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Alert, Obama Great Outdoors Meeting In LA, CA Thurs. July 8th
Private property, multiple-use, recreation and rural community
advocates must attend.
You may not get another chance.
This is a big deal. You do not want to miss out or find out later
that you lost rights because you failed to go to this listening
session.
-----There is a concept in law called “laches” or “sleeping on
your rights.” If you fail to participate in a planning process, you
may be prevented from asserting your rights in court later.
These listening sessions are the beginning of the Obama Great
Outdoors Initiative that will involve massive new land use controls
nationwide and new National Monuments. Until recently, only the
environmental groups and Congress were getting notified ahead of time
to the best of our knowledge.
Listening Session and Discussion Information:
When: Thursday - July 8, 2010, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Where: Thorne Hall
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA 90041 (See map at http://www.oxy.edu/x6307.xml)
This listening session is about the plan that is part of the battle
between the House Natural Resources Committee and the White House and
Interior Departments over the release of secret documents describing
the full extent of the Obama Great Outdoors Initiative.
We have included below the background information from the House
Natural Resources Committee effort to get the Obama Administration to
give up the secret documents about the whole Obama Great Outdoors
Initiative.
This will be the
only listening session in the Northwest so you need to go.
You do not have to sign up in advance The information to sign up by e-mail and fax are listed below.
-----Your attendance is critical.
It is vital that
you attend the LA meeting.
The three listening sessions in Montana had virtually no notice to
private property and multiple-use groups. The result was that many
people who support grazing, mining, logging, recreation, private
property and rural communities were not there.
It is vital that your side of the issue be represented. This is about
the Obama America’s Great Outdoors Initiative, Treasured Landscapes
and National Monument programs.
Millions of acres of private land will be purchased under threat of
eminent domain if this program goes forward. Red tape and strangling
regulations will in your future if you do not stand up and oppose the
Obama America’s Great Outdoors Initiative now.
The time to fight back is now, not later. You must hit them early.
You cannot miss this meeting.
-----Here is a recent Interior Department release:
Invitations to the America’s Great Outdoors public listening and
learning session for Washington were sent to stakeholder groups today
(read environmental groups). As you can see from the sample invitation
On April 16, the President established the America’s Great Outdoors
Initiative to promote and support innovative community-level efforts
to conserve outdoor spaces and reconnect Americans to the outdoors.
The Initiative is led by Secretaries Salazar and Vilsack, CEQ Chair
Sutley, and EPA Administrator Jackson, who recently sent a letter to
each Member and Senator to inform Congress about the Initiative.
Senior Administration officials are visiting sites and participating
in listening and learning sessions around the country, in communities
where diverse coalitions are working together in innovative ways to
protect and restore outdoor spaces.
These sessions are intended to engage the full range of interested
groups, including tribal leaders, farmers and ranchers, sportsmen,
community park groups, foresters, business people, educators, state
and local governments and recreation and conservation groups. Special
attention is being placed on bringing young Americans into the
conversation.
For more information, or to add your suggestions on this initiative,
please visit: http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/
Starting with the White House Conference on the Great Outdoors held
on April 16, President Obama launched a national dialogue about
conservation in America. As part of this dialogue, we are bringing
together ranchers, farmers and forest landowners, sportsmen and
women, state and local government leaders, tribal leaders,
public-lands experts, conservationists, youth leaders, business
representatives, and others to learn about some of the smart,
creative ways communities are conserving outdoor spaces.
NOTICE OF A PUBLIC LISTENING SESSION ON
THE PRESIDENT'S AMERICA'S GREAT OUTDOORS INITIATIVE
Please join senior representatives of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, the White House Council on Environmental Quality,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of the
Interior and the U.S. Department of Defense for a public listening
session and discussion in Southern California on conservation,
recreation, and reconnecting people to the outdoors. The session will
be held July 8 from 3:00 pm to 7:00 p.m. at Occidental College in Los
Angeles.
This past April, at the White House Conference on America's Great
Outdoors, President Obama launched the America's Great Outdoors
Initiative to develop a 21st century conservation agenda and to
reconnect Americans with our great outdoors. The President asked his
leadership team to engage the full range of interested groups,
including State and local governments, community-based organizations,
recreation and conservation groups, sporting organizations, youth
groups, and others.
