Travel Management Planning is just one step towards complete closure. Let me show you how.
It's hard for your average person to comprehend a scenario where non-governmental organizations buy up rural private property to create wildlife preserves with a goal to turn 50% of the United States into Wilderness. If you're concerned about road closures, then strap on your tinfoil hat and get ready for this one.By: Kevin M. Allard
Kevin is a constitutional conservative and the founder of Arizona Backcountry Explorers. When he's not adventuring in the Arizona backcountry, he spends his time burning iron behind a welding hood. He is privileged to write for 4low Magazine, and some of his work is available in the Western Journalism Foundation. Through these unique opportunities, he feels fully obligated to forwarn our community of the changes we face.Road closures suck, I think we can all agree on that. When a backroad is closed, it hinders access to some of the most beautiful places in western America. Our elders and children are quickly losing those memorable places that we once enjoyed. Environmentalists suck too. They say the western way of life damages the environment. But the truth is, the everyday environmentalist, and even the professional biologists are as manipulated as a cigar that cures cancer. They say we disturb wildlife, destroy artifacts, cause erosion, and pollute the earth. But yet, if you spend any time in nature, you will see life flourish.
The idea to create more and more wilderness and protected areas is becoming a religion. Many firmly believe the only way to sustain life on earth is to encapsulate ourselves in modern sustainable cities. It's a collective think-tank consisting of non-governmental organizations from around the world. Together they create policy and set the standards for many environmental issues. The only way to achieve their goal is a complete rearrangement of human society.
The Wildlands Project
If you've never heard of the Wildlands Project, well, I'm glad you're here. For years the project has been called a conspiracy theory. Despite the criticism, it is a fact that non-governmental organizations are working on completing a wilderness system that makes today's environmental policy look like child's play. It is not a law or regulation. It's a call to action for all environmentalists of the early 1990s and thereafter. When you take a look at this plan, you start to realize travel management and resource management planning is just one step towards re-wilding America.
There is no doubt that Dr. Reed Noss has some rather extreme views. As you read the bizarre document, you see a complete correspondence with the current policy that is closing roads across America. It's the outright admittance of the radical environmentalist ideology. It's a broad idea to "grope our way back to October of 1492." Dr. Noss wishes to redefine what a wilderness area is and how wildlife conservation is governed. He lays out a complete plan to close roads and designated those areas as wilderness.
In the Wildlands Project, Dr. Noss writes,
(Page 15) "I suggest that at least half of the land area of the 48 conterminous states should be encompassed in core reserves and inner corridor zones (essential extensions of core reserves) with the next few decades; I also believe that this could be done without great economic hardship. Nonetheless, half of a region in wilderness is a reasonable guess of what it will take to restore viable populations of rare carnivores and natural disturbance regimes, assuming that most of the other 50 percent is managed intelligently as buffer zones."
(Page 28) "Look also for National Forests, BLM lands, state forests, county lands, military reservations, and the like. All of these public lands must play a major role in a Wilderness Recovery Network.
Finally, look for the gaps between wildlands or public lands. Such private lands often will be important areas for acquisition by public agencies or by private groups like The Nature Conservancy. Even in public land-rich regions like the West, such gaps are significant, but they are especially crucial in the East where there is much less public land and where large private holdings are critical elements for Wilderness Recovery Networks. (Look at the two sidebars accompanying this article. One lists the large roadless area complexes in the West that should serve as Wilderness Cores. The other identities key areas east of the Rocky Mountains, which are priorities for public land acquisition, consolidation, and wilderness recovery, order to serve as Wilderness Cores. These lists are for the United States only.)
Read the special issue of Wild Earth HERE.
"Sustainability" the new religion
The term sustainable development was coined by a woman named Gro Harlem Brundtland. She served three terms as Norwegian Prime Minister between 1989 and 1996. An active member of the Labor Party, she entered government in 1974 as Minister of The Environment in Norway. She later became president of Socialist International. After her resignation as Prime Minister, she became an international leader in sustainable development. Likewise, she served as director of the World Health Organization and currently serves as Deputy Chair of The Elders.In 1983 Brundtland was appointed to establish and chair the United Nations World Commission on Environment and Development (WCED) that later became known as the Brundtland Commission. In 1987 the Brundtland Commission published its report called Our Common Future. The report paved the way for many United Nations treaties that formed environmental policy around the world, including the United States.
The Clinton administration signed several UN treaties, including The Convention On Biological Diversity. The agreement calls for all member states to produce a Global Biodiversity Assessment. In 1992, the first Global Biodiversity Assessment was published under a grant from the Global Environment Facility in coordination with the World Resources Institute and the World Wildlife Fund. It has since been adopted by the International Union For The Conservation Of Nature as a guide for lawmakers to implement the treaty at the local level. In the Global Biological Assessment, it explains the Wildlands Project will be the central theme for wildlife species protection in America.
The plan to re-wild Arizona
"My goal is healthy herds for American hunters and wildlife watchers, and this order will help establish better migration corridors for some of North America's most iconic big game species like elk, mule deer and antelope," said Secretary Zinke in a Department of Interior press release.
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In October of 2019, The Arizona Game And Fish published their action plan (PDF) titled, "Improving Habitat. Quality in Western Big Game Winter Range and Migration Corridors." In this plan of action, AZGF, along with non-governmental organizations, and Federal agencies identified several wildlife corridors across Arizona. Multiple numbers of big game species were collared and tracked from their winter to summer range. As a result, this study does show how major highways impact the migration of wildlife.
I think many of us could agree that we should do something to help wildlife move freely across highways. However, the Arizona Game and Fish suggests agriculture, grazing, private property, and mining are causing fragmentation of wildlife corridors. They even mention the Four Forest Restoration Initiative to tailor their needs for future wildlife corridors. The Arizona Game And Fish project is a direct correlation with the Wildlands Project. In fact, the Wildlands Network praises Secretary Zinkie for his decision.