jeff Flake (AZ)---FAX: (202) 226 4386 Dennis Rehberg (MT)---FAX: (202) 225 5687 Democrats: Nick Rahall II (WV) (Ranking Minority Member)---FAX: (202) 225 9061 George Miller (CA)---FAX: (202) 225 5609 Edward Markey (MA)---FAX: None listed. Call his office for number. Dale Kildee (MI)---FAX: (202) 225 6393 Peter DeFazio (OR)---FAX: (202) 225 0032 Eni F. H. Faleomavaega, Delegate -AS---FAX: (202) 225 8757 Neil Abercrombie (HI)---FAX: (202) 225 4580 Solomon Ortiz (TX)---FAX: (202) 226 1134 Frank Pallone (NJ)---FAX: (202) 225 9665 Calvin Dooley (CA)---FAX: (202) 225 9308 Robert Underwood, Delegate - Guam---FAX: (202) 226 0341 Adam Smith (WA)---FAX: (202) 225 5893 Donna Christian-Christensen, Delegate - Virgin Islands---FAX: (202) 225 5517 Ron Kind (WI)---FAX: (202) 225 5739 Jay Inslee (WA)---FAX: (202) 226 1606 Grace Napolitano (CA)---FAX: (202) 225 0027 Tom Udall (NM)---FAX: (202) 226 1331 Mark Udall (CO)---FAX: (202) 226 7840 Rush Holt (NJ)---FAX: (202) 225 6025 James McGovern (MA)---FAX: (202) 225 5759 Anibal Acevedo-Vila-Res. Comm. - PR---FAX: (202) 225 2154 Hilda Solis (CA)---FAX: (202) 225 5467 Brad Carson (OK)---FAX: (202) 225 3038 Betty McCollum (MN)---FAX: (202) 225 1968 YOU MUST FIGHT CARA - HERE'S WHY: -----CARA will provide over $45 billion dollars over 15 years in a guaranteed trust fund, most of it for land acquisition. This is virtually the same bill you fought off last year. -----The real name for CARA should be THE CONDEMNATION AND RELOCATION ACT for that is what it really does. -----CARA sets aside $3 billion per year that does not have to compete in Congress for funds in the appropriations process with medical care, education, defense or any other social need. Why should land acquisition and condemnation of private land get a higher priority than the military? MAKE CARA COMPETE - NO TRUST FUND; -----Government agents and appraisers get well OVER ONE BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR TO CONDEMN PRIVATE PROPERTY. No one is safe. Eminent Domain will be rampant; -----Environmental law firms receive grant money so they can sue YOU into bankruptcy; -----Extremists gain $60 million dollars per year to train an ARMY of investigators who will trespass on your land to LOCATE AND POLICE ENDANG ERED SPECIES; -----ANIMAL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS clamor for - you guessed it - money money money - to reintroduce wolves that kill livestock and run cattle ranchers, farmers, inholders and landowners off their land; -----CARA would provide billions of dollars over fifteen years for government agents to condemn private property and then turn it into wilderness - no access, no people; -----CARA funds SHUTTING DOWN RECREATIONAL AND COMMERCIAL ACCESS to the federal lands by making more lands available for more wilderness designations like President Clinton has done; -----"Non-government organizations" (NGOs) win funding to draw up UNITED NATIONS Biosphere Reserves, override national sovereignty and eliminate private property rights; -----CARA will fund new UN Biosphere Reserves and UN World Heritage Sites; -----Lands cut off by Forest Service Roadless Rule will become targets for CARA as well; -----CARA helps make more LANDS OFF-LIMITS TO ENERGY EXPLORATION AND DEVELOPMENT; -----All lands with Endangered Species will be targets of land acquisition - there will be no limit; -----Green groups will seek to designate hundreds of areas of private land as new Federal areas; -----Much of the MONEY WILL GO TO THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, CONSERVATION FUND and other giant green land trusts; -----HUNTERS AND SPORTSMEN WILL LOSE ACCESS to acquired lands; -----Inholder families are specifically targeted in the new bills; -----Hundreds of small communities in existing Federal areas will be wiped off the map; -----Land acquisition has always been used as a WEAPON TO REGULATE AND CONTROL PRIVATE LANDOWNERS; -----LAND ACQUISITION DRIVES AWAY EMPLOYERS The community and its future are left in doubt; -----CARA (HR.701) will make it more difficult to build homes and businesses in rural areas; -----NO PRIVATE PROPERTY WILL BE SAFE with these funds available. FARMERS WILL BE ESPECIALLY HARD HIT; -----The Federal agencies should take care of what they have before buying more land; -----Billions of dollars of private land will be TAKEN OFF THE TAX ROLLS forcing local taxes up; -----Congressional Appropriations Committee estimates the FEDERAL AGENCIES ARE $12 BILLION BEHIND IN DEFERRED MAINTENANCE. Any money should go for maintenance, not land acquisition; and -----There should be no net loss of private land in America. PLEASE MAKE SURE YOUR FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO AT LEAST FIVE OTHER PEOPLE. YOUR WHOLE LIST IF POSSIBLE. [/QUOTE]
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