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Invasion biology theorists, Government land grabs and Agenda 21, the UN-sponsored Wildlands Project, Reserve and Corridor System

Private Property Rights Endangered by Nativism



Endangered oceanfront Monterey cypress trees along Sonoma Coast
Homeowners along the coast, beware!

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Anti-exotic advocates (invasion biology theorists), aka nativists, are in control at State Parks and the California Coastal Commission. They also control the National Park Service. They're implementing Agenda 21's land- grab goals by tearing out sand dune-stabilizing non-native grass proven by a 1960s USDA study to be the only sand stabilizer capable of withstanding heavy tourist abuse that destroyed most of Northern California's native grass and foliage beginning in the mid-20th century. This grass removal in Point Reyes, California, has destabilized acres of sand which are now flooding onto and destroying valuable private pasturelands in Point Reyes. Grass removal at Humboldt County beaches has created massive sand erosion that's wiping out untold acres of prime beachfront real estate. Here in Salmon Creek along Sonoma Coast, State Parks is refusing to stop a runaway dune caused by European grass removal. The 30-foot-high wall of runaway sand, known locally as the Big South Salmon Tsunami, has been allowed to swallow a precious and endangered cypress tree mini forest, and now it's encroaching on privately held beachfront homes and lots. Home to a variety of "invading" birds and animals, the mini forest here has been treasured by beachgoers who've enjoyed meditating among the trees. But State Parks allows the destruction because nativist ideology demands the elimination of trees and animals considered non-native. They employ slow suffocation when available because it's less expensive than clear-cutting. Caption: Current cypress tree victim breathing its last They operate under the protection of current Western ecological thought presently gripped by nativism, an ideology espoused in WWII Germany and understandably dubbed a pseudoscience by horrified witnesses to the destruction. Nativists protect life forms they consider "native." They treat all other forms as "exotic alien invaders" and actively destroy them.

Spotted Owl Made Homeless by Nativism

It's tragic because the birds and animals living in the areas under destruction have very few options when their homes disappear. An endangered spotted owl, his tree swallowed by the Big South Salmon Tsunami, had to come live with me a while ago. From his perch, a 4 x 12 beam within an alcove on the leeward side of my home, he'd swoop down on suspicious wiggles in the grass for his breakfast.

Boy Killed by Nativist Practice

And need I mention that it's tragic because 10-year-old Andrew Waldrup of Tucson, Arizona, while playing at the smaller South Salmon Parking Lot Tsunami, also fed by sand unstabilized by grass removal, was killed in 2009 when the tunnel he'd dug with bare hands collapsed on him. And several homes, directly in the Big South Salmon Tsunami's path, will soon be buried too, barring unlikely action by State Parks.

State Parks Failing To Take Any Action

Perhaps the biggest reason it's tragic, is that all this could have been avoided had State Parks only acted before problems developed. The US Army Corps of Engineers offered to replant the sand-stabilizing grass they'd torn out while refloating a storm-beached US Coast Guard vessel at South Salmon Creek Beach in the early '80s. But Parks took no action, allowed the Army's 5-year Statute of Limitation of Liability to expire, and the Big South Salmon Tsunami formed. Though for me, the crowning reason it's tragic---the reason that evokes the most inner tears---is that Parks' only response to public protest has been unkept promises and phony attempts at sand stabilization. They cling to their nativist ideology long ago shown to be pseudoscientific because "native" cannot be defined. The California Redwood is a prehistoric invader from points north. Bison, bear and deer are immigrants from Eurasia and so on. The question, "native to when," thus begged, reveals nativism's hollow sophistry.

Monterey Pine Unjustly Accused and Condemned

Monterey pine fossils dating back to the middle Miocene and Pleistocene periods have been found in about 20 California locations ranging from Chula Vista to Point Reyes. But with no regard for this natural history and the natural ebb and flow of living things throughout the earth, modern nativists have dubbed the Monterey cypress and pine trees "harmful invaders" only 50 miles from Monterey. So like Alvin Seifert of Hitler's 3rd Reich, they're clear-cutting or finding other means of destroying Monerey pine forests statewide.

Snowy Plover Endangered by Nativist Removal of European Grass

Beach partiers with dogs steal driftwood logs behind which endangered snowy plovers are nesting. I've watched a few plovers, thus exposed, escape the dogs by hiding in their one last refuge---the tall European grass---ironically the very grass nativists are destroying while simultaneously bemoaning the plover's loss. So it would seem Parks is insincere about its concern over destruction of this endangered species and uses its plight only to gain control of the land.

A Dire Need for Positive Action and Clear Thought

It could be argued that we humans are non-native too. But we've arrived, are growing more numerous, and we cannot change that. So we can plant more of the tough, deep-rooting European grass on highly frequented beaches to accommodate our abuse, or allow a sterile, bare-sand ecology the likes of Venice Beach. But unlike Venice Beach, Salmon Creek beach faces heavy winds that create home-destroying moving dunes from loose sand. And we've a creek here, needed by the salmon, that's jeopardized by acres of windblown sand being pushed into it by foot traffic of man and horse. This narrows the creek, making it harder for the salmon to go upstream. And here again, Parks doesn't seem to care. Author, lecturer, conservationist J.L. Hudson says, "The 'anti-exotics' movement is a growing threat to biodiversity conservation efforts. In the past 10 years, the mythology of 'invasive non-native species' has spread from a minor pseudoscience indulged in by the gullible fringe, to a growing extremist movement uncritically embraced by otherwise responsible environmental groups." Dr. Suzanne Valente commented on Point Reyes Light Publisher-Editor Emeritus David Mitchell's blog of December, 2007 about the fallacy of nativism. She says, "We should recognize nativism shows no respect for the sanctity of life--all life...and we should have educated ourselves to understand nativism has roots in Nazi Germany."

