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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craig
8/28/2018 11:19:00 am
I have been seeing the influence of eco corporations infiltrate Alberta parks for years, these two bodies are in complete collusion , Alberta parks is run by Y2Y and funded to take over Canadians crown land to the tune of 3 million dollars , no one knows how many tens of thousands of dollars have been diverted to parks staff out of this budget , nor do we know , yet! how many politicians have taken the legal 10,000 dollars they are allowed to recieve legally under canadian law to lobby for these usa groups,
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Linda Van Immerzeel
3/12/2019 04:03:23 pm
Y2Y is raising its ugly head in our area trying to influence OHV riding on a so called "wildlife corridor", with Nadine Raynolds, a Y2Y program person living in the area. Bloody scary stuff!
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