This Los-Angeles based listening session, one of several being held
around the country, offers an opportunity to hear and describe the
challenges and opportunities we face in land and water conservation,
in improving recreational opportunities for a large urban population,
and in restoring and conserving our vital natural and cultural
resources to enable access to a broad array of outdoor recreation.
The July 8th public listening session and discussion is an
opportunity for the leaders of the America's Great Outdoors
Initiative to hear from you and other voices in the region about
solutions for building a 21st century conservation and recreation
agenda and for reconnecting people with the outdoors. Here are the
details:
Listening Session and Discussion Information:
When: Thursday - July 8, 2010, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Where: Thorne Hall
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA 90041 (See map at http://www.oxy.edu/x6307.xml)
Who: Senior national and local leaders from US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), President’s Council On Environmental
Quality (CEQ), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of the
Interior (DOI) and Department of Defense (DOD) (Corps of Engineers)
will be present to hear your recommendations and to participate in a
conversation with you about America's Great Outdoors.
Please This event is free and open to the public. For planning
purposes, please register by
Register: Thursday, July 1st by sending an email to sun.nelly@...
with your name, the name
of the organization with which you are affiliated, if any, your
telephone number and email address. We will endeavor to accommodate
everyone.
You are not required to register in advance but it is helpful.
In the event you are unable to participate in person, please submit
your comments and stories via the America's Great Outdoors website at
http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/.
If you have questions, please call Nelly Sun at (415) 947-4237. We
look forward to your participation - please join us!
For more information or copies of news releases contact:
Jonathan Jourdane
Office of External Affairs
Department of the Interior
202.208.5636
Jonathan_Jourdane@...
-----Here is the Obama America’s Great Outdoors Website:
http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/
-----Background Information:
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House Natural Resources Committee
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jill Strait or Spencer Pederson
Wednesday June 16, 2010 202-226-2311
Bipartisan Committee Vote Calls for Interior Department to Release
Secret National Monument Documents
WASHINGTON D.C. – The House Natural Resource Committee today
approved, with favorable recommendation, a Resolution of Inquiry (H.
Res. 1406) introduced by Ranking Member Doc Hastings and National
Parks, Forest and Public Lands Subcommittee Ranking Member Rob Bishop
to direct the Department of Interior to turn over to Congress the
missing pages and related documents of an “internal memo”
detailing plans to potentially designate 13 million acres of new
National Monuments.
“We now have a strong bipartisan agreement that the Interior
Department needs to reveal to the public exactly what plans are
underway to unilaterally lock-up millions of acres of land across the
country by designating them as National Monuments,” said Ranking
Member Hastings. “I hope the Department takes today’s actions by
the Committee seriously and discloses the documents that we have
requested promptly and without further delay. If not, they can be
assured that Republicans will continue this fight until Interior
turns over all the missing pages.”
Additional Views
The Honorable Doc Hastings
House Resolution 1406
This is the second Resolution of Inquiry offered by Reps. Hastings
and Bishop. On May 5, 2010 the Democrat Majority voted down a motion
to favorable report the first Resolution of Inquiry, H. Res. 1254,
out of Committee.
To date, only pages 15-21 of the “internal memo” have been
revealed. Despite repeated requests, DOI continues to withhold pages
1-14 and pages 22 and higher. While DOI has turned over 383 pages of
emails and documents, they continue to purposely withhold 2,016 of
related documents.
The proposed National Monument designations would lock-up millions of
acres of land without public knowledge or input, threatening the
livelihood of rural Americans and communities in the Western United
States. It could kill jobs, block recreational opportunities and
restrict access to American energy resources. This is why local
communities such as Siskiyou County, CA and Otero County, NM have
passed Resolutions and Ordinances opposing any National Monument
expansions.
# # #
http://republicans.resourcescommittee.house.gov
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Obama launches America's Great Outdoors conservation initiative
By Juliet Eilperin and Scott Wilson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, April 17, 2010; A02
President Obama launched the America's Great Outdoors initiative
Friday, an attempt to reshape U.S. conservation policy at a time when
the nation is facing new environmental threats but the government is
hard-pressed to afford new spending programs.
In a brief speech at the Interior Department, Obama said he intends
to build on "a breathtaking legacy of conservation that still
enhances our lives." He said the tradition began with Theodore
Roosevelt, whom he described as "one of my favorite presidents,"
although he added, "I will probably never shoot a bear."
