Colorado
Farm Bureau
Call to Action - H.B. 1203
April 21, 2004
Sponsored by Rep. Shawn Mitchell & Sen. Mark Hillman
This bill prohibits the transfer
of property acquired by a government entity or urban renewal
authority through eminent domain from being transferred to a
private party.The bill condemns a city or town from condemning
property outside of its boundaries to protect open space.
Additional Helpful
Organizations
Mountain States Legal Foundation
address
Also publishes quarterly newsletter “The Litigator”
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 Colorado:
4. Colorado
Rockies Regional Cooperative
map
link
to main page
See our
Biosphere Reserves
Index Page
for links to all 12 studies
Websites
Mountain States Legal Foundation
www.mountainstateslegal.org
Colorado State General Assembly
(House & Senate)
link
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State News
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 “Statement
in Opposition to Issuance of Tax-exempt Bonds to Finance The
Nature Conservancy Acquisition of the former Finch, Pruyn &
Co. Lands” - By Carol W. LaGrasse, President, Property
Rights Foundation of America, Inc., December 2, 2008 (Public
Hearing held by the Colorado Educational and Cultural Facilities
Authority, City of Glens Falls, N.Y.)
The proposed issuance of $45 million in tax exempt bonds by
the Colorado authority to refinance The Nature Conservancy’s
borrowing to acquire the 160,540 acres of Finch, Pruyn &
Co. lands in the Adirondack “Park” should
be disapproved by the IRS because the transfer of this acreage
in fee simple and perpetual conservation easements will foreclose
forever the development of these lands, further desiccating the
economy and future of the communities. About 100 square miles
of the tract, the finest timber producing land, would be transmitted
in fee simple to become part of the “forever wild”
Forest Preserve, where logging would be prohibited.
More on this
topic: Preservation
vs. the Future of the North Country
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- John Maye Personal
Statement Against Tax-exempt Bonds for The Nature Conservancy
- Transcript from public hearing held by the Colorado Educational
and Cultural Facilities Authority at City Hall, Glens Falls,
N.Y., December 2, 2008
After John Maye and his wife moved into their camp, The Nature
Conservancy approached the couple several times to sell their
property, but they weren’t interested. “The
Nature Conservancy was aware of the conjured up violations by
APA and DEC to force the sale of my property…March 28, 2008
my total maximum penalty was $2,962,000…” The
enforcement penalty was dropped after four years, but the toll
on his health remains great.
More on this
topic: Preservation
vs. the Future of the North Country
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- Letter in Opposition
to Tax-exempt Bonds for The Nature Conservancy to Acquire Land
in the Adirondacks - By Howard Aubin, Councilman, Town of
Black Brook, N.Y., E-mail to Frederic H. Marienthal, Attorney
for Colorado Educational and Cultural Facilities Authority, November
25, 2008
Requirements of IRS Code Sec. 147 for local government approval
have not been met. In addition, The Nature Conservancy contacted
an elderly couple this summer to buy their property and when
the couple refused to sell, the Adirondack Park Agency threatened
the couple with a $2.962 million fine. “Giving such
a bond to the Nature Conservancy only helps them to terrorize
more people within the Adirondacks.”
More on this
topic: Preservation
vs. the Future of the North Country
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- “Colorado
Tax-Exempt Bonds for TNC’s New York Land-Grab”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse, PRFA, November 2008
The Nature Conservancy is looking to the Colorado Educational
and Cultural Facilities Authority to rescue it from the level
of interest payments it is experiencing on $45 million that it
borrowed to acquire 160,540 acres of forestland in the Adirondacks
from paper manufacturer Finch, Pruyn and Co. to flip to the state
as “Forever wild” Forest Preserve and
conservation easements.
More on this
topic: Preservation
vs. the Future of the North Country
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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.”
More on this
topic: Endangered
Species & Wildlife—National
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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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- “Horse Tale”
—By Kit Shy (Reprinted by permission, 2001)
The rancher’s story, “Hoss Tale,”
by surveyor Kit Shy of Westcliffe, Colorado, uses allegory to
show how the bundle of rights attached to private property will
be desiccated under conservation easements. You don’t
know whether to laugh or cry.
More on this
topic: Conservation
Easements
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