[ALDHA-L] FW: George W. Bush

>Subject: Bush and Federal Land..
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 10:33:05 -0500
>
>GEORGE BUSH'S ENVIRONMENTAL ADVISOR: "AUCTION OFF ALL FEDERAL LANDS
>INCLUDING NATIONAL PARKS"
>
>  Environmental Conservation Organization, 2/20/00
>
>Terry L. Anderson, environmental advisor to George W. Bush Jr., has
proposed
>to auction off all 600 million acres of federal public lands in the U.S.
>over the next 20-40 years. This not only incudes every National Forest,
>National Wildlife Refuge, and BLM District, it also includes every National
>Park and Monument. Under his proposal, non-profit environmental groups
could
>bid on the free market against the likes of Exxon to obtain the Arctic
>National Wildlife Refuge, or against Weyerhouser to obtain Yellowstone
>National Park, or against Phelps Dodge to obtain Grand Canyon National
Park.
>Any bets on how the bidding will go?
>
>Anderson is closely associated with several conservative think tanks
pushing
>for the privatization and/or commercialization of public lands.  He is the
>director of the Political Economy Research Center, a senior fellow at the
>Hoover Institution. PERC's website links to the Thoreau Institute which has
>proposed, among other nonsense, to privatize ownership of endangered
>species. Anderson's proposal was published by the CATO institute and can be
>viewed at
<http://www.cato.org/pubs/pas/pa-363es.html>
>
>Anderson freely admits that his corporate take-over agenda would be wildly
>unpopular with the American public. In an interview with the National
>Journal (10-23-99) he said that Bush is watching the polls and will not
>likely announce any radical public land agendas during the campaign. But
>after????



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