In-Depth Information

• “The Craze of Environmental Irrationality” - By John Berlau, Director, Center for Entrepreneurship, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Washington, D.C.; Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
  Environmentalism is dominated by disdain for human life, grounded in Rachel Carson’s vilification of DDT and thus arguably causing more deaths from malaria and other insect-borne diseases than from any other cause during the twentieth century. A recent local example of this disdain for human life was the death of Alfred Langner from exposure while trapped in his car for 2 days after an auto accident, unable to reach help because his cell phone had no reception on the Interstate Northway because environmentalists banned cell towers.

• “Invest for Freedom-To Stop the Use of Capitalism Against Capitalism” - By Thomas J. Borelli, Ph. D., Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager, Free Enterprise Action Fund, Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
  Environmental organizations are harnessing major corporations like Pepsico, Caterpillar, General Electric and JP Morgan Chase against their own corporate interests and capitalism itself to promote universal government government-funded health care and an economy centered on global warming-based regulation. Acting as a shareholder activist, the Free Enterprise Action Fund successfully sought a stockholder proxy at JP Morgan Chase against their support for global warming regulation.

• “The Dangerous Craze of Environmental Irrationality” - Book Review by Nathaniel R. Dickinson (PRFA, Mar. 27, 2007)
  Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism is Hazardous to Your Health, By John Berlau, (Nelson Current, 2006)
  The Greens constantly play on the emotions of gullible people to promote their agenda. But the thing to fear is not human activity, but the focus by the Greens on restoring the planet to untrammeled nature, a focus whereby they obstruct worthwhile and life-saving progress.

• “Understanding Greenism” - By Jigs Gardner (PRFA, March 2007)
  Environmentalism should be disassociated from Greenism, considering that Greenism is the enemy of environmentalism. Greenism opposes the evolutionary history of human environmentalism and obstructs efforts at pollution control and progress by creating false problems and promoting absurd, but self-righteous visions of a return to pre-civilized society.

• “Turning the Tables-Defamation Suit Defeats Environmental Group”- By James K. Chilton, Jr., Chilton Ranch & Cattle Co., Arivaca, Arizona, Tenth annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, NY, October 14, 2006)
  James Chilton won a ruling in Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that his ranch could not be regulated under NEPA because of potential habitat when the species under consideration was not present. Afterwards, Mr. Chilton successfully brought a defamation suit against the Center for Biological Diversity for their publication of photos to maliciously misrepresent conditions on his ranch.

• “Environmentalism and Its Consequences” - By Bonner R. Cohen, Senior Fellow, The National Center for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., Tenth Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 14, 2006)
  In the world of environmentalism, human beings who live in rural areas are creatures that disturb the environment. But there is no such thing as the balance of nature, because nature is always changing. To get big money, the environmentalists tapped into the foundations, which are instruments of capitalism, radically transforming them over the past two or three decades. American environmental groups receive $9.6 million daily in donations.

• “The Truth About Environmentalism” - Book Review by Nathaniel R. Dickinson, PRFA, August 2006
  The Green Wave — Environmentalism and Its Consequences, by Bonner Cohen, Capitol Research Center, 2006
  Environmentalists have a stranglehold and, if things continue the way they are going, they will prevail and destroy traditional society.

• “Statement in Support of Legislation to Reform Laws Governing Tax Exempt Properties” - By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, March 13, 2003)
  Statement at Public Hearing of the N. Y. State Senate Committee on Local Government and Committee on Housing, Construction, and Community Development, at Lake Placid, N.Y. Discusses the tax shift to ordinary property owners caused by the exemption of non-profit organizations with often large land holdings

• Adirondack Organizations
  This directory of Adirondack organizations and government agencies contains material selected to be helpful in knowing the current, and perhaps future, areas of action of organizations with interests related to land issues in the Adirondacks and their true positions.

• “Has The Nature Conservancy Run Amok?” — By Nate Dickinson (PRFA, October 2002)
  Wildlife biologist Nate Dickinson tackles bad science, deception, and play on emotions used by the most heavily endowed of the environmental organizations, which is “entering the ranks of the most successful real estate brokers.”

• “Is the Sierra Club Believable?” — By Nate Dickinson, Wildlife Biologist (PRFA, September 21, 2002)
  The Sierra Club’s radical fund-raising letter misaccuses commercial logging of creating desolate moonscapes. On the other hand, the club fails to note the pivotal role that extreme wilderness policies played in the intensity of recent forest fires.The law established National Forests in 1890 to guarantee a future supply of timber, not to provide wilderness areas for the enjoyment of Sierra Clubbers.  

• “The Once-Illustrious National Wildlife Federation” - by Nate Dickinson, Wildlife Biologist (PRFA, Aug. 14, 2002)
  Weighty drivel stokes the fire of grassroots environmentalism. A review of the June/July 2002 issue of National Wildlife.

• A Trio of Articles on Wildlands and Conservation Easements
  • “Pew took a public misstep” - by Carol W. LaGrasse, “President’s Corner,” Agri-News, May 25, 2001
    A refutation of the denials by Pew Charitable Trust of its connection to the radical Wildlands Project and of the connection of conservation easements to The Wildlands Project.
  • “Innuendo and misstatement...” - Letter to the editor by the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Director of Environmental Programs, Joshua Reichert, which was published in Agri-News, May 11, 2001.
    Attacks the reprint of the John Elvin article asserting the connection between wildlands and conservation easements.
  • “Wildlands and Conservation Easements-The Connection Between ’Em”
    A brief summary of a reprinted version in Agri-News, April 13, 2001, of an article by columnist John Elvin in Insight magazine.

• “Unjustified Privileges of Environmental Non-Profits” - by Carol W. LaGrasse, reprinted by permission from The Rhodes Real Estate Review (Mt. Desert, Maine, January 1999)

• “Just Who Are the Defenders of Wildlife?”
  by Nate Dickinson, Wildlife Biologist

• “New Report on the Adirondack Council Available—Fear-Mongering Sustains Fund-Raising” - reprinted from New York Property Rights Clearinghouse (PRFA, Winter 1997)

• “Preservation Group Straps Massachusetts Farm Couple” — By Carol W. LaGrasse (Reprinted from the New York Property Rights Clearinghouse, Vol. 4, No. 2 (Spring-Summer 1997, PRFA)
  Bankruptcy court appeal may be the final chapter for Marie and Joseph Hill, an elderly couple who are being evicted from their scenic dairy farm in South Dartmouth on Buzzard’s Bay, after losing a battle with a local preservation group, FORM.
  Hill Farm Photo Gallery

• “Environmental Bounty Hunting” - by Michael S. Greve, Ph. D., Executive Director, Center for Individual Rights, Washington, DC, from Proceedings of the Second Annual N.Y. Conf. on Private Property Rights (PRFA, 1996). (Dr. Greve is now at American Enterprise Institute.)