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Exotic Wildlife Association Alert: CALL America 2008

Dear Member,
 
We are counting down to the most important summit of local leaders fighting to restore property rights and local control.
 
In just sixteen days, CALL America 2008 will begin.  There are only two days left to reserve your hotel room and take advantage of the reduced room rates.   http://www.stewards.us/conference/callconf_08/call_lodging.html
 
November 13-15th in Austin Texas, you can learn how to protect your property rights, local economy and way of life, by utilizing a strategy that brings agency decision making down to the local level.
 
The program is packed with the people who have learned how to implement this strategy to fight endangered species listings, park expansions, grazing reductions, super corridor highways and many more devastating issues to property rights.
 
You will learn from people such as Dohn Henion, County Counsel for Del Norte County.  Del Norte sits on the northern costal border of California, is home to the Redwood National Park and have one of the largest populations of environmental activists in their county.  They are continually facing the conversion of private land to expanding state parks, and stringent restrictions from the California Coastal Commission, not to mention the endangered sea lions that inhabit their coastline.
 
They initiated coordination at the beginning of this year and Dohn will be sharing with you the coordination strategies they have implemented to begin stopping and reversing the restrictions on property rights in this beautiful county.
 
Pat Hickerson, Commissioner from Fremont County, Wyoming, will share his counties experiences using coordination to require consistency with their county plans through the Shoshone National Forest Plan revision.  They are using coordination to insist their roads remain open, their grazing and timber industries are protected and their tourism industry has access to the forest.
 
Sean Curtis from Modoc County, California, will explain how they used coordination to gain the commitment of the US Forest Service to keep all the user roads open in the Modoc Forest -- the roads that the ranchers, wood cutters and other landowners must have to stay in business – as the agency prepares its Travel Management Plan.  The Forest Service is shutting down access to the National Forests across the nation through this plan, however, they won't be doing this in Modoc County.
 
Ralph Snyder and Mayor Mae Smith, along with their counterparts on the Eastern Central Texas Commission in Texas, which has held up the Trans Texas Corridor for over a year, will report on how they have required accountability from one of the most anti-local control agencies in existence today, the Texas Department of Transportation.
 
Supervisors Teri Murrison (Tuolumne County, CA) and Linda Arcularious (Inyo County, CA) along with County Administrator Kevin Carunchio (Inyo) will be discussing their plans for using coordination to fight Wilderness expansions, grazing reductions and restricted access all of which will destroy their agriculture based counties if not protected through coordination.
 
And you will hear the latest from Jay Verhults of Wisconsin, where as many as seventeen townships are now preparing to use coordination to fight the state sanctioned "Smart Growth" zoning which will require buffer zones on streams, one home per 35 acres and many other restrictions which will destroy the rural landowners and agriculture based industries the small towns rely upon.
 
Those who have learned how to use this powerful authority already existent in our federal and state laws, are staying in business, improving their local economies, and preserving their way of life – even with today's top down command and control governments.
 
You can learn how to do the same is just sixteen short days.  Don't wait another year to find out what you can do from your own home to protect the fundamental right to own and control your private property in America.
 
If you are a concerned citizen, you need to be here so you can help your mayors, commissioners, and supervisors, make this work.
 
If you are a locally elected official, you need to be sure to attend so you can learn first hand how the many issues you face can be resolved in a manner that respects your local authority.
 
Regardless of who wins the upcoming Presidential election, you can protect what happens in your back yard, because the legal principles we rely upon are imbedded in state and federal statues.  The solution is already there.
All we need to do is use this powerful tool.
 
You don't want to miss the best chance you have to protect your land, local economy and way of life. 
 
Warm regards,
 
Margaret Byfield
Executive Director
Stewards of the Range
http://www.stewards.us/conference/callconf_08/call_home.html

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