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- “Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder” - Ancient
Greek Proverb. Junkyard Owner Builds Unique Fence to Comply
with Town Order.
By Carol W. LaGrasse, May 2002.
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- Book review by Nathaniel R. Dickinson, Property Rights
Foundation of America, March 2007
Review of Warriors for the West by William Perry Pendley
(Regnery Publishing, Inc. 2006)
Perry Pendley, president and chief legal officer of Mountain
States Legal Foundation, chronicles the heroic battles of westerners
for freedom and land rights in the face of bureaucrats, environmental
groups and judges who are destroying the rights to land, the
viability of local communities, and freedom itself.
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- By Peyton Knight, Contributing Writer (PRFA, April 24,
2003)
The wetlands condition that the Corps of Engineers is using
to prohibit Jim Starr from farming result from the failure of
Pacific County to maintain drainage ditches.
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- Commentary by Carol W. LaGrasse (Reprinted from New York
Property Rights Clearinghouse, Summer 2002)
Southampton,Long Island, officials passed rules imposing fines
and jail sentences if residents hang their wash up to dry in
full view.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, November 1, 2003)
New York City apartments are still not metered, and extreme
waste results. City taxpayers and upstate property owners should
be aroused, considering the cost of handling the water and the
one and one-half centuries of hardship imposed on property owners
in the Catskill Mountains and Putnam County.
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- Index page of information about waterways issues in New
York State.
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- Private property lies in the path of secret acquisition
plans, The “willing seller” lie is illustrated, by
Carol W. LaGrasse, New York Property Rights Clearinghouse,
Vol. 4, No. 2 (PRFA Spring-Summer 1997).
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- by Ray Kreig, P.E., R. A. Kreig Associates,
Anchorage, Alaska; speech delivered at the Fifth Annual New York
Conference on Private Property Rights, Albany, NY (PRFA, 2000)
Ray Kreig advises how his and Ms. Gerhart’s web site
was organized effectively during 1999-2000 to defeat the Conservation
and Reinvestment Act (CARA).
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- Opening Address by J. Zane Walley, Editor, The Paragon
Powerhouse, Paragon Foundation, Lincoln, New Mexico, from
the Fifth Annual N.Y. Conf. on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
2000).
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- Carol W. LaGrasse, President, Property Rights
Foundation of America, Sixth Annual Conference on Private Property
Rights (November 16, 2002, PRFA)
Some people think that we can defend private property rights
without standing up for the preservation of private property
ownership. From the beginning, PRFA has stood for the preservation
of private property ownership.
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“Western
States Directions to Regain Land-Use Sovereignty” By
Tom Rawles, Chairman, Maricopa County Board of Supervisors, Phoenix,
Arizona, Reprinted from Proceedings of the First Annual New
York Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, 1995)
The federal and state governments, and Indian tribes own 87
% of the land in Arizona. State sovereignty under the Tenth Amendment
should be implemented. Protections for property rights to implement
the Nollan and Dolan decisions, to provide “Takings”
compensation, and to do “Takings” assessments of legislation
should be passed in each state.
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- Index page of information about the Wetlands Justice Project
in New York State.
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- From a speech by Walter H. Olsen, Sr., Proceedings
of the Third Annual New York Conference on Private Property Rights
(PRFA, 1998).
Mr. Olsen relates his personal experience where his property
was trapped by New York State DEC’s and the Town of Southampton’s
wetlands enforcement.
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- Index page of information about wetlands policy on the
national scene.
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- Letter to the Editor, Peter LaGrasse, The Post Star,
Glens Falls, N.Y., December 27, 1999
Peter LaGrasse points out that “wetland designations
could well be the most prominent influence on value.” He
calls for:
- Separate assessments for wetland
- Separate appeals of these wetland assessments
- Small Claims Court jurisdiction over
wetland assessments
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- Protecting Private Property from Overzealous Wetlands Re-Mapping.
- (PRFA, 1999)
Important ways citizens can work effectively for wetlands
reforms in New York State
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, June 2005)
Industry lobbyists advocated a strategy of “strengthening”
and “modernizing” the Endangered Species
Act, while avoiding mention of the importance of private property
rights. Industry tactics divided the property rights movement,
while the grassroots leadership of the movement was kept out
of the loop during the drafting of the Pombo bill. The “2005
Threatened and Endangered Species Recovery Act” does
not protect property rights and does not substitute voluntary
protection of species for the failed regulatory approach.
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- Book Review By Jigs Gardner (PRFA, June 2008)
Government Pirates: The Assault on Private Property Rights
And How We Can Fight It by Don Corace (Harper Collins, 288
pp., $14.95 paper)
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse, Reprinted from the New York Property
Rights Clearinghouse, Vol. 11, No. 4 (PRFA, Fall 2007)
During October 2007, the Office of International Affairs of
the National Park Service announced that Olana, the home of Hudson
River landscape artist Frederic Church, had been dropped from
the list of surviving applications for UNESCO World Heritage
Site designation. But the reason given at that late date, that
Church was not a world class artist, doesn’t jibe,
considering that it is common knowledge that Church, although
revered in the U.S., is not considered of world significance.
In reality, the Park Service backed off because of property rights
opposition.
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- 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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- By Madeleine Fortin (PRFA, December 14, 2005)
The Corps of Engineers and the South Florida Water Management
District keep a massive drainage structure closed, flooding neighborhoods
and farmland during Hurricane Katrina and other storms, which
damages or destroys houses, motor vehicles and farmland, and
kills farm animals.
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-Excerpt from “The United States Constitution—The
Culmination of Human Rights Law,” by Carol W. LaGrasse,
from Positions on Property, Vol. 2, No. 4 (PRFA, July
1995).
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- Index page of information about wildlands on the national
scene.
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- by Bo W. Thott, 1993. (Reprinted by permission of Bo W.
Thott, Washington County Alliance, Cutler, Maine)
Private landowners ostensibly selling their properties to
the National Park Service are in fact not bona fide sellers but
are giving up title to escape the legal expenses of a foredoomed
condemnation.
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- By Paul Driessen (January 2005, Used by Permission)
International environmentalists promote costly, ecologically
unsound wind energy for developing countries, pressuring banks
and energy companies to abandon projects that would create reliable
sources of abundant, reliable, affordable electricity and other
means to give desperately poor people the basic necessities that
wealthy countries take for granted.
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- Local attorney’s letter is a classic critique of the
injustice of imposing Transferable Development Rights by Carol
W. LaGrasse,
reprinted from New York Property Rights Clearinghouse
(Vol. 3., No. 2, April - July 1996).
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, January 2006)
The State Senate hearing at the Capitol left the impression
that delaying action on eminent domain could be used to diffuse
the outrage over the Kelo v. New London ruling. A revised
definition of blight might lull citizens into false security.
But Senator DeFrancisco has a bill to restore constitutional
limits to eminent domain and he and Assemblyman Brodsky have
proposed that condemnation by authorities be approved by elected
bodies.
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- Chapter 14, The Property Owner’s Experience,
- by Carol W. LaGrasse, PRFA 1998.
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- By Carol W. LaGrasse (PRFA, March 15 2003)
In a victory for private property rights, legislation that
would have enacted the Uniform Conservation Easement Act into
law in Wyoming was defeated on March 4, the final day of the
session, with a Senate tie vote.
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