Environmentlists losing Clout

Death of environmentalists is near not the actual taking care of nature but the form of those greedy power hungry liars in Non Governmental Organizations such as Columbia Land Trust, Ducks Unlimited, CREST, Lower Columbia Fish Enhancement Group, and Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board these are just a few that are plaguing our country here in the Pacific Northwest. These groups have been terrorizing the elderly, the widowed, and every land owner in their wake. These groups have destroyed homes and farmlands and have never made nor offered restitution. These groups have left the eco-system in shambles.

Its harbinger is not a conservative onslaught, nor a new Contract with America. Its demise is being signaled by activities conducted in a small rural community known as Grays River, Washington. Grays River/Rosburg is an unincorporated rural village in Wahkiakum County, Washington, United States. Grays River stands on the north bank of the lower Grays River, which flows into the Columbia River estuary. The National Register of Historic Places-listed Grays River Covered Bridge crosses the Grays River in the community. It is the only such bridge still in use in Washington.

Grays River and Rosburg Washington sit side by side they are areas rich in history and culture. These areas were natural wonderlands rich in scenic beauty, organic farming, and wonderful people. These organizations have been buying up land, making willing sellers by flooding people repeatedly since 2004 without funds for lawyer fees ancestral homes are bought up for pennies on the dollar. Rivers and waterways have been rerouted causing scouring of property, private property that has been farmed for over one-hundred years is now marsh, fish are being swooshed onto hay fields where they become fowl and coyote bait, several historic sites have been bulldozed and ruined, and people’s homes have been destroyed. These NGO’s actually state they are restoring, restoring what we ask? In actuality they are destroying a way of life and the eco-system.

Grays River and Rosburg Washington, home to many people who believe do as you will but harm none. This philosophy has served well over the years until the outside city slicker environmentalists learned that big money could be had a all that needed to be said is salmon recovery. One did not have to actually recover salmon they just had to put the words into a grant and behold millions fill their pockets.

In the United States today, the organized environmental movement is represented by a wide range of organizations sometimes called non-governmental organizations or NGOs. These organizations exist on local, national, and international scales. Environmental NGOs vary widely in political views and in the amount they seek to influence the environmental policy of the United States and other governments. The environmental movement today consists of both large national groups and also many smaller local groups with pretending to have local concerns. Some resemble the old U.S. conservation movement - whose modern expression is the Nature Conservancy, Audubon Society and National Geographic Society - American organizations with a worldwide influence.

Links for Other Sources of Salmon Recovery Information

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Fishery agency mismanagement, coupled with natural trends working against salmon, has brought northwest salmon runs to historic lows. Charged by law to protect salmon, yet promote salmon harvest, fishery agencies do not even count how many Columbia Basin salmon are caught and killed for consumption, or measure the cost-effectiveness of salmon hatcheries. Fish and Wild life place weirs (traps) in rivers and kill all salmon before the salmon can lay eggs and hatch more salmon. The only reason I can think of is salmon recovery is big bucks not salmon recovery.

The most basic biological facts about salmon are politicized, as fishery officials misrepresent the effects of dams on salmon to extract federal funding from the Bonneville Power Administration. The result? A $3 billion program focused on fine-tuning fish passage at mainstem Columbia and Snake River dams that fails to recover salmon, because there is no evidence that those dams are a limiting factor in salmon recovery

Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." John Davis

History of Environmentalism

May 31, 2008 ... Environmental History Timeline. Radford University. 20 Apr. 2003. runet.edu/~wkovarik/hist1/timeline.new.html> ...
www.mtmultipleuse.org/ENDANGERED/esahistory.htm

Environmentalism initially manifested itself with the emergence of claiming people were damaging the environment.

Such exuberance was quickly snuffed out by the harsh realities of the Great Depression, Nazism, the bleak existence most families found themselves in, and the eventual national commitment to a two front war. There was scant time available for dalliances with anything that wasn’t practical and immediate. Concepts and ideas outside of the very real and necessary were left to those in the colleges of America and Europe or to professional philosophers and theorists.

The esoteric took a backseat to the real.

Then, after a relatively brief period of peace, America elected a young Senator from the state of Massachusetts, and environmentalism was once again uncorked. Fermented by years of being bottled up by the necessities imposed by the outside world, environmentalism was unleashed full tilt into a generation excited by the charisma of a core of unfounded, cheep talking politicos who enthralled them. Eager to escape their depression educated parents and their parents’ puritanical concepts in child rearing; this generation accelerated past the standard bearers and never looked back. Chicago 1968.

Based on the reasonable concepts of equal civil rights (although it took Republicans to actually get civil rights legislation passed in the sixties; over objections of many Democrats), women’s rights, taking care of the poor and protecting the weak, liberal thought was embraceable by many who felt blessed in those heady times. The original concepts of egalitarianism were soon consumed by an unstoppable tornado that evolved from the anti-war movement and its associated rebellion against all restraints; parental, moral, and governmental.

The acceleration of environmentalism thought through its lighting fast evolutionary period makes expansion of our universe look like a pedal car at a NASCAR race, and since it has raced along for fifty years at maximum rpm and it will soon burn out like a piston in a lean running engine.

Environmentalism is now best defined by its extremists. Much like Spinal Tap, environmentalists are not content to have the volume up to 10; they have a need to continually go to 11, and beyond. No idea is off the table. No idea is too extreme. Just keep turning the volume knob to the right, 12, 13, maybe. Bose eat your heart out.

Which brings us back to Grays River and Rosburg Washington.

