Showing posts with label Conservancy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservancy. Show all posts

Saturday, September 22, 2012

Update on the status of the Whatcom County, Lake Whatcom Reconveyance and Common Sense from the County Executive

There was a semi-victory in preventing a natural resource treasure from being stolen and placed under the control of Whatcom Land Trust (an NGO) to be forever restricted from public input and used as a productive and resourceful area that the birds, bees, flowers, trees and humans all enjoy and benefit from.  NGO’s are beholden to the United Nations “Agenda for the 21st Century,” aka Agenda 21.

Click on the image below to go to the editorial at “The Whatcom Excavator.”  If you are not already a regular reader of “WE” (the Whatcom Excavator), you should be.  The articles are insightful and packed with substantiated information that individual property owners and residents of this county need to know.

YiT ~ Shelly


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Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Local Blog, “Whatcom Excavator,” exposes blatant lies and collusion between City of Bellingham, Whatcom County Executive, Whatcom County Council, Conservation NW, Board of Natural Resources, Department of Natural Resources and Others

Please, please, please…take the time to read, absorb and share this posting from the Whatcom Excavator.  On Sept. 11th, 2012, the Whatcom County Council may affirm the Reconveyance of 8,800 acres of forested, agricultural land, currently under the control of our elected officials for the benefit of public school construction, low impact recreational activities (including hunting, fishing, off road vehicles and those “nasty” non-sustainable sports), which will forever remove this land as an asset and convert it to a public expense.  The real goal is to hand over this land to the Whatcom Land Trust with a “Conservation Easement.”  Whatcom Land Trust will have all of the control and “We the People,” will have all the costs to pay to maintain thousands of acres.  Better yet, they plan to make an exemption to place “wind turbines” across the ridge line around Lake Whatcom.  Wonder who’s pockets get lined with this chummy deal?

Read the truth for yourself and contact your local Whatcom County Representatives, Whatcom County Executive, BNR and DNR, to share your opinion.

YiT ~ Shelly


The Dirty Low Down - Reconveyance Records Unmask Deals and Secrecy

08/27/2012

WE just received a disk of public records that’s a scorcher.  Having looked through quite a few of these files (there are hundreds - it's good that this came with a list of “finds”) it looks like the county has done its best to evade the reality that significant collateral damage will befall the local economy if the “Lake Whatcom Reconveyance” moves forward.  What’s worse, the files reveal the Park Department’s constant and direct involvement in politics.  A lot of effort seems to have gone into putting direct pressure on elected officials near and far.  Instead of being objective, government has exhibited nothing but cold disregard for casualties on this steady march toward a predetermined outcome.  The disk is loaded with emails that urge secrecy.  Reading like a pulp fiction novel, tens of emails revealed deal making, back slapping, and substantial hypocrisy about environmental protection.  It seems a few key players have led an orchestrated campaign to drum up public support based on grandiose promises and emotion.

Click here to read the full post.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

What a difference in a day!

What a difference a day makes!  Just yesterday the ink showed the Lake Whatcom land transfer as all but a done deal.  Today it would appear that the State of Washington’s Department of Natural Resources has no intention of pursuing the land transfer unless:

  • The Whatcom County Council asks for it.
  • Whatcom County can show how it will make-up for the lost tax revenues to the County from the loss of timber sales and to the local lumber mills.

Thank you to whomever came down on the side of reason for this stance.Sus Devp (small)

Yours in Truth,  Shelly


State board tables Lake Whatcom land transfer

JOHN STARK - THE BELLINGHAM HERALD

For the second time, the Washington Board of Natural Resources has tabled a land reorganization measure that would have cleared the way for transfer of about 8,000 acres of the Lake Whatcom watershed to Whatcom County for parks.

Advocates of the transfer to the county have argued that managing the land for recreation instead of timber harvest would help protect the quality of the lake's water, which is the drinking supply for Bellingham and outlying areas.

