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Conspiracy Shopping Cart: http://a-albionic.com/shopping.htmlFrom: CHUCK CUSHMAN
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Subject: REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN SLAM "CARA" LANDS LEGACY BILL
Date: Thursday, February 17, 2000 7:50 PM
American Land Rights Association - Land Rights Network
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Legislative Office: Mike Hardiman - 508 First St SE - Washington DC 20003
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Thursday, February 17, 2000
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Mike Hardiman
202-251-3473
REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMEN SLAM
"C.A.R.A." LANDS LEGACY BILL
In a highly unusual action, nine Republican members of the House Resources
Committee have co-signed a strongly worded "Dissenting View" that has been
filed with the Committee's report on the Conservation and Reinvestment Act
(CARA), HR 701. This open defiance against committee chairman and CARA
sponsor Don Young (R-AK) is another clear sign that CARA faces an uphill
fight within the GOP.
CARA, which is President Clinton's Lands Legacy in legislative form, has been
cosponsored by 90% of Democrats in the House of Representatives, and was
approved unanimously by Democratic members of the Resources Committee.
However, a majority of Republican members did not vote for CARA in committee,
and a majority of GOP congressmen have not cosponsored the bill despite a
multimillion dollar lobbying effort by interest groups profiting from CARA.
Included in CARA is nearly one billion dollars per year that can be used for
adverse condemnation of private property, enabling state and federal agencies
to force farmers, ranchers, fish and game clubs and others off their land.
It will also encourage additional wilderness designations on federal lands,
which will reduce recreational access for families, off-roaders, hunters, and
others.
Despite its disastrous effects on land owners and recreational access, CARA
is actually sponsored by Republican Congressmen and Senators from Alaska and
Louisiana. The bill creates a $3 billion dollar annual trust fund, exempt
from the appropriations process. CARA's distribution formula guarantees $313
million per year for Louisiana, one of the poorest states in the United
States, and provides a subsidy of $272 per person per year for every resident
of Alaska. The average state benefits less than $11 per person annually.
"CARA's Republican sponsors are selling out property owners, capitulating to
President Clinton and cutting a deal with preservationists," said Chuck
Cushman, Executive Director of the American Land Rights Association.
EXERPTS FROM DISSENT ATTACHED
DISSENTING VIEWS ON H.R. 701
Despite the best intentions of the authors, H.R. 701 continues to fail on
four critical points: 1) basic protections for private property owners; 2)
fiscal responsibility of our current national parks and public lands; 3)
rights for recreational access; 4) preserving the future of America's farming
communities.
Under H.R. 701, private landowners who have taken the best care of their
property are likely to be the first ones targeted for Land and Water
Conservation Fund acquisition, since their land will have the highest values
for wildlife. CARA penalizes sound private land management that promotes
wildlife habitat, by increasing the land's value, which leads to government
agencies targeting those parcels for acquisition and additional regulations.
As the government or a non-profit buys land in a small community, people are
forced out of their homes. There is less business to keep a retail store
running, a smaller congregation to keep a church's doors open, and less
reason to justify keeping a school or post office in the area. After a
point, government land acquisition causes a community to lose critical mass,
and it ceases to be a community.
CARA places special emphasis on targeting inholders for acquisition.
Inholders are owners of private property within and surrounded by government
lands. They frequently provide the most accessible and sometimes the only
supplies and campgrounds for visitors to national parks, forests and wildlife
refuges. Many inholders have undeveloped property, use it for family
recreation, and allow access through it to other parts of the park or forest.
Even though there is greatly increased demand for recreation, in the last 25
years, the number of privately operated campgrounds has declined by more than
30%. This has deprived inholders of a source of income and tourists and
visiting families access to their own federal lands. CARA, with its
unprecedented funding and power of condemnation, is a direct threat to
recreational access for all Americans.
As authorizers, it is negligent to continue ignoring the $5 billion
maintenance backlog in our existing national parks and other federal lands
that has been identified by the Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on
Interior. Unfortunately, this is exactly what CARA does. This backlog
includes maintaining trails, park benches, roads, public bathrooms and
improved housing and administrative offices for land management agency
employees. We believe that the federal government should be properly
maintaining and managing what it already owns, before approving a trust fund
that will finance massive new land acquisitions.
Helen Chenoweth-Hage (R-ID)
George Radanovich (R-CA)
Barbara Cubin (R-WY)
Mike Simpson (R-ID)
John Doolittle (R-CA)
Bob Schaffer (R-CO)
Jim Gibbons (R-NV)
Mac Thornberry (R-TX)
John Peterson (R-PA)
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