Obama said the nation's growing population, pollution and other
factors are "putting a rising strain on our lands." He said
government cannot address conservation issues alone, and he urged
private industry, local communities, Native American leaders and
volunteers to help protect the outdoors.
"Even in times of crisis, we're called to take the long view to
preserve our national heritage, because in doing so, we fulfill one
of the responsibilities that falls to all of us as Americans and as
inhabitants of this same small planet," Obama said. "And that is the
responsibility that we are rising to meet today."
Obama signed a memorandum sketching out broad goals that the
administration hopes to pursue in the next few years: forming
coalitions with state and local governments and the private sector;
encouraging outdoor recreation by Americans; connecting wildlife
migration corridors; and encouraging the sustainable use of private
land.
Four administration officials -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar,
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Nancy Sutley, who chairs the White
House Council on Environmental Quality -- will spearhead the effort.
"It's really about getting people to think about the great outdoors
again and recognize what a tremendous asset it is to our country,"
Vilsack said in an interview.
American children are spending half as much time outside as their
parents did, according to the Interior Department, and the country
loses 2 million acres a year to development. Government officials
worry about the effect of land conversion on natural resources: The
Maryland Office of Planning projects that more land in the region
surrounding the Chesapeake Bay will have been converted
to housing between 1995 and 2020 than in the previous 3 1/2
centuries.
Sierra Club Chairman Carl Pope, who was among the environmental
leaders attending Friday's day-long conference to launch the
initiative, said he hoped a broad coalition of partners will be
encouraged to reengage on public-lands issues.
It remains unclear how much the government can afford to spend on
such programs in the future. The National Park Service alone
estimates that it would need an extra $9.5 billion to clear a backlog
of repairs and improvements. View all comments that have been posted
about this article on the Washington Post Company website.
2010 The Washington Post Company
You can go to the America Outdoors website and post a comment.
Please make sure you attend this listening session.
Chuck Cushman
American Land Rights Association
ccushman@... <mailto:ccushman@...>
(360) 687-3087
Please forward this message as widely as possible. This is a historic
issue.
It is incredibly important for you to forward this message. By
forwarding the message, you can help get millions of copies of this
critically important e-mail distributed. Thank you in advance for
your help.
Private property, multiple-use, recreation and rural community
advocates must attend.
You may not get another chance.
This is a big deal. You do not want to miss out or find out later
that you lost rights because you failed to go to this listening
session.
-----There is a concept in law called “laches” or “sleeping on
your rights.” If you fail to participate in a planning process, you
may be prevented from asserting your rights in court later.
These listening sessions are the beginning of the Obama Great
Outdoors Initiative that will involve massive new land use controls
nationwide and new National Monuments. Until recently, only the
environmental groups and Congress were getting notified ahead of time
to the best of our knowledge.
Listening Session and Discussion Information:
When: Thursday - July 8, 2010, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Where: Thorne Hall
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA 90041 (See map at http://www.oxy.edu/x6307.xml)
This listening session is about the plan that is part of the battle
between the House Natural Resources Committee and the White House and
Interior Departments over the release of secret documents describing
the full extent of the Obama Great Outdoors Initiative.
We have included below the background information from the House
Natural Resources Committee effort to get the Obama Administration to
give up the secret documents about the whole Obama Great Outdoors
Initiative.
This will be the
only listening session in the Northwest so you need to go.
You do not have to sign up in advance The information to sign up by e-mail and fax are listed below.
-----Your attendance is critical.
It is vital that
you attend the LA meeting.
The three listening sessions in Montana had virtually no notice to
private property and multiple-use groups. The result was that many
people who support grazing, mining, logging, recreation, private
property and rural communities were not there.
It is vital that your side of the issue be represented. This is about
the Obama America’s Great Outdoors Initiative, Treasured Landscapes
and National Monument programs.
Millions of acres of private land will be purchased under threat of
eminent domain if this program goes forward. Red tape and strangling
regulations will in your future if you do not stand up and oppose the
Obama America’s Great Outdoors Initiative now.
The time to fight back is now, not later. You must hit them early.
You cannot miss this meeting.
-----Here is a recent Interior Department release:
Invitations to the America’s Great Outdoors public listening and
learning session for Washington were sent to stakeholder groups today
(read environmental groups). As you can see from the sample invitation
On April 16, the President established the America’s Great Outdoors
Initiative to promote and support innovative community-level efforts
to conserve outdoor spaces and reconnect Americans to the outdoors.
