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- 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.
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- Regional, Federal, State and International Land-Use Intrusions
National/American Heritage Areas, UN Biosphere Reserves and UN
World Heritage Sites
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- Index page of information about dam relicensing across
the nation.
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- Nathan Lapp says good-bye to his friends and America at
a December 11, 2001 Citizens’ Rights Meeting
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- Nathan Lapp’s Good-Bye Letter of December 25, 2001.
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- by Jack Down, President of Citizens
Against Repressive Zoning
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, reprinted from New York Property
Rights Clearinghouse, (PRFA Vol. 6, No. 2 - Summer 2002)
Where have all the general stores gone? Innocent Owners Driven
Out of Business.
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- Letter of November 15, 2000 to Saratoga County (New York)
property owners regarding the postponement of wetlands remapping.
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- At the monthly meeting of the Adirondack Park Agency on
October 11, DEC official Carole Fraser reported on the extensive
steps being taken in the Adirondack Park to implement the consent
decree that Warrensburg resident Ted Galusha and two other co-plaintiffs
won in July after three years of negotiations supervised by United
States District Court Judge Lawrence E. Kahn. By Carol W. LaGrasse,
October 14, 2001
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-ALBANY—The disabled will have more access to state-owned
lands in the Adirondack Park, including more motorized access,
over the next five years. Article by Cristine Meixner, editor.
Reprinted by permission of the Hamilton County News.
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-“Comment,” Capital District Business Review,
Albany, N.Y., September 27, 1999, by Carol W. LaGrasse.
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- Update—March 2001
Important Opportunity for Public Comment, Governor Pataki has
set priority for speedy statewide completion of UMP’s.
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- An Additional 994 Acres of Jurisdictional Wetlands Estimated,
press release February 17, 2000.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, President, Property Rights Foundation
of America, March 2, 2007
DEC’s insidious disregard for the people is exemplified
by its treatment of Stony Creek and environs. The proposed Draft
Unit Management Plan for Wilcox Lake Wild Forest should be discarded.
The plan should be re-drawn under new assumptions, with the local
culture, economy, history, and the community included as salient
factors in a plan that respects the local people.
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- by Carol W. LaGrasse, reprinted from The Property Owner’s
Experience, (PRFA, April 1998).
This article makes the recommendation that the State should eliminate
cost-ineffective regulations and permitting requirements which
serve no practical function of pollution control.
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De-designation of (Meeting of the) Great Rivers
Scenic Byway in Jersey County and Greene County, Illinois
1. Letter
from Keith M. Sherman, Chief, Planning and Systems Section, Illinois
Dept. of Transportation, to Don Little, Jersey County Board,
December 4, 2002
2. Letter
from Don R. Keith, Division Right of Way Manager, U.S. Dept.
of Transportation, to Linda M. Wheeler, Director, Office of Planning
& Programming, Illinois Dept. of Transportation, November
12, 2002
3. Letter
from Keith J. Sherman, Chief, Planning and Systems Section, Illinois
Dept. of Transportation to David Collins, Chairman, Jersey County
Board, October 3, 2002
4. Letter
from Don R. Keith, Right-of-Way Program Manager, U.S. Department
of Transportation, to Linda M. Wheeler, Director, Office of Planning
& Programming, Illinois Dept. of Transportation, September
27, 2002
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- These letters document the success of private property
rights activists to get the U.S. Dept. of Transportation to de-designate
the federal Great Rivers Scenic Byway through two counties. “The
MGRSB north of the Jersey/Green County line is now completely
de-designated.” - Don R. Keith, Division Right of Way Manager,
U.S. Department of Transportation, Nov. 12, 2002 letter.
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- Some of the strategies that citizens can use when their
land is threatened by government land designations.
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- Index page of information about defeating land designations.
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- Sean McKeon, Speech, Sixth Annual New York Conference on
Private Property Rights (PRFA, November 16, 2002)
The American tradition of private property is rooted in the
documents from which the Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution were drawn. To defend Vermont traditions, the forest
industry, farmers, small businesses, and activists who believe
in freedom should stand together.
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-Speech by James S. Burling from Proceedings of the Third
Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (1998).
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- letter from Kit Kimball, Director, Office of External and
Intergovernmental Affairs, to PRFA, September 25, 2001
Kit Kimball, the new appointee by Secretary Gale A. Norton,
sent a letter to the Property Rights Foundation of America announcing
that her office’s responsibilities “include working
with advocacy and non-profit organizations actively seeking input
in policies and programs as they are discussed and implemented
here at the Department of Interior.”
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, October 25, 2002)
For seven months, the New York City Department of Environmental
Protection has been stonewalling PRFA’s Freedom of Information
Law (FOIL) quest to find out the extent of the DEP’s pressure
on landowners to convert legitimate access rights across City
Watershed lands to revocable access permits.
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- Hunting cabin exemption by-passed. Personal monitoring,
APA-managed logging, biological survey imposed. By Carol W. LaGrasse,
July 2002.
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- Adirondack club is acquiring land around scenic pond and
opening up membership to the public.
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- By Peter LaGrasse, Chairman, Board of Assessors, Town of
Stony Creek (March 3, 2008)
This paper shows the results of Peter LaGrasse’s
research into the history and law involving the case Dillenburg
v. State of New York. The historical documents demonstrate
the motivation of the framers of the 1886 legislation providing
for the state payments of taxes on the Forest Preserve land on
the basis of statewide benefit. However, LaGrasse expresses concern
with the State Supreme Court Chautauqua County (which is under
appeal) decision because this court precisely followed a State
Court of Appeals case.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, Hearing Statement on DEC Lake George
Wild Forest UMP, Queensbury Town Hall, December 13, 2006.
DEC has betrayed the visionary effort of the disabled to open
up access to the Forest Preserve to people with disabilities
and people who are not athletic, by virtually closing down the
popular family recreation area on the Hudson River in Warrensburg,
which was established on land acquired from Niagara Mohawk, while
keeping open the most limited facilities exclusively for the
disabled.
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- By Susan Allen (PRFA, September 2004)
Book Reviews: Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods
Hurts America and What We Can Do About It by Dr. Mindy Thompson
Fullilove and Mists of the Couchsacrage: Rescue from State
Land by Alden L. Dumas
Dr. Mindy Fullilove’s Root Shock captures the
mid-20th-century horror of loss of home in her documentation
of urban renewal. The story Mists of the Couchsacrage
by Alden L. Dumas is haunted by the banished hunting camps destroyed
by New York State’s insatiable lust for wilderness, which
it creates by eliminating the rural culture.
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-An index page of articles by Don Fife,
a Southern California-based, natural science/resource consultant
who holds B.S. and M.S. degrees in paleontology-stratigraphy
and geology from San Diego State University. He has been an environmental
geologist working in academia, government, and private practice
for more than 20 years. From 1981 to 1989, Fife served four secretaries
of the interior as appointee/advisor for geology, energy and
minerals for the 25 million-acre California Desert Conservation
Area.
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- Our abundant oil and gas would keep money, jobs,
and opportunities here in the United States. By Roy Innis, Chairman
of the Congress of Racial Equality, June 12, 2008 (Posted by
permission)
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- OpEd by Noel van Swol, Long Eddy, N.Y. (originally published
in the Sullivan County Democrat, July 30, 2004, used by
permission of Noel van Swol)
The proposed Upper Delaware Greenway “is a Trojan
horse designed to go along with the Upper Delaware Scenic River
and Route 97 Scenic Byway and impose more restrictions and ultimately
regional zoning on us.”
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