SB 5318 – Yukon
to Yellowstone agenda

SB 5318 commits the State to follow this movement which has
a very definite agenda.

“Yukon to Yellowstone conservation initiative” aka Y2Y

http://www.y2y.net/

Wilderness Society – a leader in Y2Y – their
vision

http://www.wilderness.org/WhereWeWork/Montana/y2y.cfm

Aldo Leopold – founder of Wilderness Society and
leader of this environmental movement.
May have been influenced by theosophy

http://www.religionandnature.com/ern/sample/Meine--Ouspensky.pdf

Although
best known for this work, Ouspensky was in

his own right a leading Theosophist who was at the center

of the philosophical and occult subcultures that flourished

in
pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg.
His pre-Gurdjeffian

publications,
especially Tertium Organum,
synthesized

and
popularized late nineteenth-century Russian mystical

and
literary traditions in early twentieth-century Russia.

Written in 1911 and published in New York in 1922 it

quickly
became a bestseller and gave him a worldwide

reputation.
Outside Russian artistic circles, it also influenced

many
American writers, including Jean Toomer,

Waldo Frank, Gorham Munson, and Kenneth
Burke, and

through
them modern literature. Most
significantly, his

notion of “the living world is an entire organism” shaped

Aldo
Leopold’s important ethical argument for conservation

(Ouspensky 1949: 299).

The Wilderness Society and Dave Forman (ties to Earth First)

http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/271

Article on Y2Y

http://www.thenewamerican.com/node/675

The Sonoran Institute – also
a major influence in the Y2Y movement

http://www.thealternativeview.com/sonoraninstitute.htm

THE SONORAN INSTITUTE

Attempting
To Put A Legitimate Face On Radical Environmentalism

The Y2Y project comprises a network of over 270 environmental groups,
organizations and individuals, and targets an area 1,990 miles long by 125 to
500 miles wide.  Their literature urges their followers to “contact
federal, state, and provincial politicians, encouraging them to support
large-scale habitat protection initiatives like Y2Y.  You might also ask
them to enact strong, comprehensive Endangered Species legislation.”
It requests that its adherents who live in the Y2Y area “Work at
the local level to ensure that principles of conservation biology are
recognized in current management, planning, and land use decisions.”  While
this all sounds noble, the entire program is anti-growth, and threatens not
only private property rights, but access to public lands as well; however, that
does not seem to bother Sonoran.

Although Sonoran is intricately involved in
promoting the radical TWP along with Earth First!,
they have gained the confidence of county planners by not being up-front with
their environmental agenda. Y2Y and Sonoran have
formed a partnership in which Sonoran will
provide planning “tools and guidance to communities interested in
identifying common values and developing locally-based, inclusive conservation
strategies to protect what’s important to them.”
It has certainly become obvious what is important to Sonoran.

Article from a Freedom 21 website http://www.freedom21santacruz.net/site/article.php?sid=215

The Canadian Connection

The concepts of ecosystems and ecosystems management ultimately will
become the Wildlands Project, which involves closing off half the land mass of the U.S. and parts of Canada
and Mexico
to human use. Ostensibly, it is to repair the damage done by man and to relink ecosystems, using ecomanagement.

The "managers" begin in small ways to accomplish the ultimate
goal. Small ways like reintroducing the wolf, grizzlies, wolverines and lynx
into the intermountain West.

The little sister of the Wildlands Project is
better known as Y2Y,
Yukon to Yellowstone.
It is an intermediate step in creating systems that would be hospitable to
critters but not to human beings.

Wildlands and Y2Y amount to central planning of all the land
and water that covers the entire United States
and parts of Canada and Mexico.
The U.S.
federal government is part of it.

According to the International Wilderness Association, or
WILD: On June 12, 2000, the USGS Federal Geographic Data Committee and Geoconnections (of Canada's
Geospatial Data Infrastructure) announced funding for the Yellowstone to Yukon framework data
project - a pilot effort to overcome barriers like national boundaries and
private property.