The Initiative is led by Secretaries Salazar and Vilsack, CEQ Chair
Sutley, and EPA Administrator Jackson, who recently sent a letter to
each Member and Senator to inform Congress about the Initiative.
Senior Administration officials are visiting sites and participating
in listening and learning sessions around the country, in communities
where diverse coalitions are working together in innovative ways to
protect and restore outdoor spaces.
These sessions are intended to engage the full range of interested
groups, including tribal leaders, farmers and ranchers, sportsmen,
community park groups, foresters, business people, educators, state
and local governments and recreation and conservation groups. Special
attention is being placed on bringing young Americans into the
conversation.
For more information, or to add your suggestions on this initiative,
please visit: http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/
Starting with the White House Conference on the Great Outdoors held
on April 16, President Obama launched a national dialogue about
conservation in America. As part of this dialogue, we are bringing
together ranchers, farmers and forest landowners, sportsmen and
women, state and local government leaders, tribal leaders,
public-lands experts, conservationists, youth leaders, business
representatives, and others to learn about some of the smart,
creative ways communities are conserving outdoor spaces.
NOTICE OF A PUBLIC LISTENING SESSION ON
THE PRESIDENT'S AMERICA'S GREAT OUTDOORS INITIATIVE
Please join senior representatives of the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency, the White House Council on Environmental Quality,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Department of the
Interior and the U.S. Department of Defense for a public listening
session and discussion in Southern California on conservation,
recreation, and reconnecting people to the outdoors. The session will
be held July 8 from 3:00 pm to 7:00 p.m. at Occidental College in Los
Angeles.
This past April, at the White House Conference on America's Great
Outdoors, President Obama launched the America's Great Outdoors
Initiative to develop a 21st century conservation agenda and to
reconnect Americans with our great outdoors. The President asked his
leadership team to engage the full range of interested groups,
including State and local governments, community-based organizations,
recreation and conservation groups, sporting organizations, youth
groups, and others.
This Los-Angeles based listening session, one of several being held
around the country, offers an opportunity to hear and describe the
challenges and opportunities we face in land and water conservation,
in improving recreational opportunities for a large urban population,
and in restoring and conserving our vital natural and cultural
resources to enable access to a broad array of outdoor recreation.
The July 8th public listening session and discussion is an
opportunity for the leaders of the America's Great Outdoors
Initiative to hear from you and other voices in the region about
solutions for building a 21st century conservation and recreation
agenda and for reconnecting people with the outdoors. Here are the
details:
Listening Session and Discussion Information:
When: Thursday - July 8, 2010, 3:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Where: Thorne Hall
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA 90041 (See map at http://www.oxy.edu/x6307.xml)
Who: Senior national and local leaders from US Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA), President’s Council On Environmental
Quality (CEQ), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), Department of the
Interior (DOI) and Department of Defense (DOD) (Corps of Engineers)
will be present to hear your recommendations and to participate in a
conversation with you about America's Great Outdoors.
Please This event is free and open to the public. For planning
purposes, please register by
Register: Thursday, July 1st by sending an email to sun.nelly@...
with your name, the name
of the organization with which you are affiliated, if any, your
telephone number and email address. We will endeavor to accommodate
everyone.
You are not required to register in advance but it is helpful.
In the event you are unable to participate in person, please submit
your comments and stories via the America's Great Outdoors website at
http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/.
If you have questions, please call Nelly Sun at (415) 947-4237. We
look forward to your participation - please join us!
For more information or copies of news releases contact:
Jonathan Jourdane
Office of External Affairs
Department of the Interior
202.208.5636
Jonathan_Jourdane@...
-----Here is the Obama America’s Great Outdoors Website:
http://www.doi.gov/americasgreatoutdoors/
-----Background Information:
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
House Natural Resources Committee
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Jill Strait or Spencer Pederson
Wednesday June 16, 2010 202-226-2311
Bipartisan Committee Vote Calls for Interior Department to Release
Secret National Monument Documents
WASHINGTON D.C. – The House Natural Resource Committee today
approved, with favorable recommendation, a Resolution of Inquiry (H.
Res. 1406) introduced by Ranking Member Doc Hastings and National
Parks, Forest and Public Lands Subcommittee Ranking Member Rob Bishop
to direct the Department of Interior to turn over to Congress the
missing pages and related documents of an “internal memo”
detailing plans to potentially designate 13 million acres of new
National Monuments.
