“Mexican Drug Cartels Are Growing Marijuana in
U.S. National Parks and Forests,”
News Brief, PRFA, August 2007
December 15, 2001:
Citizens of Tiny Arizona Town Battle The Nature Conservancy to
Keep Water Rights-
A December press
release from Randy Heiss on behalf of Unidos Hacemos Fuerza,
(address) a
grassroots group whose name signifies the strength that comes
from unity, describes their struggle against the Nature Conservancy
(TNC) to protect the water rights of the residents of the town.
The citizens are using a ballot referendum to try to stop TNC
from grabbing rights to more water flow than is regularly available
from the Sonoita Creek. TNC claims its stream flow data are more
accurate than that of the USGS. TNC wants to use the water to
preserve the endangered Gila topminnow, according to Mr. Heiss.
Press Release-Unidos
Hacemos Fuerza
Additional Resources
“Biosphere Reserves in Action: Case Studies
of the American Experience:
Published by the United States Man and the Biosphere Program
(U.S. MAB, June 1995.”
Includes studies of 12 major UNESCO Biosphere Reserves in the
U.S.
The Biosphere Reserves in Arizona:
6. International
Sonoran Desert Alliance
map
link
to main page
See our
Biosphere Reserves
Index Page
for links to all 12 studies
Websites
SUANews.com
Chuck Diaz, President
The Speak Up America newspaper, so much appreciated by the property
rights movement, is now the Speak Up America web site, both in
English and Spanish.
For the first time or place, anyone in a Spanish-speaking country
will be able to read articles by Mona Charen, Walter Williams,
Thomas Sowell and Chuck Diaz.
www.suanews.com
address
Chilton Ranch, Arivaca, Arizona
www.chiltonranch.com
The Chilton website focuses on their successsful lawsuit against
the Center for Biodiversity.
address
Arizona State Legislature
link
Arizona State Senate
link
Arizona State House of Representatives
link
Governor of Arizona
link
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State News
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 “National
& International Land Use Planning” - Peyton Knight,
Director of Environmental & Regulatory Affairs, The National
Center for Public Policy Research, Washington, D.C., Eleventh
Annual National Conference on Private Property Rights (PRFA,
Albany, N. Y., October 13, 2007)
A National Heritage Area facilitates national land use planning
as a preservation-driven congressional pork-barrel designation
created in conjunction with the National Park Service and private
interest groups to influence decisions over local land use to
preserve natural, historical, cultural, educational, scenic,
and recreational resources. UNESCO World Heritage Site designations
are an international tool to push land use restrictions on the
sites and land surrounding them.
More on this
topic: National
Park Service
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 “New
Wave of UNESCO World Heritage Sites Proposed” - By Carol
W. LaGrasse (PRFA Position Brief, June 2007)
This spring, the National Park Service announced that 36 locations
in the United States have been proposed for UNESCO World Heritage
Sites, adding to the twenty that already are designated in this
country. Such international recognition potentially threatens
private property rights because preservationists could exploit
the designation to stop the use of land in the region just beyond
a site’s borders.
More on this
topic: Biosphere
Reserves & World Heritage Sites
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 “Adverse
Possession and Open Range” - by Jack Herzberg (Property
Rights Foundation of America, September 2004)
James and Carla Davis intend to use their range land in Pinal
County, Arizona, to enjoy their retirement and develop an old
west town. Instead, they find themselves in court defending against
the claim of Joe and Carmen Auza, who assert adverse possession
in the spurious basis that they’ve been grazing animals
on the Davis’s property.
More on this
topic: Adverse
Possession
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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 (Property Rights Foundation
of America, 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.
More on this
topic: Private
Property Rights — National
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- “The
Arizona Property Rights Referendum” - Presented 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 (Property Rights
Foundation of America, 1995)
“Takings” implications of proposed governmental
actions shall be assessed by the office of the Attorney General
and permit requirements shall minimize restrictions on private
property.
More on this
topic: Private
Property Rights — National
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