Aww Man - Oak, you are always finding stuff to make me think! This small tidbit is worth re-typing here:
"All around the world the move is on to transfer the rain forests, the deserts, the jungles, the plains, even private property to the consortium of foundations, international agencies and councils,
all of which are interlocked through directorships and agenda.
"In almost every state of America - I can think of no exception - local environmental groups are pushing ahead with their plans to seize ownership of some of the most productive and beautiful areas of our planet. The same thing is happening in other parts of the globe: Africa, South and Central America, Europe,
Australia, New Zealand, Canada, even Asia. And always and everywhere, there is some local crisis or pending catastrophe to justify their move. In my home state of Washington, the beneficiary of this concern is the spotted owl. In Montana it is the timber wolf. In Nebraska the whooping crane. In Africa the elephant takes center stage. (In the case of the spotted owl, the leader of the Sierra Club was quoted as saying "If the spotted owl did not exist, we would find it necessary to genetically engineer one.")