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- 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.
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- Long Island Pine Barrens Owners
Sue in Both State and Federal Courts.
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- For twenty-one years the State of Vermont, the Federal
government, and the city of Burlington have put Paul Preseault
through a judicial wringer.
- by John McClaughry
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- By Jack W. Herzberg (Used by permission, copyright 2004
Jack W. Herzberg)
The U. S. Forest Service does not respect the property rights
of inholders. Instead, the agency allows cattle and sheep graziers
to permit their livestock to graze in unfenced, posted fields.
The law requires that livestock owners have a duty of ordinary
care to prevent the trespass of their livestock on posted lands,
whether fenced or not.
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- By Ron Zumbrun (Reprinted by permission, from The Daily
Recorder, City of Sacramento, October 13, 2003)
Plumus County, California adopted an open range ordinance,
forcing property owners to allow cattle grazing. Jack and Millie
Herzberg are suing for trespass and illegal rent control. They
want full compensation and liability insurance.
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- First Grants are for The Nature Conservancy in the Adirondacks
and Trust for Public Land in New Hampshire. Posted January 2002.
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-By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, February 2006)
DEC’s 2005 Draft Open Space Conservation Plan
is based on unjust treatment of rural New Yorkers, insider relationships
with land trusts, and violation of environmental law. The plan
should be revamped and reissued in draft form to comply with
environmental law, revealing government land ownership and protection
inventories for each political subdivision and with the full
extent of the ultimate acquisition plan divulged for the state
and each political subdivision.
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- Letter from Susan Allen, Editor & Publisher, Adirondack
Park Agency Reporter, to Francis Sheehan, N.Y. State Dept. of
Environmental Conservation
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- DEC Fails to Reveal Full Extent and Impact of its Land
Acquisition Plans - Press Release , November 13, 2001, by Carol W. LaGrasse
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- DEC Fails to Reveal Full Extent and Impact of its Land
Acquisition Plans, Final Comments - By Carol W. LaGrasse, Draft
New York State 2001 Open Space Conservation Plan, November 28,
2001
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- By Gerald B. Solomon, Member of Congress (September 19,
1994)
The successful “Dear Colleague” letter
from Jerry Solomon urging Members of the House of Representatives
to vote against the American Heritage Area generic program. “Secretary
Babbitt has made it clear that funding for the heritage areas
will be conditioned on adoption of land use regulations acceptable
to the federal government.”
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-Order audio tapes of PRFA’s annual conferences.
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- Carol W. LaGrasse, PRFA Update, February 21, 2006
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, November 2004)
In a victory for private property rights, “takings”
compensation received 60% of the vote in an Oregon referendum.
The law, passed in a traditionally liberal state, could start
a national movement.
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- News Brief - November 2000.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (Property Rights Foundation of America®
Position Brief, May 2008)
When people are beset with difficulties, they often refuse
to set down exactly what is happening to them so that they can
logically convey the situation to a potential source of help.
The defense of private property rights has a much greater chance
when people apply themselves to understanding and conveying their
situation. Six rules for clear communication are illustrated
in this discussion of local siting of a wind farm and electric
transmission system.
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- Speech by Thomas A. Miller from Proceedings of the Third
Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights (1998).
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-By Guy Poulin, Speech to the Ninth Annual National Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 22,
2005)
Guy Poulin, a resident of Northville in Saratoga County, rallied
the shoreline owners on the Great Sacandaga Lake when the Hudson
River Black River Regulating District Commission obscurely announced
that the access permit fees would go sky high. His researched
the law controlling the fees, exposed the new scheme, which was
illegal, and aroused the property owners to action.
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- A helpful list of other organizations involved with property
rights.
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- by Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, June 2006)
In order to enlarge the Silver Lake Wilderness, the State
Department of Environmental Conservation proposes to deliberately
destroy the West River Road, a town highway leading to the historic
site of Whitehouse on the West Branch of the Sacandaga River
in Wells, N.Y. Two fine steel suspension footbridges will be
deliberately allowed to deteriorate, locally cherished old stone
chimneys at the ghost town will be lost, and large, active campsites
enjoyed since at least 1962, when the State acquired the land,
will be deliberately destroyed. Access to a nineteenth century
cemetery will be cut off.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, Welcome Address, Seventh Annual N.Y.
Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Oct. 18, 2003)
Taking a look at the ways our rights are being eroded and
setting history back on a path toward justice. Countervailing
the soft-sell, long-term approach of moneyed interests - conservation
easements, scenic byways, heritage areas, trails - the high-sounding
tools of landscape preservation.
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- A short list of our most frequently visited pages.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, President, PRFA, July 5, 2007
Government from distant places, fatiguing the people into
compliance; a multitude of new offices and swarms of officers
to harass the people…A government far from the vision
of justice based on all men being created equal, endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights, including life, liberty,
and the pursuit of happiness. Landscape preservation from the
regional, state, federal and international level takes precedence,
eradicating freedom.
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- By Nathaniel R. Dickinson (PRFA, May 4, 2006)
A “rather universal human tolerance for the wild
kingdom, fueled by the radical environmental movement,”
has generated such unwelcome neighbors as foxes in Britain’s
cities, aggressive bear in New Jersey suburbs, and uncontrolled
deer populations causing millions of damage to agricultural crops
and motor vehicles, including human fatalities.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, June 4, 2003
When applying for a local building permit, property owners
are unaware of the multiplicity of local, state, and federal
agencies potentially having jurisdiction. The tentative list
of over 30 agencies in “Overlapping Jurisdictions”
shows the urgent need for a State clearinghouse to provide
applicants with an official list of potentially jurisdictional
agencies.
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- Speech by R. J. Smith from Proceedings of the First
Annual N. Y. Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
1995).
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- by Carol W. LaGrasse, New York Property Rights
Clearinghouse, Vol. 2, No. 3 (PRFA, Oct. 1995).
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