From: Donald C. Amador, 112531,1311
TO: "Amador", INTERNET:brdon_a@sharetrails.org
DATE: 8/28/01 2:56 PM

RE: Copy of: letter to Gov. Davis re: State Parks and Wildlands Project

Dear M/U Interests,

I hope you are as concerned as I am about this issue. The FS, BLM, State
Parks et al is working with
green groups and land trusts in CA to ID and aquire (can anyone say CARA?)
private property for Dave
Foreman's Wildlands Project.

I would encourage you to review CWC/Spitler's 76 page study to expanding
the Wildlands Project in CA with the
help of government agencies. You may want to send your own letters.
http://www.calwild.org/pubs/reports/linkages/index.htm
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BLUERIBBON COALITION, INC.


August 28, 2001

The Honorable Gray Davis
Governor, State of California
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814

Re: CA State Parks and Earth First!’s Wildlands Project

Dear Governor Davis:

I appreciate your efforts to address the management of this state’s
motorized recreation program through
the collaborative process at the Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Recreation
Division. However, I am concerned about
California State Parks being listed as a sponsor of a narrowly focused and
non-inclusive process to green-line
private property and inholdings to expand Dave Foreman’s (Foreman is a
co-founder of the radical eco-group
Earth First!) Wildlands Project.

California State Parks is listed as a sponsor and participant in a newly
released eco-report by the California
Wilderness Coalition. Missing Linkages is a 76 page study that details
public and private lands to be apparently
“acquired” through a cooperative effort by over 150 various government and
quasi-government agencies. These
organizations include green groups, land trusts, public zoos, the Forest
Service, the BLM, the National Park Service,
county governments and other interests. No property rights, agriculture,
access, or business groups were
represented in this report.

Look at the Klamath Basin and other examples such as the King Range
National Conservation Area where
preservation groups either file suit or work with an agency to close land
to farming or other multiple-uses.
These are prime illustrations of access and private property interests
being forced to become the “willing sellers”
identified in Missing Linkages.

Please review the role that State Parks is playing in what appears to be a
well-thought out regulatory and land
acquisition scheme by land trusts, eco-groups, and land management
agencies to create wildlife corridors out of this
state’s ranch and farming regions.

Thanks for your time in this all too important matter.


Sincerely,

/s/ DON AMADOR