“We now have a strong bipartisan agreement that the Interior
Department needs to reveal to the public exactly what plans are
underway to unilaterally lock-up millions of acres of land across the
country by designating them as National Monuments,” said Ranking
Member Hastings. “I hope the Department takes today’s actions by
the Committee seriously and discloses the documents that we have
requested promptly and without further delay. If not, they can be
assured that Republicans will continue this fight until Interior
turns over all the missing pages.”
Additional Views
The Honorable Doc Hastings
House Resolution 1406
This is the second Resolution of Inquiry offered by Reps. Hastings
and Bishop. On May 5, 2010 the Democrat Majority voted down a motion
to favorable report the first Resolution of Inquiry, H. Res. 1254,
out of Committee.
To date, only pages 15-21 of the “internal memo” have been
revealed. Despite repeated requests, DOI continues to withhold pages
1-14 and pages 22 and higher. While DOI has turned over 383 pages of
emails and documents, they continue to purposely withhold 2,016 of
related documents.
The proposed National Monument designations would lock-up millions of
acres of land without public knowledge or input, threatening the
livelihood of rural Americans and communities in the Western United
States. It could kill jobs, block recreational opportunities and
restrict access to American energy resources. This is why local
communities such as Siskiyou County, CA and Otero County, NM have
passed Resolutions and Ordinances opposing any National Monument
expansions.
# # #
http://republicans.resourcescommittee.house.gov
Facebook | YouTube | Twitter
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Obama launches America's Great Outdoors conservation initiative
By Juliet Eilperin and Scott Wilson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, April 17, 2010; A02
President Obama launched the America's Great Outdoors initiative
Friday, an attempt to reshape U.S. conservation policy at a time when
the nation is facing new environmental threats but the government is
hard-pressed to afford new spending programs.
In a brief speech at the Interior Department, Obama said he intends
to build on "a breathtaking legacy of conservation that still
enhances our lives." He said the tradition began with Theodore
Roosevelt, whom he described as "one of my favorite presidents,"
although he added, "I will probably never shoot a bear."
Obama said the nation's growing population, pollution and other
factors are "putting a rising strain on our lands." He said
government cannot address conservation issues alone, and he urged
private industry, local communities, Native American leaders and
volunteers to help protect the outdoors.
"Even in times of crisis, we're called to take the long view to
preserve our national heritage, because in doing so, we fulfill one
of the responsibilities that falls to all of us as Americans and as
inhabitants of this same small planet," Obama said. "And that is the
responsibility that we are rising to meet today."
Obama signed a memorandum sketching out broad goals that the
administration hopes to pursue in the next few years: forming
coalitions with state and local governments and the private sector;
encouraging outdoor recreation by Americans; connecting wildlife
migration corridors; and encouraging the sustainable use of private
land.
Four administration officials -- Interior Secretary Ken Salazar,
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator Lisa P. Jackson and Nancy Sutley, who chairs the White
House Council on Environmental Quality -- will spearhead the effort.
"It's really about getting people to think about the great outdoors
again and recognize what a tremendous asset it is to our country,"
Vilsack said in an interview.
American children are spending half as much time outside as their
parents did, according to the Interior Department, and the country
loses 2 million acres a year to development. Government officials
worry about the effect of land conversion on natural resources: The
Maryland Office of Planning projects that more land in the region
surrounding the Chesapeake Bay will have been converted
to housing between 1995 and 2020 than in the previous 3 1/2
centuries.
Sierra Club Chairman Carl Pope, who was among the environmental
leaders attending Friday's day-long conference to launch the
initiative, said he hoped a broad coalition of partners will be
encouraged to reengage on public-lands issues.
It remains unclear how much the government can afford to spend on
such programs in the future. The National Park Service alone
estimates that it would need an extra $9.5 billion to clear a backlog
of repairs and improvements. View all comments that have been posted
about this article on the Washington Post Company website.
2010 The Washington Post Company
You can go to the America Outdoors website and post a comment.
Please make sure you attend this listening session.
Chuck Cushman
American Land Rights Association
ccushman@... <mailto:ccushman@...>
(360) 687-3087
Please forward this message as widely as possible. This is a historic
issue.
It is incredibly important for you to forward this message. By
forwarding the message, you can help get millions of copies of this
critically important e-mail distributed. Thank you in advance for
your help.
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