Grays River and Rosburg Washington are proud of their heritage and dismayed, frightened, and appalled with the frivolous, eccentric behavior, unlawful, and down right evil acts of these NGOs. The residents are equally dismayed that state, federal, and county officials have allowed by taking the hands off approach these NGOs to destroy private properties. Residents find it incredible that they can not get the media to print, show, or distribute an accurate picture of the damages being done to the eco-system and people. It’s hard to understand when one calls EPA and tells them eleven plus people in white protective suits are spraying illegal chemicals to be told Columbia Land Trust is such a stellar organization and says they aren’t when you have the pictures to prove they are.

The real crisis continues, the media has refused to print the truth. Cds have been sent out to 20/20, two on your side; get Jesse just to name a few with no response. All things reach an acme, for thought it was Election 2008. The reality of implementing environmentalist ideas in government in 2009 and beyond comes with the revelation that gaining environmentalist consensus is much more difficult than herding cats and much less likely than taming badgers. Because of the now disparate nature of many core beliefs, environmentalists simply are losing clout and cannot effectively govern and we are starting to get a few prints in the media and people across America are waking up.

Sometimes the brightest star does burn itself out first. With nowhere to go, except past 14, 15, and beyond on the volume knob, environmentalism is quickly replacing its once viable compassionate reason with more volume and diametrically opposing ideas; ideological difficulties which are not easy to overcome with lurking massive deficits and growing taxpayer unrest its hard to stomach billions given to salmon recovery (which is really killing salmon). There is significantly less salmon then before they began and people waking up to the tune of big money grants do not save salmon or the environment, and thus far is destroying people.

The environmentalist movement is quite literally running out of ideological steam after is meteoric run, but now a long period of acrimony and infighting awaits.

I only hope Americans are ready to let the truth prevail!

How Land Trusts Work

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"In an age of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." -George Orwell

Taking American Land and Rights – How It Works

By Nancy Levant

Why the “New World” is so difficult to understand is not as complex as one might guess. While we naturally focus upon local issues and concerns such as community development, forest access, sportsmen’s rights, etc., one does need to understand the “whys” of local political decisions, and the decisions of local commissions and councils. There is rhyme and reason to our loss of rights, land, privacy, and public opinion.

Consider the following:

Every American citizen, no matter where you live, MUST buy your county’s Plat Book. Plat Books are maps that identify the owners of each and every parcel of land in your counties. You cannot know what is going on behind the scenes unless you buy your county Plat Book. Begin there.

You will then discover that most of the land in your counties is now owned by 1) state or federal government, 2) land development companies, 3) land “trusts” or “land funds,” 4) environmental organizations, and 5) large corporations.

If you are lucky enough to have several Plat Books covering a 2, 3, 5, or 10-year period (Plat Books are published annually), you will see a connection between land trusts, land development companies, land funds, and corporations. You will discover that they buy and sell to each other, and that they change the names of their organizations, and also create spin-off organizations, on a very regular basis.

Then, if you go to the websites of these land organizations, you will discover that they are “partnered” with 1) each other, and 2) with larger global corporations, and 3) with local universities and technical colleges, and 3) with “environmental” organizations.

In other words, you will find that the buying and selling of land in your counties is a highly organized business bureaucracy that circulates and perpetuates “profit and control” between revolving door “partnerships.”

But what are “partnerships?” In a word, “business” has changed in the United States. On television commercials, I’m sure you’ve heard the term “partners.” It sounds nice – like cooperative business ventures for the good of the public. However, nothing can be farther from the truth.

Partnerships, stakeholding, and NGOs (non-governmental organizations) are America’s (and the world’s) new governmental bureaucracy system. This system is the brainstorm of the United Nations and was defined in a document called Agenda 21, which means Agenda for the 21st Century.

Agenda 21, in a nutshell, mandated that all countries that were U.N. members implement all Agenda 21 requirements into their nations and governmental structures. The U.S. is a member of the United Nations, and therefore we were required to implement Agenda 21.

In the U.S., Agenda 21 is called by different names. We call it “sustainable development,” “sustainable communities,” “Local 21,” “Smart Growth,” and a whole bevy of other names. However, all these governmentally imposed programs and changes that we now see in our communities (and worldwide) are upon the insistence of the U.N. as outlined in the Agenda 21 document.

First and foremost, Agenda 21 mandated that there is to be NO ownership of private property – worldwide. The U.N. believes that all land, watershed systems, and natural resources must be owned and administered by “government.” To American people, this is what we consider to be Communism. We believe that ownership of property is directly tied to freedom.

As the United States set up and is the primary financial supporter of the United Nations, the U.N. had to come up with a plan to make palatable their right to confiscate our privately owned land. But how did they accomplish that plan?

Masterfully, the United Nations, with their partners (the World Bank, the World Trade Organizations, and the International Monetary Fund, and global corporations and groups), began funding “environmental” science organizations and universities with grant dollars. By doing so, they also formed “partnerships” with eco-organizations and scientists, and a master plan evolved.

Under the direction of Agenda 21, a massive funding web of partnerships, stakeholders, and NGOs, a “grant-hired” eco-doomsday scenario was created and served to manipulate American people into 1) giving up their privately owned properties for the good of “sustainable” nature, and 2) to lay the groundwork for the “partnership-stakeholding-NGO bureaucracy. It worked like a charm.

Once you buy your county Plat Books, you will clearly see that there is next to no property left to buy in the United States. It has already been purchased by state and federal government, land development companies, large corporations, land trusts like The Nature Conservancy, and land fund organizations – all of which are “partnered” together in the greatest land and natural resource confiscation scheme in the history of the world.

In a nutshell, we are witnessing bureaucratic nation conquering. Rather than using warfare to collect new countries and landmasses, the partnership bureaucracy is collecting world territory via land grabbing initiatives under the direction of the United Nations and its global partners.