But the transfer is still being debated at the county level. Besides the potential loss of timber revenues to the county, school districts and other public agencies, opponents of the transfer have argued that the county isn't ready to take on the cost of managing the property and developing it for public use.  Click here to read the full story.


Monday, October 10, 2011

Lake Whatcom Land Exchange is Back!

Think that the Chuckanut Ridge land debacle is the worst thing that could happen to our community?  How about if the Whatcom County Executive and Council take over 9,000 acres of land in the Lake Whatcom watershed?  What’d be bad about that, you say?  Well currently the land is under the protection of the State of Washington’s, Department of Natural Resources and held to the highest standards of current public land uses.  Also, the County receives revenue from this land from managed commercial logging, and the County also benefits from the DNR’s logging roads that act as trails for light impact use by the public.  If Whatcom County takes over this property the tax payers will lose a lot of money from tax revenues, and take on the liabilities of any landslides, floods, fires, et al that could occur on this property.  The trails will either be removed or very likely reduced in number due to the costs of maintaining them.

The current Whatcom County Executive, Pete Kremen and Whatcom County Council President, Sam Crawford are all in on this one, in fact it’s popularly referred to as “Pete Kremen Park”.  Why is it that politicians who spend decades in the political system are only willing to leave after they have some public park, museum, library or facility named after themselves?Sus Devp (small)

Yours in Truth, Shelly


Lake Whatcom land exchange back on agenda at Board of Natural Resources

October 7th, 2011 9 AM PST by john - The Bellingham Herald

From Stark

A much-discussed plan to transfer state land around Lake Whatcom to Whatcom County for management as park land is back on the agenda of the state’s Board of Natural Resources on Monday, Oct. 10 in Olympia.

Mitch Friedman, executive director of Conservation Northwest, says a busload of environmentalists will be heading to the capital for the 9 a.m. meeting.

The critical vote on this transfer will be cast by the Whatcom County Council, but before that can happen, the state board must approve a complex intra-state transfer of the land among various categories of state management, to lay the legal groundwork for the transfer of nearly 9,000 acres to the county.

Click here to read the full story.


Wednesday, September 28, 2011

What Can You Do?

Everyday someone asks me; “Okay so I know things are messed up, now what can I do to help?”  On October 15th, 2011, the local chapter of CAPR will be holding a forum with experts in the field of environmentalism, economics, politics, and law to talk about how we can “restore” the American Dream” of private property rights and civil liberty.

Mark this one on your calendar and share it with your contact list.  Let those who scheme to destroy the American Dream for the Collective good, hear us roar!

Yours In Truth  Winking smile  Shelly

CAPR flier 10-11

Saturday, March 26, 2011

“Agenda 21” for “Dummies”

Again I say, such a screed needs very little explanation.  This posting originates from those who understand that common sense tells them; “something wicked this way comes”.  Read his words, take 10 minutes from your day to watch this YouTube video warning us about the designs that “Agenda 21” and the “ICLEI” have on you, your children, your property and what’s left of freedom and liberty in the United States of America.

Thank you Karl, for helping to spread the truth.

Yours In Truth  Winking smile  Shelly

Kakistocracy: Government by the least qualified or least principled citizens.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Agenda 21 For Dummies

I first became aware of ICLEI last month. Sure, I had heard the name "Agenda 21", but I had no idea what it was about. This has been going on for decades, under the guise of warm fuzzy names like "sustainable development", right under our noses, under the radar, out of the reach of the US Constitution, and with the help and approval of politicians from both sides of the aisle. Many so-called "non profit" community organizers are paying themselves handsome salaries with federal grant money to sue us, regulate us, and to confiscate our property rights. They are using our tax dollars against us.
The 'progressives' at ICLEI have latched on to the anthropogenic global warming (AGW) hypothesis even though there is no objective proof that it exists, and no experiment that you could run to prove it. You just have to believe, because the consequences if you do not are so dire. Where have I heard that argument before? Oh, that's right -- religion! The big difference is, the first amendment prevents government from interfering with or establishing any religion. The Church of AGW on the other hand, is somehow exempt from the same constitutional constraints.
Under the influence of ICLEI and Agenda 21, public schools are now teaching that objective truth is unknowable, so it isn't worth seeking. There's only one reason for saying that: So that upcoming generations will believe claptrap like AGW. It's a handy tool to keep people from questioning anything. Knowledge is power, and the truth will set you free.

