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Keep our lands safe from the KOCH BROTHERS!

Our public lands are at risk like they never have been before. Right now is our moment to fight as hard as we can to protect America’s irreplaceable landscapes. Will you join us?

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In less than 50 days, the Land Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) will expire – the program that for decades has helped to protect our most iconic parks like the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, and Big Sur. Without it, parks across the country – everything from nationally-significant landscapes to city parks and baseball diamonds – that deserve protection will lose critical funding. This is exactly what Koch brothers-backed groups are pushing for so that many of these lands will be opened for logging, drilling, and mining.

LWCF has helped protect our beautiful public lands for decades. We can’t let the LWCF – and our future parks – disappear because of polluter interests. Send a message to Congress today and tell them our public lands are too precious to lose.

#koch industries #koch brothers #Environment #national parks #national monuments #public lands #open space #recreation

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The Return of the Public-Land Privatizers

Not more than a million years ago, in the spring of 2001, I wrote my first story for Field & Stream about the movement to privatize America’s public lands, chiseling the words onto an old granite slab by the light of a buffalo fat candle. The land grabbers seemed to have the world by the tail then. Gale Norton, a veteran of the anti-environmental law firm Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF), had been appointed the Secretary of the Interior. (James Watt, Reagan’s controversial and short-lived Interior Secretary, best remembered for his dislike of the Beach Boys, had been Norton’s boss at MSLF.) Norton’s colleague, Terry Anderson, had published his 1999 study “How and Why to Privatize Federal Lands.” Anderson had also been an advisor to George W. Bush on public lands issues, which was a bit like hiring a fox to consult on chicken coop management challenges. For those who had their hopes pinned on public land profiteering, 2001 was a heady, optimistic time, and much was accomplished--if not actual privatization, then at least the near-wholesale conversion of some of the West’s public lands into single-use energy fields, with exemptions from the Clean Air Act, the Safe Drinking Water Act, Clean Water Act, and from regulations meant to protect wildlife.

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Source: fieldandstream.com

#public land #national parks #vactions #travel #environment #conservation

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The Six Craziest Arguments Politicians Are Making Against Protecting National Parks And Wildlife

No, state control of national forests won't prevent terrorism.

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Reintroducing wolves would solve the “homeless problem”
State control of national forests would mean fewer terrorists
Environmental protections enable “drug cartels and human smugglers”
Drinking water protections will regulate “your grandmother’s bird bath”
Obama will “negotiate with Iran,” but not on Alaska oil drilling
Obama is an “imperialist” or a monarch for conserving public lands

The only reason that they get away with this is because no one is paying attention to this nonsense.

#recreation #vacations #national parks #enviornment #wildlife #patrimony #Congress

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This closure is in response to a significant increase in wood poaching crimes occurring along the parkway. These crimes usually involve cutting burl and bunion growths from both standing and fallen old-growth redwood trees. The wood is then sold for construction materials, ornamental furniture, and souvenirs. This type of wood is becoming increasingly rare and the most plentiful supply is often found on park lands.

Redwood National and State Parks| Newton Drury Parkway will be Closed at Night Due to Increased Wood Poaching

Source: nps.gov

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