Regionalism in California

The Critical Linkages: Bay Area and Beyond Project

Posted on September 4, 2014 Written by Conservation Lands Network

Con­ser­va­tion Lands Network:

Cal­i­for­nia is now sub­jected to cen­tral­ized land use con­trol. (AB32 SB375 SB1 and other Sacra­mento and NGO ini­tia­tives.) The envi­ron­ment is usu­ally the excuse. Pri­vate prop­erty is under mas­sive attack and the prop­erty own­ers are being set up to lose. The attached will give you a great view of how the Golden state has lost any tra­di­tional sense of being part of Amer­ica as it region­al­izes itself in con­for­mance to Agenda 21 goals.

Habi­tat loss and frag­men­ta­tion are the lead­ing threats to bio­di­ver­sity. Coun­ter­ing these threats requires main­tain­ing and restor­ing con­nec­tions between our exist­ing nat­ural areas to form a regional wild­land network.

Such an inter­con­nected sys­tem of wild­lands would allow nat­ural eco­log­i­cal processes—such as migra­tion and range shifts with cli­mate change–to con­tinue oper­at­ing as they have for millennia.

Crit­i­cal Link­ages: Bay Area & Beyond (Crit­i­cal Link­ages) iden­ti­fies 14 land­scape level con­nec­tions that together with the Con­ser­va­tion Lands Net­work pro­vide a com­pre­hen­sive plan for such a regional network.

Crit­i­cal Link­ages was designed to pre­serve land­scape level processes and main­tain con­nected wildlife pop­u­la­tions from Men­do­cino National For­est in the north to the beaches of the Santa Lucia Range on Los Padres National For­est and Hearst Ranch in the south, and east­ward to the south­ern end of the Inner Coast Range. These 14 link­ages of cru­cial bio­log­i­cal value could be irre­triev­ably com­pro­mised by devel­op­ment projects over the next decade unless imme­di­ate con­ser­va­tion action occurs. These land­scape link­ages and the wild­lands they con­nect are meant to serve as the back­bone of a regional wild­lands net­work to which smaller wild­lands can be connected.

The Crit­i­cal Link­ages effort was led by Sci­ence and Col­lab­o­ra­tion for Con­nected Wild­lands (SC Wild­lands), a non­profit focused on con­nec­tiv­ity con­ser­va­tion. SC Wild­lands was asked to expand upon the work of the Bay Area Open Space Council’s Con­ser­va­tion Lands Net­work. The prod­ucts devel­oped for Crit­i­cal Link­ages are meant to fine tune the Con­ser­va­tion Lands Net­work to ensure func­tional habi­tat con­nec­tiv­ity at a land­scape scale. SC Wild­lands col­lab­o­rated with the Bay Area Open Space Coun­cil and numer­ous other part­ner­ing agen­cies, orga­ni­za­tions and indi­vid­u­als to develop the Crit­i­cal Link­ages con­ser­va­tion strategy.

Back­ground

Crit­i­cal Link­ages launched in 2010 with two habi­tat con­nec­tiv­ity work­shops where sci­en­tists, land man­agers and plan­ners iden­ti­fied a suite of focal species to lay the bio­log­i­cal foun­da­tion for link­age plan­ning. Two more sym­po­sium were held in the sum­mer of 2012 and gave inter­ested stake­hold­ers the oppor­tu­nity to review and com­ment on the Draft Link­age Net­work. Over 175 peo­ple attended and par­tic­i­pated in the symposiums.

For more infor­ma­tion, visit the SC Wild­lands web­site or con­tact Kris­teen Pen­rod at (877) WILDLAND.

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  Source: http://agenda21news.com/2014/09/critical-linkages-bay-area-beyond-project/#more-2648
  Comments
  Regionalism is dangerous and unless the Georgia legislature repeals HR 1216 and HR 277 and relegates their unelected, appointed Regional Commissions to planning and recommending, elected officials and voters will be cut out of the decision-making process.  We will be left without “representative governance”.  That means, federal agencies and regional commissions will destroy our property rights for the “environment”.  This communist plan will morph our states into larger “regions” with appointed governance identical to the Soviet system under the USSR. The U.S. Constitution will be eliminated.  Further, the U.S. Mexico and Canada will be merged under appointed governance reporting to the U.N., the puppet world government. The destruction of sovereign countries in the Middle East is part of this plan.  These countries will also disappear.  We can stop this plan, by firing all of our elected representatives and electing Constitutional Conservatives who will reverse our economic decline and end UN Agenda 21 implementation in the U.S.  In the meantime, city and county officials can stop this action on the local level.
  Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader