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In-Depth Information
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 “Wild
Cities, Suburb Zoos and Rural Outrages—Reflections on My
Career in Wildlife Management”-By Nathaniel R. Dickinson,
Wildlife Biologist, Tenth Annual National Conference on Private
Property Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 14, 2006)
To understand the today’s alarming increase in
the conflict between different species of wildlife and man, Nate
Dickinson recalls his successful effort to restore wildlife management
in New York State to the legal mandate to maintain deer in balance
with natural food supplies, to create conditions where man and
nature can thrive in harmony. To prevent conflicts, there are
places where wildlife should not be.
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 “Property
Rights Bills in the New York State Legislature” - By
Jeff Williams, Assistant Director of Government Relations, New
York Farm Bureau - Speech to the Seventh Annual Conference
on Private Property Rights (PRFA, October 18, 2003)
The New York Farm Bureau’s 34,000 grassroots members
succeeded in defeating a mislabeled “canned shoot”
bill, which had no acreage limitation. Open burning and light
pollution (fugitive lighting) bills threaten farmers. Tax exempt
reform legislation could relieve undue burdens on property owners.
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- “Private
Property Rights of Farmers: Updates in Takings and Related Case
Law” - By Jeff Williams and Leah Hurtgen, New York State
Farm Bureau (Sixth Annual Conference on Private Property Rights,
PRFA - November 16, 2002)
A broad overview of significant recent cased
that have occurred in New York State and in other parts of this
country, which affect agriculture and other land-intensive business
such as logging and will touch individual property owners: Tahoe-Sierra
Preservation Council, Inc. v. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency
(122 S. Ct. 1465 (2002); the victorious Palazzolo v. Rhode Island
and related historic cases;Town of Lysander v. Hafner (New York
State Court of Appeals, October 18, 2001); the disappointing
Long Island Pine Barrens v. Town of Riverhead;the California
case Pronsolino v. EPA; and another Ninth Circuit case Borden
Ranch v. Army Corps of Engineers.
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William Vojnar
Photo by
Peter J. LaGrasse
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- “Long
Warwick Zoning Battle Ends” — By Carol W. LaGrasse
(PRFA, February 2002)
Farmers give a little in dispute with urban emigres. Town
drops key parts of farm preservation plan, including “Purchase
of Development Rights” and “Open Space”
zoning.
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- “Farmers
Have Private Property Rights—What Does This Mean?”
- Carol W. LaGrasse, speech sponsored by “Local,”
Warwick, N.Y., (PRFA, October 29, 2001)
This speech, at the invitation of local farmers and landowners,
addresses the combined threat of zoning farmland as “Open
Space” while pressuring farmers to sell conservation
easements, or PDR’s (Purchase of Development Rights),
to preserve the character of the remaining farmland that suburbanites
moving into the area enjoy.
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- “A Critical
Look at Conservation Easements” - By Carol W. LaGrasse
(Speech to Tompkins County Farm Bureau, Dryden Veterans of Foreign
Wars Hall, Dryden, N.Y., October 26, 2000)
Benefits for farmers that are attributed to conservation easements
are inaccurate, exaggerated and inequitable. The results of conservation
easements are the loss of equity and the rights to use the land.
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