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Additional Helpful Organizations STOP Stop Taking Our Property Bill Theis, President Focuses on National Park Service and the Indiana Dunes National Seashore. One of the nation’s most respected property rights groups. address Additional Resources United Four Wheel Drive Associations, Inc. ...An International Organization Publishes “United’s Voice - The Newsletter of the United Four Wheel Drive Associations” and is a legislative advocate for Four Wheelers and access to government-owned lands. address Websites Indiana State General Assembly link

State News “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 “Chicago Biosphere Reserve Considered by Steering Committee” — By Wesley Sholtes, Contributing Writer, (PRFA, February 15, 2003) Chicago Wilderness, a committee involving a coalition of over 160 government agencies, non-profit organizations, environmental groups, and other private entitles, is clamoring for a U.N. Biosphere Reserve to encompass the City of Chicago and 10 counties in southeastern Wisconsin, northeastern Illinois, and northwestern Indiana. More on this topic: Biosphere Reserves & World Heritage Sites “Hydroelectric Dams Subject to FERC Relicensing—1998-2010” - from Positions on Property, Vol. 4, No. 1 (PRFA, Nov. 1998) (Jump to Indiana information) More on this topic: National Dam Relicensing under the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) “Existing and Tentative U. N. World Heritage Sites in the United States”-reprinted from Positions on Property, Vol. 4, No. 1 (Nov. 1998) (Jump to Indiana information) More on this topic: Biosphere Reserves & World Heritage Sites “Unrepentant Congress—Congressional Legislation and Farmers Home Administration Destroy Family Farms” — By Carol W. LaGrasse (Reprinted from Positions on Property, Vol. 2, No., 3, PRFA July, 1995) The 130-year old family farm owned by Bart Dye near the Hoosier National Forest in southwestern Indiana was illegally seized by the Farmers Home Administration (now the Farm Services Agency), then encumbered with wetlands and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conservation easements to block “buyback.” More on this topic: Government Land Ownership and Control — Nat’l

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