What is important to understand for both of our countries is that our governments engaged in an agreement that was kept from our citizens. It is this agreement that has accelerated the environmental movement dramatically. In understanding your local issue involving land use bans and restrictions, it is important that the larger picture is understood so that opposing local issues can be addressed with full knowledge of where they originate. Following is a brief history of how we got here. In no way, shape, or form were U.S. citizens made aware of this, nor do we approve of the action that took place. Americans are as angry as Canadians over our difficulty with our governments. None the less, this is how it was started. In 2010, the Obama administration issued a memorandum called America's Great Outdoors (AGO). In that memorandum was a directive for the Department of Interior (DOI) to create 22 large landscape cooperatives across the U.S. which was done via Secretarial Order (SO) 3289 (Sec 3 (c)). While the SO references only the U.S., Canadian provinces of Alberta and British Columbia were also included in the Great Northern LCC (GNLCC). The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) was assigned the task of implementing the GNLCC and identify both B.C. and Alberta as participants (Pg 6). There was no U.S. congressional authorization for any of the activity nor citizen involvement from either country. As a GNLCC member, Y2Y should be seen as the umbrella over our countries as the main driving force in the GNLCC. There are a multitude of sub-organizations with whom they partner on both sides of the border and smaller initiative groups they typically start with specific targets for implementation of their agenda. In fact, most smaller organizations are the ones we end up dealing with at a local level, the foot soldiers to Y2Y. In Canada, Y2Y is called the Yellowstone to to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation and is a registered charity (#86430 1841 RR0001). To understand the depth of how both of our countries are impacted by Y2Y here is their latest map. Y2Y is the the behind the scenes force underneath that border with multiple projects they are implementing with their partners, and funding, some of which is listed under the Funding category under the Library Tab. The GNLCC map similarly covers the same area. Y2Y is a International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) member, just type in Yellowstone to Yukon in the search box and United State for the country. CPAWS is another organization that is an IUCN member, type in CPAWS for the acronym and Canada for the state. Not only is Y2Y part of the GNLCC, but through its membership, IUCN objectives are being implemented. Their website lists several Hot Projects, here is the map. In this map, Y2Y identifies their objectives for protection, linkage, and connectivity. For Canada that includes the Greater Mackenzie Mountains, Upper Liard River, Stikine-Nass-Skeena Headwaters, Muskwa-Kechika Ecosystem, Peace River Break, and the Central Canadian Rocky Mountains. In the U.S. they are actively targeting the Salmon-Selway-Bitterroot, High Divide, and Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Targets that apply to both of our countries includes the Central Canadian Rocky Mountains, Cabinet-Purcell Mountain Corridor, and Crown of the Continent.
This is their larger objective over all of the land. Within each area they have local partnerships that are attacking you on land use issues such as banning OHV use, interfering in forest plan amendments, declaring a wilderness area or a river as wild or scenic, using different wildlife as justification for a migratory corridor, getting you to place your land into a conservation easement, or outright purchasing land for the same purpose, and use of wildlife overpasses. Every one of these actions are for the larger goal of taking land use away, gaining control over the resources, and controlling land use through regulations. The North Saskatchewan Regional Plan is an example of what regulations they think should be included. Along with this is comes more refined land use regulations, such as what Jodi Hilty, Y2Y President and Chief Scientist, came up with in Guidelines and Incentives for Conservation Development in Local Land-Use Regulations, or this paper, Land use Planning: A potential force for retaining habitat connectivity in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and Beyond. These technocrats want to dictate how you live on your own land. Because of the GNLCC partnerships, and "friendships", with provincial, federal, and state governments, Y2Y has tremendous influence over laws and policies. In fact, most of these government agencies hold the same ideological beliefs as Y2Y, using IUCN criteria in their work (xvii) such as the Red List for Threatened Species, or Ecosystems. The IUCN even has categories for protected areas which aligns with the GNLCC and Y2Y, along with governance being part of the eventual IUCN plan. That plan does not include you but rather NGOs and governments making the decisions for you, just as they have been doing. This is why our citizens have such a difficult time getting their officials to respond to their input and hard work. It is also why "stakeholder" groups are a farce, stacked with people who represent NGOs, and the guise of stakeholder involvement isn't true, it has all been predetermined, just like all of it has been predetermined. This is the larger picture that everyone needs to understand as they confront the local issues. It is the larger issue that we are fighting. Y2Y began in 1993, which means a bunch of scientists, from both Canada and the U.S., along with their government partners, have grown into a massive force over the last 25 years, usurping local authority and our right to representation. As you look into the faces of those you are opposing, remember that it is most likely they do not understand this larger picture, it is kept very well hidden, and Y2Y lies to them about it saying it is all a conspiracy theory. As best that you can, educate them, show them the proof of what is hidden from them. It can, and has been done. When people understand and realize the truth, they can come to a different conclusion. And Y2Y knows it, they know how damaging it is for them to be exposed. That is the purpose of this website, to expose them by educating you, and you in turn educating others. That will bind both of our countries together for strength. Next will be an article on the more forceful NGOs and initiatives that lie in our countries.
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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. |