By Michelle Malkin
Have you heard of the “Great Outdoors
Initiative”? Chances are, you haven’t. But across the country,
White House officials have been meeting quietly with environmental
groups to map out government plans for acquiring untold millions of
acres of both public and private land. It’s another stealthy power grab
through executive order that promises to radically transform the
American way of life.
In April, President Obama issued a
memorandum outlining his “21st
century strategy for America’s great outdoors.” It was addressed
to the Interior Secretary, the Agriculture Secretary, the head of the
Environmental Protection Agency and the chair of the Council on
Environmental Quality. The memo calls on the officials to conduct
“listening and learning sessions” with the public to “identify the
places that mean the most to Americans, and leverage the support of the
Federal Government” to “protect” outdoor spaces. Eighteen of 25 planned
sessions have already been held. But there’s much more to the agenda
than simply “reconnecting Americans to nature.”
The federal government, as the memo
boasted, is the nation’s “largest land manager.” It already owns roughly
one of every three acres
in the United States. This is apparently not enough. At a “listening
session” in New Hampshire last week, government bureaucrats trained
their sights on millions of private
forest land throughout the New England region. Agriculture
Secretary Tom Vilsack crusaded for “the need for additional attention
to the Land and Water Conservation Fund — and the need to promptly
support full funding of that fund.” ...
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