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Should university-bred legislators, government bureaucrats and environmentalists have their way, America, and much of the world by default, will go hungry

Gov't could swallow your backyard for new national monuments



Apparatus to attack public land use and private ownership is fully operational as the effort to create new national monuments rolls forward. Among recently proposed plans in California, U.S. representatives and environmentalists have carved out 360,000 acres of beautiful countryside, much of it productive, to stash away as natural "landscape."
Reviewing the map of the projected Berryessa Snow Mountain area to be cordoned off for limited, if not prohibited public use in sections, it's easy to locate private tracts where owners' access can be restricted. This isn't the first time national monument designation has been used to hinder private enterprise. Note this excerpt from the August 21, 2014 article, EPA, foe to economic liberty:
"The creation of the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by President Clinton's executive order derailed access to the vast coal reserves beneath its surface. The new monument in Utah that President Obama has on his drawing board, if designated as "wilderness" as planned, would not only keep ranchers from grazing cattle (just as they were forced off Grand Staircase) but would bar exploration and development of fossil fuel deposits that may lie underground."
Commercial production, no matter how environmentally friendly, becomes off-limits whenever the government gets involved in administering public lands. All across the West, land appropriation, whether by legislation or executive action, puts a stranglehold on operations that have contributed to the wealth of this nation for generations.

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Attack on private enterprise under the guise of natural resource "preservation," has been collapsing the farm and ranch economy for decades

The attack on private enterprise (it amounts to nothing less), under the guise of natural resource "preservation," has been collapsing the farm and ranch economy for decades. And it is ushered in through every # in the Constitutional wall that government and their political lackeys can wedge a crowbar. Travel the I-5 corridor through the San Joaquin Valley in California, which was America's greatest produce growing region, and signs declaring "Congress-created dust bowl" testify to government regulations cutting off water to the farmers. The policy to shut down water to the growers began before the natural drought started. Where once stood acres of fruit and nut trees and vegetable fields, only dead and barren trunks remain. The wind-driven topsoil flies across the valley floor, anchored by nothing but tumbleweeds. The strategy to wrest land from agriculture encompasses far more than shutting down canals to protect a few trash fish in the Sacramento Delta, the government-sponsored wolves embody the extreme end of the spectrum. Although other states have abandoned the protected status of these roaming land sharks, Oregon has stuck by its guns, literally, to allow the loping beasts to ravage cattle herds, destroying small ranchers in the state's northeast corner. The most recent attack perpetrated by the Umatilla pack sent a herd of pregnant cows scrambling in a panic for their lives, resulting in mass abortions and bad births, turning the operation from a good year into one of devastating loss; loss that the rancher may not be able to withstand. Oregon regulations guarding the predators leaves ranchers helpless to defend their herds --killing wolves is banned and compensation for losses is pathetically inadequate, practically guaranteeing financial ruin. (Page 82 and Page 100, Pay Attention!!) The region already has succumbed to a private takeover of land equivalent in size to the island of Manhattan, some tracts of which were purchased with government funds. The Zumwalt Prairie, that was a preferred grazing area for local ranchers due to the high-protein bunch grass, has been virtually off-limits now for years, placing beef growers under further strain to feed their herds. As these food producers are systematically run out of business, more land is bought up for preservation. Time will tell how long it will be before the "conservationists" lobby legislators or the president to declare a national monument in the valley residents call a paradise.

Dietary guidelines have become a political agenda guised as health programs

Moreover, dietary guidelines have become a political agenda guised as health programs. The USDA and DHHS now recommend eating less meat and substituting plant-based food items, calling them more environmentally sustainable. No rock is left unturned when it comes to appeasing climate change, which the president declared to be the major threat to America. National monuments have a tempting sound, idealists thinking that they are caring for the land by setting it aside, unworked and unproductive. The opposite is true. The best land is stewarded by those who know its potential -- herders, ranchers and farmers whose interest is to keep the land healthy in order to bring product to market to feed a nation. Should university-bred legislators, government bureaucrats and environmentalists have their way, America, and much of the world by default, will go hungry.


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Former newspaper publisher, A. Dru Kristenev, grew up in the publishing industry working every angle of a paper, from ad composition and sales, to personnel management, copy writing, and overseeing all editorial content. During her tenure as a news professional, Kristenev traveled internationally as a representative of the paper and, on separate occasions, non-profit organizations. Since 2007, Kristenev has authored five fact-filled political suspense novels, the Baron Series, and two non-fiction books, all available on Amazon. Carrying an M.S. degree and having taught at premier northwest universities, she is the trustee of Scribes’ College of Journalism, which mission is to train a new generation of journalists in biblical standards of reporting. More information about the college and how to support it can be obtained by contacting Kristenev at cw.o@earthlink.net.


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