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.
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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.
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Websites
Indiana State
General Assembly
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State News
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 “Testimony
by Carol W. LaGrasse, President, Property Rights Foundation of
America, Inc., Before the Committee on Natural Resources , U.S.
House of Representatives, in Opposition to H.R. 4003, Hudson
River Valley Special Resource Study Act, January 21, 2010”
This vaguely worded bill proposed by Rep. Maurice Hinchey
appears to propose a study of all of twelve counties abutting
the Hudson River (with their population exceeding three million)
from Saratoga and Washington Counties to the northern boundaries
of New York City and New Jersey for inclusion as a new unit of
the National Park Service. The bill is dangerous to private property
rights. Park Service eminent domain excesses include Cuyahoga
National Recreation Area, Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore, and
others. Tax impact, access interference, and other important
potential negative impacts are discussed.
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topic: National
Park Service
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- “PRFA
is Friend of the Court in Appeal of Wymberley Eminent Domain”
- By Carol W. LaGrasse, PRFA, June 21, 2009
The Property Rights Foundation of America, Inc., has joined
in filing an amicus curiae, or friend of the court, brief
to the Indiana Supreme Court in support of a petition to transfer
for an appeal by landowners where the Indiana Court of Appeals
ruled in favor of Wymberley Sanitary Works, a utility, in its
disputed use of its power of eminent domain.
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topic: Eminent
Domain—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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- “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.
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topic: Biosphere
Reserves & World Heritage Sites
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