Wednesday, October 19, 2016

BLM LAND GRAB VIA MISUSE OF ANTIQUITIES ACT


‘MONUMENTALISM’ – BLM  LAND  GRAB  VIA  MISUSE  OF  ANTIQUITIES  ACT

... outrageous  and  intolerable  on  multiple  levels ...



The federal Bureau of Land Management intends to double the size of the current 66,000-acre Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument by securing an additional 64,000 acres of existing public and some private lands — including some O&C lands (Oregon and California Railroad Revested Lands) from Oregon and about 10,000 acres from Northern California — via executive order of 'president' Obama??!! (Obama - and Biden - were  'resigned' by FORCE last fall 2015. Their resignations are recorded on video tape and will be televised.  NEITHER have ANY authority,  and those who would 'normally' follow their orders have been instructed to NOT accept or follow their 'orders'. At this time these two are mere figure heads acting as public relations to both Americans and the world until the REPUBLIC is publicly announced.)

This would severely effect the traditional and customary uses of all these acquired lands, and would ultimately affect all recreational sports, including hunting.

Environmentalists at and around Southern Oregon University apparently were given special notice of the meeting ahead of other key stakeholders and opponents to the proposed massive expansion, and the environmentalists organized well in advance, even telling their supporters to wear blue (as seen in photos of the meeting). 

They are now using the flawed science regarding “climate change” to help justify what amounts to just another public land grab by the BLM.
An Open Letter

TO: Oregon Sens. Jeff Merkley and 
Ron Wyden; 
Oregon and California hunters; 
other concerned stakeholders
First of all, by way of a brief introduction, I grew up in the Applegate Valley of Southern Oregon (circa 1960s), not far from the Cascade-Siskiyou Monument and the expansion lands in question. I graduated from Grants Pass High School and attended Oregon State University in Corvallis. My father is buried in the Applegate Cemetery and my mother is buried in Gazelle, Calif. (Siskiyou County). 

I have fished, hunted and logged in and all around the existing monument lands for decades. Today, our family owns land near and bordering the monument and the proposed expansion lands, so our family represents a legitimate stakeholder.

As we have seen time and time again in the news, what some 'government agencies' tell the public is sometimes very far from the truth. And the BLM has seemingly earned a reputation for corruption and misrepresentation.  

Here is a small sample of the headlines from a simple Google search...

It’s a vicious self-perpetuating cycle of gobbling up public lands and then exploiting them (revenues from the lease royalties derived from the lands) and using the licensing royalties to buy even more lands.

Then we have BLM officials with the audacity to tell the public in meetings, like a recent meeting in Ashland, that a significant portion of the access roads to/in the Cascade-Siskiyou Monument have to be closed because the agency cannot afford to maintain them, thus limiting — and in many cases eliminating — public access to lands that were allegedly set aside for the multiple-use enjoyment of the people (hunting, etc.). It’s a bait and switch at the highest levels of government with agencies running amok.

As a result of road closures (“no money for road maintenance,” says the BLM) in the Cascade-Siskiyou Monument (Soda Mountain Wilderness), hunters are no longer able to access the more remote and productive hunting grounds where vehicles are needed by handicapped and infirm or older hunters. 

They are subsequently forced to use (trespassing and hunting on) more accessible privately owned lands, creating conflicts with private land owners, which I have seen as a growing trend in Siskiyou County from my on-site observations.

This is just outrageous and intolerable on multiple levels, and it’s a sham that any politician would allow this to occur. Something must be done. This is the kind of problem that will eventually circle around and bite everyone in the backside.

Given the malfeasance and shenanigans that surrounded the so-called public input meeting in Ashland on Oct. 14, I strongly urge Sens. Merkley and Wyden to consider having a more balanced and honest public input meeting in Siskiyou County, with adequate official notice provided to our county officials, since approximately 10,000 acres in our county seem to be under the BLM’s gun as well, including the Horseshoe Ranch Wildlife Area, a local hunter’s and recreational paradise.

I also urge all readers to immediately contact both senators, who are collecting input on this monument expansion.

Sen. Jeff Merkley
121 SW Salmon Street., Ste. 1400
Portland, OR 97204
Phone: (503) 326-3386
Fax: (503) 326-2900

Sen. Ron Wyden
wyden.senate.gov/contact


More information about the proposed monument expansion is available at HealthyForests.org.
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