Nativist Land-Grab

This nativist movement, having sold its ideology to the populace, is leveraging it into immoral land-grabbing reminiscent of 19th-century American Frontier land barons who stole land by expelling smaller neighbors with artificially created, home-destroying disasters like our tsunami, and then annexing the land to their own. Their tactics included the kind of unkept promises, half-truths, misrepresentations, and outright false statements Parks has consistently made to Salmon Creek residents over the years about our tsunami. So the Big South Salmon Tsunami, our very symbol of advancing socialism, continues its macabre advance unchecked. To date it has been allowed to slowly suffocate and bury about 35 bird-habitat trees and now approaches the remaining trees--and homes just beyond--at a Parks-documented groundspeed of 3" per week. Caption: View from the top of Salmon Creek's South Salmon Tsunami-State Parks' "natural disaster" artificially created by dune grass removal. Though they don't seem to care about spotted owls being rendered homeless here in Salmon Creek, nativist officials opportunistically used spotted owl endangerment to stop logging in Western Oregon. However it was later proved that this owl thrives in new-growth forestation. And their successful misrepresentation of the amount of water needed by the endangered suckerfish enabled them to easily turn lucrative farmland into dustbowls, driving out the farmers and at least temporarily fulfilling their land grab ambitions in the Klamath Basin. Local nativists actively seek and gain positions of authority. Then they use their authority to mislead an apathy-disempowered populace who've little choice but to continue believing them despite lie after lie. Observing all this during my 55-year residency here has made me curious as to Parks' motives. Why should they be operating like frontier land barons? Research has revealed some astonishing facts. Firstly, our key bureaus have been fully infiltrated with socialist-leaning officials with no respect for private property rights. Our NEA has taken control of public school curriculum, abolished Civics (a required course in our secondary schools when I was a boy!), replaced it with courses on environmental sustainability, and is waging a silent, undeclared war upon the values embodied in our Constitution that stress unalienable rights for individual. They seek to replace it as soon as possible with the United Nations Constitution that stresses the rights of the group, a value at complete odds with those of our present Constitution. And secondly, Government ownership of more than 80% of North America's total acreage, as a "Reserve and Corridor System (with little to no human use) to protect biodiversity," is mandated by Agenda 21, the UN-sponsored Wildlands Project being quietly implemented nationwide through a diversity of UN front organizations. The front organizations include socialist-infiltrated government bureaus and an unelected advisory group known as ICLEI which has taken control of environmental decision-making at most of the nation's city councils and county boards of supervisors. And there's a growing number of NGOs (non-Government, non-profit organizations) such as Friends of the Dunes in Humboldt County who last summer organized a crew of 800 teenagers to tear out many acres of European dune grass, exposing a beach and adjacent private property to land erosion and devastation that could ultimately lead to Eminent Domain and annexation proceedings. This is ominous because our founding fathers recognized the critical nature of private property rights. They were firsthand witnesses to the abuse of power that occurs when government controls private property. President James Madison and others even claimed the sole purpose of government is to protect private property. They knew that private property is the foundation of liberty and wealth creation. Peruvian Hernando de Soto assembled a research team and launched a World Bank-sponsored study of many nations for many years during the early 2000s. Their findings, published in The Mystery of Capital, validate our founding fathers' beliefs. Their study concluded that Third World nations are poor due to government control of the land.

Friends of the Dunes Taking Control of Local Government

Conservationist Uri Driscoll of Humboldt County recently wrote in an editorial that California's Coastal Commission and local county planners are aware of problems caused by denuded sand on our beaches, "... but are in an awkward position. Some of their staff people are directors at Friends of the Dunes, a local nonprofit and high-profile advocate for beach grass removal."

City of Richmond, California, Also Taking Control of Private Property

Backed by a private investment firm and using Eminent Domain when needed, socialist-leaning Mayor Gayle McLaughlin of Richmond, California is currently taking over distressed mortgages resulting from the 2008 government-caused financial crisis. Eminent Domain is generally used only when a parcel of land is obstructing a proposed project generally seen as a benefit to the community. So McLaughlin's use of it as a land-grabbing tool, forcing banks and investors to sell their mortgages, has little if any precedent.

Public Apathy Not Helping

Land loss to the Government is taking place on many fronts. Correcting the problems caused by government-caused ecological disaster might prove embarrassing to its proponents. But needed environmental repairs won't get any easier the longer people do nothing and accept false statements, never-to-be-kept promises, and incremental freedom-infringements imposed on them by smooth-talking bureaucrats currently grabbing privately held land and transferring it to public ownership using a variety of unsavory tactics. Recommended reading/viewing: (Below are 11 data sources for this article)
  1. The Monterey Pine through geologic time
  2. Eco-fascism in the Pt. Reyes National Seashore
  3. Natives Vs. Exotics: The Myth Of The Menace
  4. Axelrod, D.I., and F. Govean. 1996. An early Pleistocene closed-cone pine forest at Costa Mesa, southern California. International Journal of Plant Science 157(3):323--ì329.
  5. Millar, C.I. 1998. Reconsidering the Conservation of Monterey Pine. Fremontia 26(3):12-16.
  6. USDA Brochure 1967 Sand Dune Control Benefits Everybody--The Bodega Bay Story.
  7. How Understanding Evolution Can Help Us Conserve Species.
  8. Dr. James Morris, Spartina (videotaped PIEL Conference discourse of Mar. 5, 2011)
  9. Michael Pollan quoted in Rethinking --'Invasive Species': Environmentalism Gone Awry?- October 8, 2012 Symposium flyer
  10. David Theodoropoulos, Invasion Biology (PIEL panel)
  11. Reuters, California city becomes first to adopt eminent domain plan

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