"The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the greatest liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth." H.L. Mencken

This is a "no-spin" zone... no smoke and mirrors, no language deception, and no pulling the wool over people's eyes. 

   YS will never support the Wildlands Project and their partners’ plan to turn at least half of America into a wilderness of global reserve buffer land and travel corridors to protect UN-US Biospheres. Sounds impossible to do, but Gang Green, some government agency people, and some of our legislators have been working at it for years.  They call it “restoring” or “rewilding”, but those are just fancy words for land and water control.   

   Wolves are definitely a part of the Wildlands Project.  So are cougar, grizzlies, and other meat eaters; all meat eaters except man.  We’re all but trespassers in Yooperland now; us with our human footprint that disturbs habitat for every creepy, crawly thing that ecologists claim is endangered, threatened, or “sensitive” to traditional human activity.

   Sorry folks, but traditional hunting and two weeks at Yooper deer camp will soon be only fond memories of times past.  Gang Green wants your private land to complete their mosaic of buffer zones and connecting corridors around their core area UN-US Biospheres, and they’re going to get it come hell or high water or both.

   In the Michigan Nature Conservancy’s (MI-TNC) U. P. Conservation Plan, which was posted online until it got some negative attention last year, it’s stated that one of their Forest Management Strategies is to “work with the State legislature and state Department of Natural Resources to change funding for deer licenses so that reduction in deer herd size does not economically impact the DNR.” 

   Clearly, MI-TNC has plans for “their” Upper Peninsula “Last Great Places”, and they don’t include a whole lot of deer or deer license carrying hunters.  In fact, one attempt to bring about funding changes for the DNR was made in 2004 by former Natural Resources Commissioner Bill Parfet during the April 30^th meeting of the NRC Committee on Finance and Administration.  Parfet was a Commissioner from 1996 until 2004 and is also a Michigan Nature Conservancy Board member.   

   A section of the minutes reads:  “Chairman Parfet suggested setting up a private foundation and fund raising effort to exclusively support our natural resources and Department programs.  There is constituent concern that this might cause the Legislature to remove all the GF/GP from DNR’s budget, however, our GF/GP is already minimal.  Discussion ensued.”

   There was “constituent” concern?  Was “constituent” present at the committee meeting or did Parfet have a private powwow with “constituent” before hand?  Did Parfet dream this scheme up himself or did those offering to set up a “private foundation” and “fund raising” hatch it, perhaps some group like the MI-TNC?  More importantly, what exactly was the action of the committee after discussion ended?  Yea, nay, or later after hunters have been suckered into wiping out even more deer?

   Let’s face it.  For years, as this cockamamie ecosystem management scheme has been orchestrated, non-governmental ecoholic organizations have invasively inserted themselves into the government resource management planning scenario.