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“Hancock Tracts in Adirondacks are Sold Privately”	- By Carol W. LaGrasse (Reprinted from N.Y. Property Rights Clearinghouse, Summer 2003) GMO Renewable Resources Acquires 72,000 Acres in St. Lawrence County for $25.5 Million. Except for Camps on Earlier Conservation Easements, Hunting Club Leases to be Honored.
“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.”
	- Index page of information about the Heritage Rivers & Areas.
	- Index page of information about the Heritage Rivers & Areas in New York.
“HCF stands against land pressures”	- Opinion by Carol W. LaGrasse (Reprinted from Register-Star, Hudson, N.Y., March 18, 2008) The Hudson River Valley is the object of a number of state and national Heritage Area preservation efforts that would limit the economic future of this historic commercial corridor of New York State. In the fact of the threat to close the Hudson Correctional Facility for budgetary purposes, it is important to realize that the important prison on the riverbank stands as a bulwark against the preservationist pressures which the local communities increasingly face.
“High-tech Surveillance & Informants Exploited to Enforce Land-use Regulation — Our Struggle to Raise Public Concern About Privacy and Property Rights”	- By Carol W. LaGrasse (Property Rights Foundation of America, March 15, 2005) New infringements on privacy have arisen under the mantra of environmentalism, zoning, and building regulations. GIS, low-level fly-overs, and space surveillance help enforce radical regulations. Government agencies harness citizen snitches to inform on violators of environmental rules.
	- Index page of information about highways and rights-of-way.
“A Hike to Little Canada on John’s Pond Road”	- By Carol W. LaGrasse, PRFA, May 1, 2005 Our walk to a small graveyard along an old Indian Lake town road barricaded by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) to enlarge the Adirondack Forest Preserve wilderness shocked us with the realization that DEC is eradicating roads, trails, and history.
	- Index page of information about Historic Preservation on the national scene.
	- Index page of information about Historic Preservation in New York.
“A History of Government Theft”	- By Sarah Foster, April 2006, Reprinted from Whistleblower by permission of WorldNetDaily.com, publisher. The U. S. Supreme Court’s Kelo v. New London ruling was not the beginning of the abuse of eminent domain to destroy communities for private development. It began in Washington, D.C., during the 1950s, where slum clearance was the excuse for cruelly displacing 20,000 residents, mainly families from good homes, others people in scattered poor conditions, who suffered especially, and even died, from the evictions.
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A Horse Tale	- by Kit Shy.
“An Honest, Objective Critique of the Endangered Act”	- By Nathaniel R. Dickinson (PRFA, March 29, 2005) This analysis of some of the most important language of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, such as the discussion of “critical habitat” and the definition of “endangered species,” demonstrates that it needs a major overhaul. Well-educated, totally objective scientists should be called in to re-write the Act and guide its implementation.
“Hope for People Fighting Rent Control”	- By Mark Alpert, Attorney, Hart, King & Coldren, Santa Ana, California; Speech to the Eighth Annual Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y. October 23, 2004) In the decision Chevron USA v. Lingle, the Ninth Circuit ruled that a rent control law has to substantially advance a legitimate state interest, e.g., to provide affordable housing. Rent control laws are an example of the “tyranny of the majority” feared by Madison, which was why the framers of the Constitution adopted the Fifth Amendment.
“How Subsidized Housing Keeps the Poor Down”	Book review by Carol W. LaGrasse, April 9, 2005 Review of: America’s Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake-The Failure of American Housing Policy By Howard Husock (Ivan R. Dee, Chicago 2003)
How-To	- Becoming a Formal Participant and Intervenor in the FERC Dam Relicensing Process.
“How Zoning was Defeated in Wetmore Township”	- Featuring recollections by Andy Rakiecki (Reprinted from New York Property Rights Clearinghouse, Vol. 6, No. 1, Spring 2002) Local citizens defending the rural lifestyle in a Pennsylvania town in the area of the Allegheny National Forest used a townwide referendum to get their anti-zoning message across, 399-47.
	- Index page of information about the Hudson River Black River Regulating District in New York.
Hydroelectric Dams Subject to FERC Relicensing 1998 - 2010	- list of hydroelectric dams scheduled for relicensing from 1998-2010, including river name and owner of dam.

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