Read the full story by clicking here.

Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Representative Steve King Advocates for Defunding the Appropriation of Funding to Obamacare in the CR

Whether you agree or disagree with the tactics they are proposing to accomplish the defunding the appropriation of Obamacare that was put into the Obamacare bill…now is the time to speak up to Speaker Boehner and let Congress know how you stand on this issue.  We all know it is the bridge to a nationalized, single payer plan as Representative Conyers publicly admits to in the 2nd video.

Yours In Truth  Winking smile  Shelly

Sunday, February 27, 2011

Institutional Revolution. Think about that.

This article from the blog site “Primordial Slack”, is so well written that any attempt by me to make it my own would diminish it.  So, please read, relish and share this piece for the pure common sense it imparts to the reader(s).

Yours In Truth  Winking smile  Shelly

Posted on February 23, 2011 by Joan of Argghh!

Some days I can’t decide if I’m actually impressed by the once fresh-faced irony of the Mexican ruling party’s name, or horrified that the good-citizen-teachers of Wisconsin will seize upon it for their own identity.

We Don't Need No Steenkin' Badges!

You’d have to admit at this point that “Hope and Change” is a hollow cover for blatant Marxism and it clanks against the heart of liberty in the same sophomoric key as all things institutional. But that is the way of all governments at some point: assimilate the popular sentiment and institutionalize it for your own purposes. Or did you not see what happened in Egypt? Good and impressionable people took to the streets and the governing powers infiltrated, adulterated and subjugated the national mood. They (an amalgam of power-brokers) now own what happened and the people lost.

I think that’s why it’s best to leave Wisconsin to the moonbats. A counter-march and all the attendant fringes of such will, a)never be faithfully portrayed by the State-run media, or b)will be artfully cherry-picked by the MSM out at the fringes for a net loss, or c)be assimilated into One Thing and that won’t be the thing anyone really wants, but will be what they get.

It’s best to let such people self-define, in the end. The singular and non-distilled messaging of the Left is doing our work for us. The minute the Tea Party decides to do something similar, we will be handing power to the ruling Institution and, like it or not, that is still a very fat and happy body of government; a government that is inventing social-bots and twitter-bots and all sorts of State-run media-bots and setting them free to roam the Intartubes.

Even now, people are tiring of the tedious business of sorting through the media morass to find simple meaning. The delicate types want everyone to quit being mean, the deceiving types want to shift blame, and the rest just want to control the conversation when they’re not trying to regulate it for cash and valuable prizes. It all works in their favor. Sure, the cure for restrictive speech is more speech but the ear can only hear so much.

A solid ideology, pure, simple and easily defined by its outcomes is our only unifying force. We lose it at our peril. We must guard it jealously and wisely, not trot it out into the streets when the risk of confusion is high, as in Wisconsin right now. Let that weak pony run itself out.

The Tea Party simply must remain the non-institutionalized factor of real hope. Even now, nice, well-meaning people are planning on using what so many have already accomplished for their own political ends. They will shove candidates and issues and agendas onto the Tea Party like a feather in Yankee Doodle’s cap and call it macaroni if we let them. But for now those types are completely frustrated by the lack of organization; that’s how you know it’s working.

In the meantime, if you want to save your country, you’ll have to do it all by yourself: one acquaintance, one casual encounter, one community meeting, one moment of accountability,  one blog post, one vote at a time.  It might be out of your comfort zone socially, but it wields more lasting effect than all the hollow promises and tender mercies of an Institutionalized Revolution.

Click here to go to their website for more well written scribes.

Just speak up. And if someone is offended? Wear it like a badge. . . of honor.

Thursday, February 24, 2011