These initiatives are operating in every town, burg, rural, and wilderness area in the United States. Therefore, all state and local politicians, beholding to federal laws and money, were forced to become a part of the Agenda 21 mandate for ending all ownership of private property. These initiatives are operating in all U.N.-member nations.

Equally, the professional sciences of “ecology” and “conservation” were bought by the Agenda 21 system, and are now solely funded by Agenda 21 “partners” in land confiscation.

On the federal level, you will find the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Interior, the Department of Natural Resources, all three Executive levels, and other governmental departments under the control of the United Nations. All treaties, Memorandums of Understanding, and alliances with the U.N. trump the Constitutional Laws of the United States. This is important, folks – international law “trumps” national law. “Treaties” trump national law. In other words, our politicians, agreeing to be members of the United Nations, and agreeing to implement Agenda 21, suspended our Constitutional rights AND our rights to own private property. This, my friends, is fact of law, and this law, by definition, is called Communitarian Law.

At the state level of government, our state governors, who hope to retain the financial support of the federal government, have also agreed to implement Agenda 21 into each and every one of our 50 states. This includes our state universities.

And now we come to our local levels of government, our local colleges and universities, and our local movers and shakers, which we well know are the affluent people who are our county commissioners, councilmen, and businessmen. All the affluent locals, in efforts to gain dollars from their state governments, and to be privy to the endless money via international, federal, and state grants for “land” ventures, have signed onto the new “partnership-stakeholding-NGO” system of business, because that new bureaucracy is how wealth, power, and money works in the New World. In truth and fact, if you aren’t a part of this new governmental bureaucracy, which includes grant money and non-profit status, you are 1) not going to succeed financially, and 2) you are not going to gain any political or local power.

We are operating under a new form of government. It is the United Nations-defined form of government. Our Constitutional government has been overtaken by international law, and we, the people, are systematically losing not only our private property, but our access rights to our wilderness areas, as well. We are also losing all other freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution.

It’s all dressed up in “love of nature and/or sustainability” language, but the facts remain the same. Private property is to end, and this is why, via your county Plat Books, you will see that there is literally next to no land left for us to buy in our country. This is why you are seeing “access restrictions” being imposed daily and all across our nation. This is why we are being herded into “planned communities” where we do not own the land. Agenda 21 originally defined these planned communities as “human settlements.” How many land development companies are now in your areas? How many deed-restricted communities have been erected?

This is why deer and cattle populations are being purposefully killed off by “reintroduced” wolf and cougar populations, but to name a few of the land confiscation “partnering” webs of deceit. The intent is to get us off our private and public lands.

Our “New World” is a new one-world government. It is composed of European central banks, the Bilderberg Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Trilateral Commission, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund, the World Court, the United Nations, and many other global organizations, groups, people, and corporations. This system was incrementally set into play over the last century, and has now overtaken the United States – thanks to our elected – who agreed to exchange our sovereignty, our way of life, our religion and beliefs, and our Constitutional government and rights for a global hybrid-corporate/Socialism/Communism. We now live under new rules, which have changed everything from our children’s educations to our rights to honest science, our health and privacy, our living and home options, and even our personal and public rights and opinions.

Our New Government is a combination corporate-financial system, with human beings as highly controlled servants to profit. Our New Government has created a techno-society, where we are highly “managed” creatures – much like chipped and reintroduced wolves and “invasive” species. We are also being chipped on a daily basis, and are governmentally and corporately encouraged to do so. We are in tremendous trouble and we are vulnerable to this new techno-society with its non-stop chemtrail spraying, manufactured super-viruses, weather control, spying technologies, and to our elected who are also loyal to the mass human de-population plans and mandates of Agenda 21. Watch and listen for state-mandated initiatives to curb reproduction and birthrights – particularly for poor women.

On a final note, and for all who live in the forested lands of the United States, and particularly the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, keep two concepts in mind – forest fires and global mining interests. I suggest they are systematically linked. Watch for “forest fire research” in your colleges and universities.

Thoughtfully consider why anyone in their right mind, much less entire governmental departments, would agree to implement programs like large carnivore reintroduction – thereby decimating deer and other ungulates, and cattle populations, nationwide. Why? To force farmers and ranchers out of business and to sell their land, and to effectively end hunting and other outdoor wilderness sports. It’s called getting the people off the land, folks – plain and simple. If you buy the eco-sustainability explanations, you still haven’t read Agenda 21.

In bitter truth, our Constitutional governance has ended. The only question remaining is what you intend to do about it. If you are so inclined to do nothing, then welcome to your New World. And while you’re watching global TV, you might make note of the fact that global pharmaceutical corporations are marketing new substances to you 24/7. Keep telling yourselves – global de-population requirements as per Agenda 21.

Rally To Enforce the Laws and Legal Operation of this Nation!
On April 17, 2006 at 1:00 pm EST, victims of legal abuse, legal reformers, Constitutionalists, and freedom-minded people and organizations, who demand legal Constitutional governance, will:
· Join together at the Rayburn Congressional Office Building, the location of the House Judiciary Committee in Washington, DC, to demand that the Committee hold hearings on legal abuse in America.
· Lawyers and activist organizations are needed to attend and take action/organization plans home to their individual states.
· For information on how to get involved NOW, and to advertise this rally in all 50 states, please contact The Patriot Caucus at www.patriotcaucus.com and the Citizens Justice Institute at www.citizensjustice.com.


It’s time to enforce the laws and legal operation of this, OUR nation! Pass this information onto at least 5 people and/or organizations, and ask them to do the same.

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What is a Land Trust?

