See Also
Additional Helpful
Organizations
Citizens with Common Sense
(Unbiased source of accurate
current information about the Wildlands project. Tells Wildlands
story using their own words.)
Web site: www.wildlandsprojectrevealed.org
Additional Resources
Cenozoic Society, Inc. (Publishes Wild Earth magazine.
Crusades to restore vast tracts of land to a pre-human condition
— published goal of about fifty percent of the coterminous
states within the next few decades, ultimately ninety percent.
Civilization is to be reduced to islands amid the restored wildlands.
Generous funding for the Wildlands project comes from many wealthy
foundations, such as Pew Charitable Trust, Merck Family Fund,
and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.)
address
The Wildlands project
(Self-described in Wildlands magazine, as “the
organization guiding the design of a continental wilderness recovery
strategy.”)
address
“The Pristine Myth”
Charles C. Mann talks about the thriving and sophisticated Indian
landscape of the pre-Columbus Americas.
See Atlantic Online (Atlantic Unbound, March 7, 2002)
link
“1491”
“Before it became the New World, the Western Hemisphere
was vastly more populous and sophisticated than has been thought—an
altogether more salubrious place to live at the time than, say,
Europe.”
See Atlantic Online (The Atlantic Monthly, March 2002)
link
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In-Depth Information
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 “Enormous
Wilderness Corridors Masquerading as Land Management Refinements”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse, Reprinted from New York Property
Rights Clearinghouse, Vol. 15, No. 1 (PRFA, Spring 2011)
The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s
Strategic Plan for its 442 state forests comprising 786,000
acres outside the Adirondack and Catskill Forest Preserves
focuses on ensuring connectivity for wildlife movement between
large “matrix blocks” of state forests
maintained as mature cover connected with wide, natural strips
of land with a high percentage of forest cover. This system
would enhance connectivity though deep forested areas from
Ontario to Georgia.
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 “Congressional
Designs on Your Property Rights” - By Robert J. Smith,
Senior Fellow for Environmental Policy, National Center for
Public Policy Research; Adjunct Senior Environmental Scholar,
Competitive Enterprise Institute; & President, Center
for Private Conservation, Washington, D.C.; Presented at Twelfth
Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
Albany, N.Y., October 18, 2008)
The Bush Administration appointed major corporate and land
trust figures such as John Turner, Henry Paulson, Gail Norton
and Lynn Scarlet, who were enemies of private property ownership
and private property rights, instead emphasizing “partnerships”
and conservation easements. The Congress is designating nonstop
Wilderness Areas, National Parks, National Battlefields, National
Monuments, National Heritage Areas, National Scenic Trails,
and Wild and Scenic Rivers. However, Rep. Rob Bishop and Rep.
Paul Broun are bright lights for private property rights.
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 “Property
Rights Update from Washington, D.C.” - By Jason Knox,
Esq., Legislative Staffer, Subcommittee on National Parks,
Forests and Public Lands, U.S. House of Representatives, Washington,
D.C.; Twelfth Annual National Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, Albany, N.Y., October 18, 2008)
The environmentalists are using legislation against energy
transmission corridors. They’re promoting Heritage
Areas and wilderness designations as “economic
redevelopment” while eliminating good-paying jobs.
The urban Taunton Wild and Scenic River is meant to stop a
gas pipeline. The 1,082-page resources omnibus bill would
tie up 2 million acres as wilderness, including 1.2 million
acres in Wyoming to stop use of gas and oil resources. The
National Land Conservation System would codify Clinton/Gore
National Monument designations. Right now, focus on energy.
Make your voice heard on land use issues, project by project.
Freedom of Information requests are a powerful tool.
