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The graphic above is one of many maps from The
Wildlands Project (TWP) website that show TWP’s plan for our country.
The wide arrowed areas show lands that TWP wants set aside for animals,
especially reintroduced large predators. (The prairie lands that such
organizations want to dedicate to buffalo are not included in this
graphic.) TWP’s website has maps for various areas and asserts:.
“From the Yukon tundra to the high deserts of Mexico,
bears, wolves, native trout, and other wild animals are struggling. The
West is being fractured into small slivers. Logging, mining, real estate
development, oil and gas drilling are destroying habitat and stranding
wildlife in isolated islands of backcountry.
“That’s why the Wildlands Project’s team of
conservation biologists and partner groups have created maps and
plans—from the grand scale down to the local level—that link parks,
wilderness areas, and other large areas of protected lands through
corridors of connected natural habitat—such as wildlife refuges, state
parks, national forests, and local land trust holdings... It is a strategy
the Wildlands Project and partner groups are putting into practice now
along the spine of the Rocky Mountains...”
(The website neglected to mention that private lands are also
included in their plans. See the plans that TWP is working hard to
implement at www.wildlandsproject.org/roomtoroam/connected/.
-Ed.)
Yukon
to Yucatan
Proponents of The Wildlands Project (TWP) (the plan to
‘re-wild’ 50% of the United States) are beginning their propaganda
push to secure vast areas of the continental United States from the Yukon
in Alaska to Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula as a migration corridor for
grizzly bears and wolves. Of particular concern are five areas it
considers especially threatening to wildlife, like Interstate 70 through
central Colorado and I-40 east of Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Jan Clanahan, TWP regional director, asserts that large
carnivores need the space that humans now occupy. “It’s a big plan...
call it a 100-year vision,” she said. “The first step is, you need to
get out there and talk to everyone... (w)e’re talking to (federal)
agencies, the landowners, other conservation groups, local community
leaders.” Clanahan hopes the blueprint influences the planning of the
U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.
The Wildlands Project is a radical plan. Its website
states; “It is not enough to preserve the roadless, undeveloped country
remaining. We must re-create wilderness in large regions: move out the
cars and civilized people, dismantle the roads and dams, reclaim the
plowed land and clearcuts, re-introduce extirpated species.”
(Source:
www.libertymatters.org)
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