Anatomy of a Land Trust The idea of a private land trust owning specific scenic or wildlife areas sounds appealing on the surface, but almost all land trusts today are highly political organizations run by ideological, anti-development, anti-farming, anti-living in rural America environmentalist they are activists seeking to impose social controls in order to undermine the private economy and the civil rights of property owners. The land trusts are financially backed by a subclass of wealthy owners pursuing preservation in order to gain financial wealth. The trusts use their politically privileged tax–exempt status and government subsidies your tax dollars to promote and lobby for government ownership or control of vast areas of land, and collaborate with government agencies behind the backs of property owners these property owners are not willing sellers they are targeted for acquisition and land use prohibitions. The trusts act as real estate purchasing agents for government agencies, exploiting the mechanisms of the private free–market by buying up land and flipping it into government ownership and removing it from tax role and any access.

When direct political and government action become too controversial the trusts use their vast wealth to gradually eliminate private property owners from a targeted area over time in a strategy of harassment, flooding, and destruction of neighboring properties. While the local sheriff and Prosecuting Attorney sit idle refusing to enforce laws or ordinances.

Land use controls over private property are relentlessly increased to drive out the remaining owners. Exempt from property taxes themselves, the trusts manipulate the tax code for their own political ends by inducing tax-strapped property owners to sell or donate land in exchange for discriminatory tax breaks available only to those giving up land rights to the ‘non–profit’ trusts. ‘Conservation easements’ ostensive intended to hold development rights typically also grants the trusts enormous privileges to interfere in the private management of the land. Land Trusts buy up huge quantities of land in already strapped small counties thereby sending counties into bankruptcy.

Columbia Land Trust and Ducks Unlimited are some of the wealthiest and most politically powerful land trusts in Washington State and Oregon they have ruined the eco-system, homes, private property, stranded salmon, admitted it and refuse to be accountable. Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board funds and directs several satellite trusts claiming to represent local people. CLT and DU boast they have a war chest of funds with more money then GOD, to keep law suits in court for years, to buy up land its backers do not want other people to use, and maintain close connections with government agencies where it influences government land acquisition priorities and regulatory controls. CLT, in collaboration with DU, Fish and Wildlife, and Dean Takko Washington Representative have collaborated and set a precedent at the Julia Butler Game Reserve by sheer wearing down of the diking/flood districts the Cathlament area. The County Planning Office and Wahkiakum County Officials have taken the hands off approach.

The destructive acts these NGOs are commencing upon our county and our nation is abominable. We have the opportunity to affect change will you help save private property or will you sit by and say what a terrible thing this is and do nothing. I hope you will try.

Farmers under seige

We have been getting some truth in the media as of late. Copied from Wahkiakum Eagle

Although some of the dates are wrong the article covers the situation truthfully.

October 29, 2008

Restoration work puts land owners under siege
by Stevan Morgain

War comes in different forms, some violent, some psychological and quiet. The effect along the Grays River? Property owners are feeling under siege.

“We are trying to save our properties,” said Delvin Fredrickson, chairman of the Grays River Habitat Enhancement District (a diking district) “from non governmental organizations (NGOs) like The Columbia Land Trust, Ducks Unlimited, the Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board, and the Columbia River Estuary River Study Taskforce.” Fredrickson points out that the conservation groups invading the Grays River are using fish mitigation dollars from the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) to change the flow patterns of Grays River and, in the process, destroying property values and the tax base. Fredrickson said his community is fighting for their property rights. He is also frustrated with his US Representative Brian Baird and county Commissioner Dan Cothren for not standing up to the NGO groups.

The problems began in 2006 (should be 2004) when the environmental groups Columbia Land Trust and Ducks Unlimited built their first project on Kandoll Road in Western Wahkiakum.

The Kandoll Road story isn’t new. The project is a quarter of a mile long dike and two 13-foot culverts installed by The Columbia Land Trust and Ducks Unlimited across a county easement in a cow pasture on the old Kandoll Dairy Farm. In the winter floods of 2006, water was trapped behind the dike and 18 properties up and down that section of the Grays suffered significant damage to homes, property and livestock.
“First we want the Kandoll Road dike and culverts removed so the water can flow the way it has for a hundred years,” said Fredrickson.

The Columbia Land Trust has a different take on the work they do. In an interview earlier this year, Columbia Land Trust Stewardship Manager Ian Sinks said, “We do the work of a land trust. We work with landowners according to the goals of the landowner and Columbia Land Trust. ”Sinks said several owners in Grays River offered their land for sale. The land trust also controls about 20,000 acres of land in Wahkiakum County.
“Our goal is not to take land out of production but look at the land and where the land wants to be something else, and allow that to happen,” said Sinks. “This argument has gone nowhere for five years and created a lot of distrust and controversy over groups like The Columbia Land Trust and Ducks Unlimited,” said Wahkiakum County Commissioner Blair Brady, “but in fact the Bechtel engineering map produced for the Kandoll project does show a 'bathtub' effect where water backs up behind the dike.”

The Kandoll Road fiasco was the first shot across the bow of a citizen’s rights battle that continues inflame Grays River residents. In May of this year, the Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board (LCFRB) asked the Grays River community for a town meeting to discuss their proposed plan for the Grays River Valley. Presented to the Grays River community as The Habitat Restoration and Project Design Study, the plan looks at 62 sections of the Grays, about 18 miles long, and suggests tidal slough restoration, riparian restoration, dike breaching, channel enhancement, tributary enhancement, side-channel and floodplain restoration, bank sloping and adding log jams and woody plant debris to selected areas of the river. “I was there, and their plan isn’t a commitment for these jobs to be done,” said Brady. “It is basically a guide for anyone who wants to use private funds or public grants to do work in the river.” Under the plan’s Design Needs section, it notes landowner outreach. The question asks potential grant applicants to determine if landowners will let them onto their land to do topographic surveys, hydrologic/hydraulic analysis, sediment evaluation and conduct detailed engineering designs of their land.

With the property damage from the Kandoll Road project still on their minds, Grays River residents attended the meeting organized by the LCFRB. “There were about 50 or 60 people at the meeting in Grays River and they were all very upset because the LCFRB plan involved breaching dikes and flooding private properties of people who hadn’t even been consulted,” said Brady. Fredrickson said the plan presented at the meeting would effectively drive most of the Grays River’s lowlanders from their homes along the river. “Don’t get me wrong,” he said, “we want to stop the flooding here but their proposal will only make things worse."The Grays River Habitat Enhancement District’s research paints a clear picture of why the Grays River floods. It starts with the US Army Corps of Engineers dredging of the ship channel at the mouth of the Grays River. “Their dredging has shifted the strong currents that once flushed the mouth of the Grays, out to the center of the Columbia and into the shipping channel,” said Fredrickson. That one problem causes the mouth of the Grays to clog up and become shallow which then ripples back upriver for about 18 miles. Commissioner Brady agrees with Fredrickson’s assessment that the Grays’ riverbed has raised about 12 feet in the last 90 years. “I have to agree,” said Brady. “If you want to stop the flooding you have to stop the silt and debris from staying in the river and you can’t do that by installing more barriers that will trap even more debris.” Then there is logging. Logging dumps soil and woody debris into an already slower running Grays River. “The logging companies don’t replant, the soil gets loosened and washed into the Grays which adds to the build up,” said Fredrickson.

The situation gets magnified when the conservationists come along. “They want to tear down 100-year old dikes and add gravel, log jams and add new channels to an already overburdened river which will then cause even more water to backup into the Gray's feeder streams and cause yet more flooding,” said Fredrickson.
The LCFRB said the grants it offers are to groups who want to restore the river to its natural flow. Their plan for the Grays River designates the construction of side-channels, ponds and sloping banks. “Our group has surveys,” said Fredrickson, “and legal descriptions and testimonials going back to the 1850’s that show this river was a dynamic flow river, meaning it didn’t have the tributaries talked about in the LCFRB plan.” Fredrickson said that the mouth of Grays River wasn’t silted shut previously and during the freshet season ,the river often raged down through the valley.“That’s what kept the riverbed flushed out for fish and people,” he said. To prove his point Fredrickson produced a photograph of the old Grays River store (now Duffy’s Irish Pub) with about a 60’ scow docked in front of it. “This is how deep and wide the river used to be,” he said.

As wars go the Grays has escalated as the folks living in the area become more aware of the LCFRB’s plans for their community, and more frustrated. After feeling ignored by Wahkiakum County Commissioners over the Kandoll Road issue, in 2006 the Grays River Habitat Enhancement District contacted State Representative Mark Doumit who then wrote to the State Fish and Wildlife Department asking them to help resolve the Kandoll Road problem. In his reply to Representative Doumit, former Fish and Wildlife Director Jeff Koenings said, “No one likes to see people lose their homes.... However, our position is to allow the Grays River to run its natural course. Unfortunately, allowing the river to restore itself will affect landowners." “It doesn’t have a natural course anymore,” said Fredrickson, “but what that letter means is the government doesn’t give a damn about what’s happening to us, so now we have to fight our own government who uses our tax dollars to hire NGOs who in turn are being allowed to destroy our land.”

Fredrickson said the way it works is subtle. People pay their federal taxes and electric bills. Some funds are placed into the Bonneville Power, and the Fish and Wildlife’s fish mitigation funds. These agencies then turn around and hire an organization like the LCFRB to collect conservation grant proposals from tribal governments, state agencies, property owners, private conservation groups, and other Federal agencies.
When returned, the proposals collected from organizations like Ducks Unlimited or the Columbia Land Trust get reviewed and ranked according to areas of importance. The Lower Columbia Fish Recovery Board then either approves or rejects the grant applications based on the ranking.

Next, in the case of critical areas, the law governing these areas kicks in, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife gets involved. This places the force of law on the side of the NGO. It also places the burden of proof on those who disagree with the conservationists' efforts to return the land to its natural state, like the folks in Grays River whose only recourse now is through the court system. “If this fight is about anything, it’s about people's rights to decide what happens to their lives and their properties,” said Fredrickson. “We’re not rich but we have constitutionally guaranteed property rights.” Fredrickson said if the state and county governments won’t help mitigate the problems the community is having with the conservation groups coming in and taking over, then they plan to escalate the fight by calling in reinforcements such as the national organization, Citizens Alliance for Property Rights.

Columbia Land Trust’s Glen Lamb has responded with we are not to blame which is his take all along.

Citizens Alliance for Property Rights

Meets - Wednesday November 11th @ 7pm @ the Grays River Grange meeting follows the monthly meeting of the Grays River Habitat Enhancement District our flood and diking district. Please come and share your thoughts and ideas together we can save our properties.

We have the opportunity to affect CHANGE for the good
So We must try

We will not be led like sheep to the slaughter we have brains and therefore will become informed and save private property from NGOs and Government

Saving Our Farms

Grays’ River, Washington — Rerouting rivers, sloughs and drainage ditches, turning county roads into dams and making wing dikes, digging trenches through private properties, and stealing timber off these private property’s is the technique used by several “environmental groups that have descended upon the west end of Wahkiakum County. The unethical behavior and destruction of private property by these groups is beginning to raise a few eyebrows and turn a few heads. We have the opportunity to save our land from these groups. We must try or our farms, homes, and land will be nothing but swamp.

Residents of Wahkiakum County need to voice their objections to the county’s lack of support for their constituents. The county’s position on the issue has been a hands off approach. We must show opposition to these agencies being set free in the county. Ordinance 10989 has many provisions to protect private property rights and has been ignored by the county and the agencies. Many residents have voiced concern that the local government needs to stand up to the agencies.

The rights of private property owners and the resident’s way of life need to be taken into consideration. The agencies do not know or care what’s right for our community and has proven these by the several “projects” done that are causing havoc and damage in our community.

Ordinance 10989 states WHEREAS, the Board of County commissioners of

Wahkiakum County, Washington does find and declare that it is necessary for the protection and preservation of

the public peace, health, safety, and general welfare in regard to control of the

floodplain within Wahkiakum County, that certain rules and regulations, laws, and conditions established under the police power of the County, and pursuant to the laws of the United States of America and of the State of Washington.

The ordinance prohibits the intentional flooding to private properties which is what these agencies are doing. Such an ordinance is supposed to serve a valid public purpose and to otherwise serve to promote the prosperity, public health, safety and welfare of the residents of the county.”

Raven Webb, a local farmer and member CAPR, states the county cannot let the agencies under the guise of “environmentalists” overrun our lives and the production of food, destroy our farms, homes, property, and lives. There needs to be concern for the safety of the residents Webb says.

Section 1.4

METHODS OF REDUCING FLOOD LOSSES.

In order to accomplish its purposes, this Ordinance includes methods and provisions for:

(1) Restricting or prohibit uses which are dangerous to health, safety, and property due to

water or erosion hazards, or which result in damaging increases in erosion or in flood heights or velocities;

(2) Requiring that uses vulnerable to floods, including facilities which serve such uses, be

protected against flood damage at the time of initial construction;

(3)Controlling the alteration of natural flood plains, stream channels, and natural protective barriers, which help accommodate or channel flood waters

(4) Controlling filling, grading, dredging, and other development which may increase flood damage; and

(5) Preventing or regulating the construction of flood barriers which will unnaturally

divert flood waters or may increase flood hazards in other areas.

It is unlawful for any person, firm or entity to cause flooding upon other people’s property within the boundaries of Wahkiakum County. Penalties are required to be placed upon any firm or entity convicted of a violation of the ordinance. Parties found in violation would be guilty of a misdemeanor and would be “fined $1,000 per day and/or imprisonment of up to 90 days.

Wahkiakum County Sheriff, DANIEL L. BARDSLEY, Prosecuting Attorney DANIEL BIGLOW, and the Wahkiakum County Commissioners refuse to uphold the County Ordinance, State and Federal laws. Webb states, Property rights need to be defended.

The federal and state governments need to look at what the agencies are doing to people in rural areas; Webb also states that livestock are killed by the enhanced flooding caused by these agencies.

Redirecting, rivers, streams, sloughs, building obstructions in floodways has been allowed to continue since 2004 through present and had caused an uncountable economic hardship to the residents of Wahkiakum County. This is not been about Salmon recovery it about the large amounts of grant dollars given to these agencies our tax dollars. In a time when schools and parks are being closed, lack of funds for health care and elder care this year in Washington State the “environmentalists” were granted an extra 45.6 million to destroy rural America. Farm lands are becoming a thing of the past. Will we import all our food and how safe is that?

Wahkiakum County Commissioners have done nothing to protect their constituents. Wahkiakum County Commissioners have aided and abided and just allowed these agencies to ruin the lives of people trying to live in Wahkiakum County. Wahkiakum County Commissioners refuse to support Ordinance 10989 adopted May 9^th, 1989.

Let your voice be heard contact a commissioner today and every day. Let them know you do not support the taking of private property.

Join CAPR, be a bigger voice. Help yourselves before your property rights are just a memory. Join us to protect your property and ours. Be part of the solution. You have an opportunity to affect change, one must try!

saving private property

Action:

We are forming a new Chapter of

Citizens Alliance for Property Rights !

If you are not satisfied or have concerns with the decline in private property rights come join us for community involvement. Sharing concerns and ideas as to how to make this country better and save our property.

Attend and be added to our growing numbers.

Several Salmon have been swooshed into hay fields on Kandoll Road. Compliments of the alterations made by Columbia land Trust and Ducks Unlimited, without permits.

(This is not salmon recovery)

Several private property owners are suffering the adverse effects in loss of private property from these alterations. Several other private property owners are suffering from other Non Governmental Organizations that receive big bucks from governmental grants (your tax dollars).

Be there Wednesday, October 14^th @ 7pm Grays’ River Grange! This is A New Chapter of Citizens Alliance for Property Rights we will be holding elections.

Ron Ewart putting it in Perspective

The Awesome Power of the Individual,
Under Freedom!"
By Ron Ewart, President
National Association of Rural Landowners
© Copyright September 6, 2008 - All Rights Reserved

In spite of all of our individual and collective faults, there is a "great good" that exists in a very large number of us. That good is personified in a wide range of human traits and behavior, including private and public achievements, sacrifice, industry, creativity, empathy, generosity, spontaneous volunteerism and our can-do spirit. Unfortunately, due to the "distorted window" through which we view our information, that "great good" in us seems to be eclipsed by an over-zealous emphasis on that which appears to be "bad" within us. That over-zealous emphasis on what is apparently bad within us, is then used against us to tear us down and destroy our individual pride and spirit.

In all of life's creatures, nothing is as awesome as the goodness, beauty, strength, power, creativity, spontaneous generosity and spirit of the human individual, man, woman or child. That beauty, strength, power, creativity, generosity and spirit is manifested best, when they are allowed to flourish under the umbrella of freedom. Sure there is evil, but the goodness in man triumphs over that evil, time and time again.

To see the joy, exuberance and innocence of a little child, or watch the excitement in their eyes when they discover new things, is a wondrous sight to behold indeed. To experience the first love of a man and a woman as they grow into adulthood, that brings with that love, the gift of new life, new excitement, new achievements, new promise and new possibilities, is almost impossible to describe.

But those faces of joy and wonder turn to frowns, despondency and the loss of hope and their bodies shrivel up and become emaciated, when they are subjected to the Hell that is slavery, war, poverty or famine, or worse, a mindless collective.

Individuals, working either individually or collectively with other individuals, have been, are and always will be the movers and molders of a society, for good or evil. They are ultimately the decision makers and the risk takers, whether those decisions and risks be of the small variety covering our daily lives or the ultimately large decisions and risks that set the direction of cultures, countries, or hemispheres. Such individuals can either do so for sound, common sense motives, or for totally self-serving ones.

Most positive human achievement comes as a result of efforts of and by an individual, not a society or a culture. As a matter of fact, societies, cultures, religions and groups have generally stood in the way of most human achievements. Scientific discoveries, improvement in the human condition, or positive advances of government, come about from individuals working either by themselves or with a few others. A collective or a community didn't invent the light bulb. Thomas Edison, an individual, did. It is extremely unusual for large groups to accomplish anything. One only need look at our local, state and federal legislatures to see the truth in this statement.

If we must emulate someone, let us emulate the individual achievers. If we must follow, then let us follow in the footsteps of those that pioneer and forge ahead no matter what the odds or what peril lays in front of them. Intelligent, wise men and woman of vision forged the constitution of the United States. Courageous, individual pioneers settled the West against all odds. Now today, the individual spirit of thousands of entrepreneurs commence new businesses every day, risking their relationships with each other and their personal fortunes, no matter how large or small. They put up with every conceivable obstacle thrown in their path, not only from market forces but also by government regulation and edict.

Nevertheless, individualism is the engine that keeps the wheels of a free economy turning. Sixty to seventy percent of all jobs in the United States are created by individuals running their own businesses. What a country we live in. What a tribute to its resilient peoples. We are people of guts, courage, intellect, enterprise, fortitude and compassion. We are individuals in a sea of individuals and there is no strength on Earth that can match ours, in spite of our perceived troubles. That strength and power is a direct result of individuals and individual expression, living free.

But individual achievement in the United States today is getting a bad rap. As we move towards the collective, we either have to be part of some group to get accepted and our individual beliefs, goals and motives must be subjugated to the needs of that group.

The doomsayers will tell us that we are going to run out of power. We are going to run out of oil. We are going to pollute the environment and destroy the Earth with our cars and our industry. Our automobiles are going to quit running and our airplanes will quit flying and our ships will no longer ply the open seas. They con us into believing that it "takes a village" to raise a child. Poppy cock! These are the words of the quitters, the losers and the fear mongers. These are the words of those who wish to dominate the individual and break his spirit.

Ever since man first burned himself with fire and realized he could use it to his advantage, or transported some object by rolling a log and converted that idea to the wheel, he has been forever driven towards more knowledge, more understanding and a wider, larger, broader world in which he can explore. To do that he simply must go faster and he must develop the machines to achieve the ever-increasing speeds he will need to reach his goals. Man is driven by the one unique human trait that apparently does not exist in other creatures that share this planet with us. He is driven by that all-present, individual, joy of wonder and to go where no man has gone before. We are going to the stars one day and nothing anybody can do will get in our way. No amount of fear of the unknown, or nay saying about financing will stop us. The strength, power, creativity and spirit of the incomparable individual will carry us there.

Some day in the not to distant future, we are going to develop power sources that will literally boggle the mind. Our vision is that each home, each office, each business or building will have its own centralized power unit. And in that unit will have the source of energy to purify our drinking water, destroy our raw sewage and gray water, heat and cool our homes and offices and provide the electrical power for our lights and appliances. All these uses will be provided by one small or large unit within our homes, office buildings, or factories.

Think of it! Those in your twenties, watch how our planet will shrink in your lifetime. In ten to twenty years there will be airplanes or space ships that will leave the United States, rise into the stratosphere or higher, glide at two to five times the speed of sound and land in Russia in a couple of hours. At 3,000 MPH we can go halfway around the world in 4 hours, when a little over 150 years ago, we were limited to one or two horse power.

Personalized transportation will change dramatically. There will be air corridors for small, personal air units, whether they use the principals of helicopters and small aircraft, or some strange new power yet to be discovered. Maybe we will find a way to offset or neutralize gravity.

What an absolutely exciting time we live in.

There is no crisis here. There are just problems to solve and challenges to meet. Challenges are met by enterprising individuals working together with a common purpose, within the framework of sweet liberty.

We, as individuals, have a significant obligation to ourselves and to our children. We have the obligation to defend our freedom and to learn everything we can about everything we can know in our lifetime that we can document and prove beyond a reasonable doubt, and then pass as much of that information on to our offspring. We have an imperative to do no less. We have a responsibility to not abdicate this task to others. We shouldn't let our doctor, our teacher, our lawyer, our priest or clergy, much less our government, make decisions for us. They can be a source of information or counsel, but the ultimate decision maker is us, that is, if we value our freedom as individuals.

What we need to do, more than anything else, is to educate our people in all of the true knowledge we have discovered over the last 5,000 years and to foster unabashed individualism. Knowledge is the great equalizer among men. If all individuals possess the same knowledge, it is much more difficult, if not impossible, to “Lord” over the other, thus muting the necessity of war.

The problem in this country and every other country for that matter and every other people that exist on this earth, is not poverty. It is not the disparity between poverty and wealth. It is not pestilence or flood, famine, earthquake or any of these things. What it is, is the absence of freedom and property rights, pandemic ignorance and by the efforts of a few to break the backs and spirit of the individual. The power of the individual is a dictators worst nightmare.

