As noted in the GNLCC Canada article, since 2010 both Canadian and American governments have been in partnerships with conservation initiatives and Non-governmental organizations (ENGO/NGO) through the Great Northern Large Landscape Cooperative (GNLCC). The Landscape Conservation Cooperative Network (LCCN), maintains a website that includes all LCC activity, including the GNLCC. What is so stunning about the LCCN is just how many organizations and governments are in bed with each other to take our land, and land use, away from us. All of the organizations are listed here. Under the Library tab on this site are lists of GNLCC organizations and their partnering NGOs, individuals who participate with those organizations and the GNLCC, and government officials who are joined with them. This article begins a series of more in depth exposure of these initiatives, government partnerships, individuals, ENGO/NGOs, and their common agendas working in each country, and in both for "trans-boundary connectivity". It is not about OHV or snowmobile use, saving rivers or wildlife. Wildlife, terrestrial, aquatic, avian, and biological are just pawns to justify their claim that land is needed for conservation using corridors, conservation easements, and other means to restrict and ban use. Their true goal is controlling all land, public and private, dictating how land is used, and to design the landscape in their vision. These groups and individuals are our adversaries in both countries, all working with each other against us. Because they have an incestuous relationship with our governments, our elected officials do not respond to constituents for solutions and decisions about land use. The government and environmentalists have a plan they are forcing onto us. These groups do not believe in jurisdictional boundaries, between our countries, provinces, states, or cities. They believe in "environmental" boundaries since wildlife and habitat transcend jurisdictional boundaries. There is no regard for sovereignty. Following is an introduction to some, but not all, of those groups and governments as listed on the GNLCC website, there is no separation between them, they are all interconnected, individuals and groups are often seen crossing over each other. It is important to understand all of the forces we are working against, it is larger than people realize. As we focus on local fights for land use, it distracts from the larger picture as plans are continually developed for restricting our ability to use our land. And they know it. As we continue to build this website continue to check back. Canada Alberta Government (AE) Alberta Environment & Parks (AEP) British Columbia (BC) BC Ministry of Forest, Lands (BCMFL) BC Ministry of Environment (BCME) Environment Canada (EC) Government of Yukon (GY) University of BC and Alberta Parks Canada (PC) United States U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Federal Highway Administration (FHA) Department of Transportation (DOT) U.S. Geological Service (USGS) U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Department of Interior (DOI) Department of Energy (DOE) Department of Defense (DOD) Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Idaho Idaho Fish & Game (IDFG) Western Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) University of Idaho (UI) Montana Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife, & Parks (MDFWP) University of Montana (UM) WAFWA Conservation Initiatives Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) Yellowstone to Yukon Initiative - Canada (Y2YI) Vital Ground (VG) Center for Large Landscape Conservation (CLLC) Non-governmental organizations (NGO) The Nature Conservancy (TNC) Sierra Club (SC) Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Wilderness Society (WS) Urban Land Institute (ULI) Heart of the Rockies (HOR) Greater Yellowstone Coalition (GYC) Crown of the Continent (COC) Crown Managers Partnership (CMP) Canadian Parks & Wilderness Society (CPAWS) Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (LILP) Heart of the Rockies (HOR) Love Your Headwaters Western Transportation Institute (WTI) Institute for Landscape Conservation Design (iLCD) Wildsight Heart of the Rockies (HOR) Individuals Harvey Locke (Y2Y) Gary Tabor (CLLC) Kim Trotter (Y2Y) Candace Batycki (Y2Y) Stephen Legault (Y2Y) Aran O'Carroll (CPAWS) Kathy Rinaldi (GYC) Land Trusts (HOR) Ian Dyson (AEP, CMP, COC) Cindy Sawchuk (AEP, CMP) Greg Watson (USFWS, CMP) Brad Jones (CMP) Peter Swain (AEP, CMP) Steve Frye (MT, CMP) Linh Hoang (USFS, CMP) Megan Evans (AEP, CMP) Kim Davitt (VG, COC) Melly Reuling (CLLC, COC) Joel Berger (GBDC, CSU, WCS) Jody Hilty (Y2Y) Ray Rasker (Headwaters Economics) Rob Campellone (iLCD, USFWS, NPS, TNC) Renee Callahan (CLLC) Funding Our adversaries in kind include funding from Wilburforce, Tides Canada, Sonoran Institute, Pew Charitable Trusts, Turner Foundation. Below are the GNLCC Steering Committee members. The GNLCC created an initiative and formed group called the Rocky Mountain Partner Forum (RMPF) consisting of Canadian and U.S. governments, calling it an "...international network of conservation practitioners working to connect our efforts and achieve landscape-level conservation of natural resources and processes in the Rocky Mountains." The Alberta Environment and Parks participates in this along with U.S. government agencies including the IDFG, USFS, and USFWS. Their partnerships include Y2Y, WCS, GYC, TNC, MSU, CLLC, WS, and others, all of whose agenda is to keep us from using our land. Target areas include the GYE, HD, COC, CPMC and all of the areas in the map below. Overall for both of our countries, here are some focal areas they are targeting. Now that some of these groups and individuals have been introduced to you, future articles will go more into depth about their activities in both countries, what agendas they are involved in, and how your right to use your land is being taken by them, and your government.