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 “The
New Wars for the West” - Keynote Address by William
Perry Pendley, Esq., President and Chief Legal Officer, Mountain
States Legal Foundation, Lakewood, Colorado; Eleventh Annual
National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA, Albany,
N.Y., October 13, 2007)
Perry Pendley successfully defended John Shuller against
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when, in self-defense,
he shot a grizzly bear. He won the case for Larry Squires,
who wanted to allow disposal of oil field brine in dry sink
holes on his property. Mountain States Legal Foundation is
fighting for inholder access to their property blocked by
the U.S. Forest Service. Pendley has argued successfully three
times before the U.S. Supreme Court on the right of contract
regardless of race or ethnicity, against what is called “affirmative
action.”
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- “Understanding
Greenism” - By Jigs Gardner (PRFA, March 2007)
Environmentalism should be disassociated from Greenism,
considering that Greenism is the enemy of environmentalism.
Greenism opposes the evolutionary history of human environmentalism
and obstructs efforts at pollution control and progress by
creating false problems and promoting absurd, but self-righteous
visions of a return to pre-civilized society.
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 “Wild
Cities, Suburb Zoos, and Rural Atrocities” - 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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- “The
Pleistocene Park Project—Removing Civilization from North
America” - By Robert J. Smith, Adjunct Environmental
Scholar, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Speech to the Ninth
Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
Albany, N.Y., October 22, 2005)
Environmental scholars proposed in August 2005 to restore
the ecosystem and all the large animals that roamed North
America at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age, replacing extinct
mammals with Asian and African counterparts, including elephants,
lions, cheetahs, camels, wild horses and a giant tortoise,
while eliminating human beings from ten states from Canada
to Mexico, from the east edge of the Rockies to just west
of the Mississippi River. This is just the latest of radical
environmental proposals that are viewed as credible and explain
what the environmental leadership is about.
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 “The
Wildlands Program” - By Thomas M. Bennett, Maryville,
Tennessee, Sixth Annual New York Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, Nov. 2002)
While describing how The Wildlands Project’s
core, buffer, and corridor zones are meant to accomplish the
return of at least one-half of the land in North America to
wilderness with no human influence, “Matt”
Bennett of Treekeepers.org warns an unsuspecting populace
to be on the watch for “synergy,”
where the Wildlands vision is implemented piecemeal.
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 “Land
Grab by Conservation Easement” - By J. Zane Walley,
Speech, Sixth Annual New York Conference on Private Property
Rights (PRFA, Nov. 2002)
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is enlarging the Everglades
by using its canals to raise the water level in Dade County,
Florida - flooding an 8.5 square mile area where over 500
families live, ruining the avocado orchards and other farms,
and making the area uninhabitable. Transferable development
rights are also imposed to return the land to “Wildlands.”
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- “Beware
of Those Noxious Wildlife Corridors” — By Nate
Dickinson, Wildlife Biologist (PRFA, Aug 16, 2002)
Americans should wake up to the threat to traditional American
values posed by the pseudo-science of the Wildlands Project,
which is being used to advocate federal ownership of land
between “core” areas such as the Okefenokee
and Osceola National Forests in Florida.
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- A Trio of Articles on Wildlands and Conservation Easements
- “Pew
took a public misstep” - by Carol W. LaGrasse,
“President’s Corner,” Agri-News,
May 25, 2001
A refutation of the denials by Pew Charitable Trust
of its connection to the radical Wildlands Project and
of the connection of conservation easements to The Wildlands
Project.
- “Innuendo
and misstatement...” - Letter to the editor by
the Pew Charitable Trusts’ Director of Environmental
Programs, Joshua Reichert, which was published in Agri-News,
May 11, 2001.
Attacks the reprint of the John Elvin article asserting
the connection between wildlands and conservation easements.
- “Wildlands
and Conservation Easements-The Connection Between ’Em”
A brief summary of a reprinted version in Agri-News,
April 13, 2001, of an article by columnist John Elvin
in Insight magazine
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- “Wildlands
and the First Amendment” - by Carol W. LaGrasse,
excerpt from “The United States Constitution—The
Culmination of Human Rights Law,” Positions on Property,
Vol. 2, No. 4 (PRFA, July 1995)
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