What we need is a way to get more people motivated to seek that truth and their own "point of reference" and the solid basis of why their particular "point of reference" is relative to them. And we must resist with all of our might, government and special interest group's relentless perversion of the truth for their own ends.

We need to eradicate mysticism, propaganda, lies and distortion and replace them with the truth and universal, provable realities. And then we must teach our children to question even the provable realities and always leave room for a different perspective, a different view, or new information.

There are some real basics here and the hard cold truth of the matter is, we are individuals and no matter what the mechanism for getting here, we come into this world absolutely alone. No other person can live with us inside our bodies. Nobody else can be part of our soul. We are here unequivocally, irreversibly alone. As individuals, we must face all the trials and the joys and the sickness and the sorrow and death absolutely alone. Sure, others can hold our hands and stroke our brow, but nobody will die with us and although we won't say it out loud, most of us know it instinctively. In every sense of the word, we are totally unique individuals and only we occupy our "space" and our "time". But that individuality is the true source of our strength, power and creativity.

The stark reality is that if we destroy our God-given, natural freedom that allows our unique individuality to blossom and be all that we can be, we will descend into the Hell of the collective and it will take a bloody revolution to restore freedom and liberty so that the individual, once again, with all his strength, power, beauty, compassion, spirit and the joy of wonder, will lead man on the never-ending, exciting journey to explore our Universe. The Universe is waiting, if we don’t stumble and get in our own way.




Ron Ewart, President
NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF RURAL LANDOWNERS
P. O. Box 1031, Issaquah, WA 98027
425 222-4742 or 1 800 682-7848
(Fax No. 425 222-4743)
Website: www.narlo.org

Citizen's Alliance Be There!

Donations to Columbia land Trust and Ducks Unlimited destroy habitat.

Pictures speak volumes. Beware when you donate to any environmental organization you could be helping destroy what you thought you were saving.

Once Upon a time life in the Grays' River Valley was Bliss. Children learned about how food is grown. They helped their Nanny plant vegetables to share with many.

Life was good, organic vegetables grew, children ate as they wandered among the wonders of growing things.



Gibzyn showing off his Pumpkins before we give them away to others.



Along came Columbia Land Trust partnering with Ducks Unlimited infiltrating the valley. Spewing smoke into the air, burning buildings (old homesteads) with lead and asbestos filling the air with toxins.






CLT and DU bring in the Monsters to destroy more.

This is the company who helps destroy peoples lives, farms, agriculture, habitat, and homes.

Big River Rock destroying hundred year old orchards and building a wing dike without permits to divert water into homes and private property.







This guy after talking with him and telling him no permits exist seemed concerned. He seems to be only trying to make a living. He is being used to destroy.



Another approach to destroy lives is theses culverts placed under a county road.

Columbia Land Trust removed a 36inch tide gate and replaced it with two - 13 foot culverts redirecting the Seal Slough, which increase the velocity and speed of water eroding several private properties. These culverts also flood a county road.




Salmon (fall Chinook endangered fish) are being redirected into hay fields where they are unable to spawn, the fish become coyote and bird food. This salmon is in my hay field. How does this benefit salmon?

This was once a county road that led to the Grays' River, many people in the community enjoyed walking, biking and picking wild berries, territorial apples, and plums along this picturesque tranquil road.

That was before Columbia Land Trust without permits destroyed the road by turning it into a wing dike. The road was built up seven feet, then eleven feet, and now is being built up thirteen feet. This decreases the flood way from several thousand acres into a mere 80 acres causing water from the Grays' River to funnel into private property, destroying farms, agriculture, homes, and lives, the water then floods SR4 closing the state hwy for days.

As you can see the velocity of water is so great that it washes the wing dike out each year. This year Wahkiakum County is using FEMA funds to help Columbia Land Trust raise this road again. Blair Brady a Wahkiakum County Commissioner in this district has sought the removal of Columbia Land Trust's "project" sighting hydrologists reports and CLT's own model which proves the "project" is destroying private property, Dan Cothren one of the other county commissioners is a Ducks Unlimited guy and Lisa Marsyla thinks CLT and DU are just so nice..


Columbia Land Trust's alterations, redirecting of Seal Slough and channeling the Grays' River into my home causes three foot waves to hit house. The house sits seven feet above the driveway water is 13.6 feet deep on the driveway when the water crested there was four feet in the house.

My home is 72 years old, CLT has lied and said this home has always flooded, if that were true the home could not be still standing, in fact the home is in better shape then some. I have a letter from the grandson of the people who built the house saying water was never in the house. My home as have many in this valley suffered greatly since CLT came to destroy our lives.

Six inches of mud is left to shovel after intentional flooding of my home.

1946 Willy's was completely mechanically restored in the loafing shed what was a safe area before CLT. This is just one of the many restored classics destroyed by CLT.

Floating vehicles, the blue is/was a 79 Mercedes Benz. Three foot waves come from CLT's "project".


Agricultural fields lay wasted, gardens are no longer an option, cattle have been removed as they can no longer graze as they had for over a hundred years. Farm animals had to be given away for their safety.

The ecosystem has been compromised that not even snakes dwell as they once did. Coyotes are thriving on salmon diverted into what was once hay fields.

This beautiful valley is under siege without any checks and balances. The officials refuse to come out and look at what has been done. David Martin, Army Corps of Engineers stated on 8-09-09 at 10:20am that these people have a stellar record, how does he know this, he gets his information from the agencies doing the damage. Everyone refuses to see what has been done.

Columbia Land Trust Destroying America by Land acquisitions, Lies, and Greed!

Columbia Land Trust can NOT be trusted.