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This article is the first in a series to alert Canadians to a scam that also involves the United States, a plot involving both our governments to place our land into various forms of conservation and take our right to use our land away from us. Sound unbelievable? Read on. In 2010 the Obama administration, via a memorandum, directed the US Department of Interior (DOI) to create large landscape cooperatives. Twenty Two cooperatives were created in the US. For purposes of this article, the focus will be on the Great Northern Large Landscape Conservation Cooperative (GNLCC) and Alberta. As seen in the map below, the GNLCC stretches from Colorado into British Columbia, including western Alberta, where many aggressive land use restrictions are being sought. These cooperatives are a "regional" approach to landscape conservation that ignore the boundary between our countries and jurisdictional authority. Both of our countries are under attack by the GNLCC. Meant to be an "international network", the GNLCC covers 300 million acres, a network of US federal agencies, Canadian provincial and federal governments, and conservation initiatives. Just naming a few, GNLCC members include Alberta Land Trust Alliance, Land Trust Alliance of British Columbia, Y2Y Initiative, Alberta Prairie Conservation Forum, Canadian Wildlife Service, and Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation. These LCCs were initiated without our knowledge, involvement, or consent and give tremendous authority to conservation initiatives. Concealed from us, this is the primary force behind our land being taken from us for use and why conservation initiatives have such influence over our governments, including Alberta. The Plains and Prairie Potholes LCC (PPPLCC) covers the southeast portion of Alberta. These partnerships are listed on the Alberta Environment and Parks website, but they don't tell you about them or what they are doing.
The players are all the same, Harvey Locke, Gary Tabor, Kim Trotter, Candace Batycki, Stephen Lagault, and others all work towards achieving GNLCC goals. In this document you will see the Government of Alberta, Environment Canada, and British Columbia are members of the GNLCC. There is also a map of the Crown of the Continent (COC) that includes the western portion of Alberta, but primarily engulfs British Columbia, and a map of connectivity targets. The Government of Alberta - Environment and Sustainable Resource Development is an active participant with the COC but when GNLCC and COC is searched on their website there is no information. They hide it from you. Crown Managers Partnership (CMP) members include Alberta Environment and Parks, Alberta Agriculture and Forestry, British Columbia Ministry of Forests, US federal agencies, and ENGOs. Brad Jones, Robert Sissions, and Megan Evans represent various Canadian government agencies on the COC leadership team, and the GNLCC has funded them. They have a "Transboundary Conservation Initiative" that does not include involvement by Canadians or Americans. Alberta is in the crosshairs for their Strategic Conservation Framework. This is just one hidden group you are fighting. Basically, GNLCC believes land is "fragmented" by development, impeding the movement of wildlife. Protected areas such as national parks and wilderness areas are "isolated" from each other, meaning the land in between must be placed into forms of conservation so that there is a "link" between the protected areas for "connectivity". Unprotected areas are targeted for linkage using wildlife, habitat, aquatic, riparian, and ecological as the ruse. The British Columbia Ministry of Environment participated in a study to identify linkage areas in 2012 and 2015. Y2Y also works to identify linkage zones. This short video explains connectivity. To eliminate fragmentation the GNLCC and its partners target unprotected land with conservation easements, banning use such as for OHV and snowmobile users, and wildlife overpasses. They work to put land into various categories of corridors such as for wildlife and habitat. If an area can be declared a corridor (pg 11), it is then used as a basis for protection for wildlife movement. With that protection comes restrictive or banned use, and also justification for restrictive land use policies, including how a private property owner can use their land. According to Y2Y, "Areas which are identified as core and connectivity habitat, are the focus of restrictive management practices on public lands, and are the focus of land acquisition and conservation easements on private lands." While this article is about the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem the same concepts apply to all GNLCC land for restrictive land use policies. Both of our governments are working on targeting species at risk, or species of greatest conservation need. The species and their habitat will be used as justification for conservation, taking more land use away from us, and affecting private land owners. There are many initiatives working with the GNLCC which will be discussed later. But all of the objectives are the same. While distracting our attention with local issues that involve taking away our land use, behind the scenes they are diabolically plotting an agenda to put large landscapes into conservation that will take our land away from us and our ability to use it, and redesigning how we are allowed to use it, called landscape conservation design. It is time for Canada to join hands with the U.S. to fight this corrupt governmental takeover of our land that erases our boundaries and sovereignty, strips us of our right to use our land, obliterates our right to representation, and in essence has created a shadow government that is in collusion with conservation initiatives. This is where the fight lies. |