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Forest Plans and the Wildlands Project

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The following ties together the motivation & methods that are being used to ultimately close off almost all public lands to the public. While this following info is focused on the current Southern California Forest Plan process, this info also applies to all national forest & BLM lands in the US, as well as all of rural America. I hope you will read it & become aware of what is at stake & what you can do to help stop it. We have let this go far enough.

Stewards of the Sequoia

"We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our

extinction to set things straight."

David Foreman, founder of Earth First!, past director of the Sierra Club and

co-founder of the Wildlands Project

"The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the

needs and desires of humans."

Dr. Reed F. Noss, co-founder of the Wildlands Project

Are the anti-access proposals that are being advanced by the Center for

Biological Diversity (CBD) and the Sierra Club in their Conservation

Alternative 6 an isolated campaign, or part of a much larger goal? Is there

a connection to the "Wildlands Project", founded by Dave Forman and Reed

Noss, which seeks to return much of North America to its' pre-European

state? As we will show the evidence speaks for itself.

As we’ve pointed out in our “Forest Plan Updates,” the goal of the Center

for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club is to remove what has been

estimated as 60 to 70 percent of our access to the Forests.

If you missed our past Forest Plan Updates:

What's at Stake Part I (fire management)

What's at Stake Part II (roads/Access)

What's at Stake Part III (mountain biking)

What's at Stake Part IV (Vision)

you can view them on our web site by clicking on the "Important Forest Plan

Meetings Alert" link under our "Action" heading on our homepage at:

www.warriorssociety.org

The CBD and the Sierra Club have pinned their hopes on the fact that the

public will not read the proposals contained in Alternative 6. They have

relied on a deceptive tactic to hide the details of their alternative by the

use of emotionally appealing slogans such as “Protect and Restore our

Forests!” and not truthfully telling the public of the radical proposals

this slogan represents.

The Sierra Club has criticized the Forest Service's chosen alternatives in

the press, yet in the very same stories they have not revealed to the public

the fact that their Alternative 6 would severely limit the public's ability

to access the forest. Why the lack of honesty?

I believe the real goal of the CBD and the Sierra Club is to set the

standards, time periods and conditions in the Forest Plans so high they

cannot be met, thus opening the avenue for their real agenda; to manage by

lawsuit, closing access off for not complying with the requirements or

standards of the Forest Plan if Alternative 6 were adopted.

They have been very successful in the past using the courts to force

closures due to what they claim are violations of policy or the Endangered

Species Act. Remember, there are many other provisions in their plan dealing

with other management issues that would have a drastic effect on public

access; we've just touched the surface in our Forest Plan Updates.

But the campaign to “Protect and Restore our Forests!” by removing the

majority of public access is not an isolated one. It is part of the

“Wildlands Project” being promoted by environmental organizations to restore

much of North America to its’ pre-European state. But like their Forest Plan

campaign, the devil is in the details, details you won't find on the

Wildlands Project web site:

http://www.twp.org/

To find out the details and gain a deeper understanding of the history and

ideology of the Wildlands Project (given to you in the words of the founders

of the movement, including Dave Forman who was also one of the founders of

EarthFirst! and Dr. Reed Noss) visit this web site:

http://www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org/index.html

No sane person would argue against protecting the environment. Where the

danger lies is how you go about it. Do you look for technology and common

sense methods, balance and reason to achieve it? Or do you make attempts to

go backwards and return 50 percent of the U.S. to its "pre-European" state

with an ideology that has a deep disdain for mankind?

Even the California Wilderness Campaign innocently and emotionally touts its

support of the Wildlands Project on its web site:

http://www.calwild.org/campaigns/cwp.php

Radical Forest Plan proposals, relentless Wilderness bills, as well as the

movement to remove dams, roads and reservoirs, are just a part of the agenda

to bring the Wildlands Project to fruition.

