See Also
Additional Helpful
Organizations
Citizens with Common Sense
(Unbiased source of accurate
current information about the Wildlands project. Tells Wildlands
story using their own words.)
Web site: www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org
Additional Resources
Cenozoic Society, Inc. (Publishes Wild Earth magazine.
Crusades to restore vast tracts of land to a pre-human condition
— published goal of about fifty percent of the coterminous
states within the next few decades, ultimately ninety percent.
Civilization is to be reduced to islands amid the restored wildlands.
Generous funding for the Wildlands project comes from many wealthy
foundations, such as Pew Charitable Trust, Merck Family Fund,
and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.)
address
The Wildlands project
(Self-described in Wildlands magazine, as “the
organization guiding the design of a continental wilderness recovery
strategy.”)
address
“The Pristine Myth”
Charles C. Mann talks about the thriving and sophisticated Indian
landscape of the pre-Columbus Americas.
See Atlantic Online (Atlantic Unbound, March 7, 2002)
link
“1491”
“Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere
was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an
altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say,
Europe.”
See Atlantic Online (The Atlantic Monthly, March 2002)
link
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In-Depth Information
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 “The New Wars for the West”
- Keynote Address by William Perry Pendley, Esq., President and
Chief Legal Officer, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Lakewood,
Colorado; Eleventh Annual National Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 13, 2007)
Perry Pendley successfully defended John Shuller against the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when, in self-defense, he shot
a grizzly bear. He won the case for Larry Squires, who wanted
to allow disposal of oil field brine in dry sink holes on his
property. Mountain States Legal Foundation is fighting for inholder
access to their property blocked by the U.S. Forest Service.
Pendley has argued successfully three times before the U.S. Supreme
Court on the right of contract regardless of race or ethnicity,
against what is called “affirmative action.”
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- “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.
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 “Wild Cities, Suburb
Zoos, and Rural Atrocities” - By Nathaniel R. Dickinson
(PRFA, July 2006
Instead of choosing wildlife policies on the basis of their
emotional appeal, management agencies should adopt scientifically
sound policies to deal with the frequent and severe conflicts
between wildlife and humans.
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 “The
Pleistocene Park Project—Removing Civilization from North
America” - By Robert J. Smith, Adjunct Environmental
Scholar, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Speech to the Ninth
Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
Albany, N.Y., October 22, 2005)
Environmental scholars proposed in August 2005 to restore
the ecosystem and all the large animals that roamed North America
at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, replacing extinct mammals
with Asian and African counterparts, including elephants, lions,
cheetahs, camels, wild horses and a giant tortoise, while eliminating
human beings from ten states from Canada to Mexico, from the
east edge of the Rockies to just west of the Mississippi River.
This is just the latest of radical environmental proposals that
are viewed as credible and explain what the environmental leadership
is about.
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 “The Wildlands
Program” - By Thomas M. Bennett, Maryville, Tennessee,
Sixth Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
Nov. 2002)
While describing how The Wildlands Project’s core,
buffer, and corridor zones are meant to accomplish the return
of at least one-half of the land in North America to wilderness
with no human influence, “Matt” Bennett
of Treekeepers.org warns an unsuspecting populace to be on the
watch for “synergy,” where the Wildlands
vision is implemented piecemeal.
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 “Land Grab
by Conservation Easement” - By J. Zane Walley, Speech,
Sixth Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
Nov. 2002)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is enlarging the Everglades
by using its canals to raise the water level in Dade County,
Florida - flooding an 8.5 square mile area where over 500 families
live, ruining the avocado orchards and other farms, and making
the area uninhabitable. Transferable development rights are also
imposed to return the land to “Wildlands.”
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- “Beware
of Those Noxious Wildlife Corridors” — By Nate
Dickinson, Wildlife Biologist (PRFA, Aug 16, 2002)
Americans should wake up to the threat to traditional American
values posed by the pseudo-science of the Wildlands Project,
which is being used to advocate federal ownership of land between
“core” areas such as the Okefenokee and
Osceola National Forests in Florida.
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 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.
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- “Wildlands
and the First Amendment” - by Carol W. LaGrasse,
excerpt from “The United States Constitution—The Culmination
of Human Rights Law,” Positions on Property, Vol.
2, No. 4 (PRFA, July 1995)
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