Subject: [proprights] Nature Conservancy Is Not Good
January 29, 2006
Dear Forbes, Charity Navigator,
American Institute of Philanthropy, Give.org and Harris:
I am a
property owner on 10 acres in Washington state. I noticed
your endorsements of Nature Conservancy on their web site at https://nature.org/aboutus/ after receiving
one of their soliciting mailings for money. I am the wrong person to
ask for money to give to any environmental organization.
As a member
of property rights groups here in Washington state we are experiencing
escalating aggressive over reaching property takings by the local
governments as well as radical environmental groups.
As
you may know there is a national environmental trend taking private property
against the individual owners choice not only with eminent domain takings
such as New London CT vs. Kelo but in the rural areas. Rural property
owners are experiencing private property takings through excessive
government regulation, forced ordinances, draconian enforcement, massive buy
up of large tracks of land by rich and powerful environmental groups that do
not live in the area, preferential big developer deals with the cities,
etc.
We are also seeing our national forest systemically
shut down from use by rich out of state powerful eastern environmental
lobbies such as Nature Conservancy.
In Montana we were
prevented from salvaging the burned down timber from more recent
forest fires. The logs had to be harvested within two years to be
usable. This was stopped by environmental lobbies. What a waste
of such a needed resource and a stick in the eye to the local unemployed
logging industry. Now there is growing concern from Montana people
that the ground cover is becoming more of a tinder box because of these
forced green practices. Lumber mills and entire towns have been shut
down because of these radical green organizations. We are forced to
buy our lumber from Canada now and can only harvest timber from private
lands. Timber is our most renewable resource. Yet the
green lobby has systemically sued the government and shut down an entire
industry devoted to providing lumber to build our homes. This has
caused enormous problems and increases in home prices.
Green groups
have successfully shut down our sources of fossil and nuclear fuel further
pressuring the price of power to go up. Green lobbies sue and block
the construction of more refineries, oil drilling, coal fired power plants,
nuclear power plants, block additional dams for hydro power,
etc. While in their self righteous green ideology they cry for
more green power which is impossible to provide economically at commercial
power loads.
I would like to ask you to review your endorsements with these
stories in mind. Gone are the days when giving money to these green
causes is good. They have amassed over 10 billion dollar war chest
and sue at the drop of a hat and take huge blocks of land out of
public use and circulation. We are experiencing it here in
Washington state. I cannot use half of my land plus have limited
access because of these insane environmental organizations.
Their
calendars may be attractive as well as their web sites and they may convince
you of their great causes for the environment but their good intentions have
long since been covered over by their over reaching self righteous green
aggression. The UN and government agencies and the non government
organizations like Nature Conservancy and the Sierra Club are creating
movements of green ideology of sustaining development and vast wildlife
corridors that threaten the core of freedom and liberty in this
country. They are in bed with many in the government. The
local property owners do not have a chance. The King County government
and two local environmental groups are suing the rural property owners in
King County to stop us from merely voting on whether we want our property
rights stolen. Another fact to know is the environmentalist never
imposes these draconian regulations on himself nor does he live in the
country where they are imposed. The environmentalist invariably lives
in the city. What does that tell you?
I have been involved in
defending our property rights for a couple years and it is a huge local and
national problem. The local King County Council and Executive and two
small environmental groups have stolen our property. Our case is
before the Washington State Supreme Court. It was just heard and will
be decided within the near future.
This is a cultural war between the
cities and environmental lobbies and the rural property owners.
It is a battle between David and Goliath. It is near impossible to
convey to you on email the destructive enormity of these green organizations
(Non Government Organizations)
I urge you to drop support and
recommendation of Natures Conservancy. Also I urge you to review all
of your green organization support. Especially check out the list of
the top 100 environmental foundations at https://www.sovereignty.net/p/ngo/wealthy.htm.
Nature Conservancy is near 13% of the total assets of these 100.
I
would also urge you to increase your recommendation of support to property
rights organizations who are battling on coffee can budgets against the
green machinery and their corresponding government
agencies.
Sincerely,
John R. Venrick Washington
State
When evil, injustice, and violence are being committed, if
individuals look on unconcerned, they must be regarded as accomplices in
the crime. In the end they also suffer as much as the criminals by
their passive association they provide encouragement to the evil
doers." SSB "When evil, injustice, and violence are being committed, if
individuals look on unconcerned, they must be regarded as accomplices in
the crime. In the end they also suffer as much as the criminals by
their passive association they provide encouragement to the evil
doers."
SSB