EarthFirst! described this campaign on their web site:

http://www.earthfirstjournal.org/efj/prime.../different.html

Dave Forman, the Sierra Club (he was a past director), the CBD and their

followers do not care what will happen to the millions of citizens affected

by their goal to bring the Wildlands Project to fruition, to remove access

to our public lands and apply restrictions similar or more severe than the

wilderness act.

"Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs."

John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

You can see the net effects of the "Wildlands Project" campaign in their

Alternative 6 Forest Plan proposals that seeks to remove 60 to 70 percent of

the access to our public lands. Their slogan should not be "Protect and

Restore our Forests!" it should be "Adopt the Wildlands Project and Remove

Public Access!"

Dave Forman and the leadership of the environmental movement are not fools.

They realized that the radical ideology Dave Forman originally espoused has

only alienated the public. They understand the lesson behind the story about

boiling a frog. If you want to boil a frog don't make the water too hot or

the frog will realize what is up and attempt to jump out. If you slowly warm

the water, before the frog realizes it, the water is boiling and he is a

dead frog.

"Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought

up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grandchildren are

once more slaves."

D.H. Lawrence

Dave Forman and his allies in the environmental movement understand the

public's trust in, and emotional attraction to, the so-called mainstream

environmental movement. They hope Americans can be convinced to relinquish

their freedom and have lost our appreciation for it - and they understand

how to take advantage of this apathy. Instead of openly advocating terrorism

to advance his agenda, as Dave Forman has in the past, he will use the

millions of dollars in the coffers of these organizations to support policy

or legislation that will slowly bring their ideology of the Wildlands

Project to fruition.

Dave has decided to move on and start a new organization, The Rewilding

Institute, but he will still be collaborating with the "Wildlands Project":

http://www.twp.org/inside_wp/index.html

"We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come

and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley,

with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade

religion -- guilt-free at last!"

Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue)

As I've stated, the Sierra Club deceptively hides the details that will

radically affect their naïve supporter’s ability to access our public lands

by hiding this ideology behind emotionally appealing slogans such as

“Protect and Restore our Forests!” But as I will point out in my next

update, there are other aspects to their ideology that will severely affect

our ability to maintain America's standing in a world where nothing is

certain, and as recent events have shown, very uncertain.

The supporters of the Wildlands Project have no deep understanding of

freedom; it has been replaced with a blind obedience to the whims of the

environmental movement. This blind obedience to the environmental movement

is testimony that their followers are slaves to their ignorance - as well as

the deception of the CBD and the Sierra Club.

Like the frog slowly boiled to death, will their fate, as well as ours be

sealed? Even the founder of the Sierra Club Mountain Bike Committee, when

questioned at the San Juan Forest Plan meeting, stated to me he had not yet

read through the details of Alternative 6, which he was supporting; this

shows the depth of this blind obedience.

"None are so hopelessly enslaved, as those who falsely believe they are

free. The truth has been kept from the depth of their minds by masters who

rule them with lies. They feed them on falsehoods till wrong looks like

right in their eyes."

Johann Goethe

Will you follow blindly? Do you value your freedom and are you willing to

defend it? Or do you find your salvation in the abdication of your freedom

to the ideology of the environmental movement and the success of the

Wildlands Project?

As important as the future of our forests, as I will point out in my next

update, the future of our country rests on this decision. I put my faith in

you, my fellow citizens, to not fail those who came before us, and to not

fail those that will come after us.

What will you decide?

You are being given the opportunity to protect your freedom to access your

public lands by commenting on the future of your forests; please take this

responsibility seriously.

We will be evaluating and commenting on the forest plans before the comment

period ends in August. We will be releasing these comments to our supporters

to evaluate with an email address to the Forest Planning Team so you can

comment too. Please do your part to protect your access by visiting our web

site for this information or sign up on our email list to be kept informed

on the forest plans.

The Warrior's Society

A Tax-Exempt organization under 501© 4 of the IRS Code

www.warriorssociety.org

A MTBAccess affiliated club

http://www.mtbaccess.com

Clif Bar is the Official Energy Bar and Gel of

The Warrior's Society

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