This is the first time these two federal agencies have cooperated on this
kind of funding proposal. A U.S.
federal agency and a Canadian agency working together to create a new territory
within the two countries is what it amounts to.

The Los Angeles Times, not exactly a journal of right-wing extremism,
describes the Wildlands Project thusly:
"Invisible to most Americans, the Wildlands
Project already is involved in conservation efforts from the Mexican border to
Appalachia to Maine to Canada. Among the 25 networks it
envisions are plans that would link the wilderness of Yellowstone to the Yukon, the British Columbia
rain forests to the Rockies."

The "brains" behind the Wildlands
Project is Dr. Soule. A graduate of San
Diego State University and Stanford, Soule studied
closely with Mr. Population Bomb himself, Paul Ehrlich.

Soule serves on the science advisory boards of several national and
international organizations, including La Sierra Foundation, Defenders of
Wildlife and The Nature Conservancy. Soule was also co-author of the original
draft of the biodiversity convention.

If Congress had adopted the Treaty on Biodiversity during the Clinton reign, it would have hog-tied the United States
into implementing most of U.N. Agenda
21. Don't forget,
treaties (like U.N. Agenda
21) supersede the
U.S. Constitution.

Excerpts from an article on Dave Foreman http://www.insideoutsidemag.com/archives/articles/2003/01/profile_of_a_eco_warrior.asp?archive_month=01&archive_year=2003

Just
three years earlier, Dave Foreman had been an influential conservation lobbyist
in Washington, D.C., enjoying regular audiences with
high-placed cabinet officials. But having grown tired of the "Beltway
runaround," the New Mexico native had abandoned Washington to help found
the direct-action
conservation group Earth First!, trading suit, tie, and political decorum for frontline
confrontation with bulldozers, logging trucks, and chainsaws.

In
1980, Foreman resigned in frustration, and together with a fistful of
like-minded others formed what would become the most creative and controversial
conservation "nonorganization" America
has ever known. "I and several other people who had worked for Friends of
the Earth or The Wilderness
Society, or who were active Sierra Club members, decided the time
had come for a conservation group that wouldn’t compromise, that would
invest itself in environmental ethics instead of political pragmatics, and that
would take strong, direct
action to try and stop the destruction of wilderness," Foreman
recalls.

Agriculture & Natural Resources Committee Members

Brian Blake - Chair (D)

Kevin Van De Wege - Vice Chair (D)

Joel Kretz
- Ranking Minority Member (R)

Judy Warnick
- Asst Ranking Minority Member (R)

William "Ike" Eickmeyer (D)

Bill Grant (D)

Dan Kristiansen (R)

Patricia Lantz (D)

Liz Loomis (D)

John McCoy (D)

Sharon Nelson (D)

Daniel Newhouse (R)

Ed Orcutt
(R)

Take a look at the Washington
groups who are part of Y2Y.  These
folks will be the partner non-profits dictating the policies of this law.

http://www.y2y.net/people/Y2Ynetwork.asp

1)         Northwest
Ecosystem Alliance
aka Conservation Northwest

2)         Paul
Brainerd and the Brainerd Foundation – funds many radical environmental
movements and groups that have ties to the “direct action” movement
(eg. Tides Foundation)

Information on the
Northwest Ecosystem Alliance

Northwest
Ecosystem Alliance NWEA protects and restores wildlands
in the Pacific Northwest and supports such efforts in British Columbia. NWEA bridges science and
advocacy, working with activists, policy makers and the general public to
conserve our natural heritage.

Link between NW Ecosystem Alliance and Mitch Friedman http://www.conservationnw.org/about/ourstory

Mitch Friedman, director of Conservation Northwest on its
founding as Northwest Ecosystem Alliance

Mitch Friedman – Earth First speech

http://www.actupny.org/documents/demomanual/friedman.html