A Dark Glimpse Into The Future

New Mexico Forest Restoration Principles Announced by Diverse Task Force ALBUQUERQUE (May 17, 2006)-In an unprecedented collaborative effort, 13 organizations jointly announced the release of the New Mexico Forest Restoration Principles that will reduce conflict and legal challenges for forest harvesting projects in New Mexico. The 18-member New Mexico Biomass Evaluation Task Force announced today publication of 18 principles for the design and implementation of forest restoration projects that would produce small-diameter wood used to fuel biomass power plants and other wood utilizing facilities.

New Mexico Biomass Evaluation TaskforcePrimary Contact List
Name Affiliation Phone
Patrick McCarthy The Nature Conservancy 505-988-1542, x 217
Mike DeBonis Forest Guild 505-983-8992, x 14
Dave Borland USDI Bureau of Land Management 505-438-7523
Margot Wilson Sierra Club Rio Grande Chapter 505-744-5860
Jerry Payne USDAForest Service 505-842-3391
Todd Schulke Center for Biological Diversity 505-388-8799
Kim Kostelnik NM State Forestry 505-476-3337
John Waconda USDI Bureau of Indian Affairs 505-563-3360
Bryan Bird Forest Guardians 505-988-9126, x 157
John Tunberg USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service 505-761- 4488
Jim Norwick NM State Land Office 505-827-5095
Brent Racher Restoration Solutions 505-627-7577
Marc Christensen Public Service Company of New Mexico 505-241-2882
Rosemary Romero Rosemary Romero Consulting (Facilitator) 505-982-9805

This "Taskforce" billed as "Diverse" and that has "announced the release of the New Mexico Forest Restoration Principles that will reduce conflict and legal challenges for forest harvesting projects in New Mexico" tells it all by what it does NOT say. It is a glimpse into a dark future, the future only imagined in science fiction novels like Fahrenheit 451 and the Orwellian 1984.

Just as Orwell observed in 1984 and Animal Farm, and Carroll noted in Alice in Wonderland "words mean no more and no less than I mean them to". To use the word "Diverse" about this "Taskforce" is like calling one of those old Mafia get-togethers a "cross-section of America." Where are the people directly affected by the "New Mexico Forest Restoration Principles"? Where are the ranchers and farmers and sheepmen and the hunters and the rural residents and rural town governments? Who spoke for the private landowner and the public land user? Who looked out for rural businesses and future road expansions and improvements? Who represented County governments? Who represented all the rural employment needs? Who represented government costs and private property rights? Bureaucrats, consultants, and the powerful Non-government organizations with all their radical agendas that run the show, that's who.

The Founding Fathers knew the danger of giving power to elite rulers but decades of affluence and belief in a growing hodgepodge of nonsense that masks the hidden agendas of those who would rule us has led us to think the elites "know best".

Look at that "Contact List" and think about the future of hunting and ranching and fishing and farming and pet ownership in America. Soon enough it will be the USDA and HSUS and PETA setting the "New Animal Guardianship Rules". Then there will be Greenpeace and the Commerce Department setting the "New Fish Sanctuary and Boatpath Rules". Then based on "precedents" there will be the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Defenders of Wildlife and World Wildlife Fund setting the "New Native Ecosystem Preservation Rules" and the US Forest Service and the Wilderness Society and Sierra Club setting the "New Urban Corridor Connection Rules". All the while the papers and press releases will chirp about the "Diverse Task Force" and how it "will reduce conflict and legal challenges".

George Orwell and Ray Bradbury and Lewis Carroll were all correct and insightful in what they wrote. Only thing is we thought they were describing a future totalitarian society or Russia under communism or England during the Victorian period. Who'd a "thunk" they were talking about the USA in 2006?Jim Beers15 June 2006- If you found this worthwhile, please share it with others. Thanks.- This article and other recent articles by Jim Beers can be found athttp://jimbeers.blogster.com (Jim Beers Common Sense)- Jim Beers is available for consulting or to speak. Contact:jimbeers7@verizon.net-

Jim Beers is a retired US Fish & Wildlife Service Wildlife Biologist, Special Agent, Refuge Manager, Wetlands Biologist, and Congressional Fellow. He was stationed in North Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska, New York City, and Washington DC. He also served as a US Navy Line Officer in the western Pacific and on Adak, Alaska in the Aleutian Islands. He has worked for the Utah Fish & Game, Minneapolis Police Department, and as a Security Supervisor in Washington, DC. He testified three times before Congress; twice regarding the theft by the US Fish & Wildlife Service of $45 to 60 Million from State fish and wildlife funds and once in opposition to expanding Federal Invasive Species authority. He resides in Centreville, Virginia with his wife of many decades.