30 by 30: Conserving America the Beautiful
Biden Administration seeks to conserve 30% of America’s lands and waters by 2030
The Mule Deer Foundation sees lots to like about the Biden Administration’s newly released Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful initiative. The plan, released a few days ago, includes plans that support big game migration corridors and winter range conservation efforts that will benefit the struggling mule deer population. Unlike whitetail deer, which seem to thrive in relatively close contact with humans, muley numbers are a matter of concern for many conservationists.
The plan establishes guiding principles for the implementation of the vision outlined by President Biden in January to conserve 30% of the nation’s lands and waters by the year 2030. This includes implementing plans that were created under the Trump administration in 2018 at MDF’s Western Hunting and Conservation Expo. The framework specifically recommends expanding collaborative conservation of fish and wildlife habitats.
The plan is also popular with other sportsmen’s conservation outfits, earning plaudits from the National Deer Association (NDA) and the National Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF).
The framework outlines eight specific principles for implementing the conservation vision and ensuring the effort will be successful with long-lasting benefits. Of primary importance is the need for a collaborative and inclusive process to build consensus on local conservation efforts. In addition, the vision seeks to honor private property rights, encourage voluntary stewardship on working landscapes, and recognize tribal sovereignty, all of which are essential to conserving migration corridors that cross many land ownership boundaries. The final two principles focus on the use of science to guide conservation efforts and building on existing tools and strategies—like the big game migration initiative, State Wildlife Action Plans, migratory bird joint ventures, and Farm Bill conservation programs—that provide flexibility and adaptive approaches to conservation.
“The Mule Deer Foundation has been on the leading edge of implementing habitat conservation and restoration projects on big game migration corridors and seasonal ranges over the last few years and we appreciate the Administration’s recognition of this successful collaborative conservation effort in their America the Beautiful initiative,” commented MDF President/CEO Joel Pedersen. “In addition, the framework’s elements of incentivizing voluntary conservation efforts on private lands, expanding outdoor recreational opportunities, investing in habitat restoration and resilience, and supporting locally led conservation mirror the priorities carried forward to the Administration by the sporting-conservation community.”
“We welcome the opportunity to work with this Administration as they continue to develop the details on how to implement this framework,” concluded Pedersen. “We appreciate that many of the priorities expressed by hunting and angling groups were recognized in their recommendations and look forward to ensuring that the actions meet the ideals expressed in the America the Beautiful initiative.”
It is all about control. Take from the rangers and the farmers then the government has control over what is raised and how will it is taken care of, The government went broke trying to run a cat house how do you think they could take care of the land better than owners who have cared for it 100 years. Land that had been in the family for generations?
Do not fall for the lies of big government.
Biden’s plan isn’t about conservation it’s about control. The more things they control the happier they are. The Biden administration and the democrat party are not benevolent groups. Quite the contrary. They are evil people hell bent on exerting control over the populace of this once great country. These people are not much different from Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao, Fidel Castro, Hugo Chavez and others. they want total control and to be in charge of everyone’s life from cradle to grave. they are indoctrinating our children to think that capitalism is a terrible economic system and that socialism is far better and more fair. The truth is the only fairness they seek is to have everyone not in their government cabal to be subjugated under their control. Don’t buy the Biden lie!!!!
your a crazy republican who would rather have Adolf Hitler ( the Donald) run our country under his spell of doom.
I just hope the leaders at MDF, NWTF, and NDA are smart enough to see through the smoke screen and not jump on the Biden band wagon. If they do they will loose my support and probably many others in the process. Hopefully they are reading this.
Just part of the communist move to restrict and remove private property. Remember the words of the WEF “You will own nothing and you will be happy!”
If it looks like a land grab, smells and acts like a land grab, it’s a land grab. One of the many (worst) was the Keystone XL, for which Canadian Companies took land from US citizens. Think about how many foreign countries are buying land in the US? China, Japan, etc. have been doing it all along. It makes more sense to combat the cause of the low muledeer population, Like the CWD Endemic Chronic Wasting Disease, Epizootic Hemmhoragic Disease, Bluetongue, and Mange.
Forgot to mention: these “corridors” will unite the herds from being isolated pockets which is a great way to spread these highly transmissible diseases.
More govt. control over the people!!!
If you were watching the actions that have taken place since Biden took office, you might want to look deeper before getting on his bandwagon. Yes, I want to see mule deer supported. But shutting down pipelines and such with the words of conserving animal habitat is a joke. All it did was to put many people out of work in both this country and our neighbors to the north. All to end global warming, another scam the dem’s came up with. If you take the time to do total research into, COVID, global warming, police defunding, etc., you’ll see the pattern that is leading us to a global government that at which time we all will loose all our rights to do anything but live in their cities under totalitarian rule “In order to save the planet around us.” Our constitution doesn’t allow this, in fact it protects us from this, but only if the American people take a stand. Making corridors??? Right! That’s the beginning of what one has already said, spaces of no access and if there is access, it’s for the elite. And at every possible chance that “Corridor” will grow, by what ever means. That includes land grabs. “No big deal, it’s not my land.” Until they come to move you out of suburbia and into the city. Hitler didn’t happen overnight, he started small and unnoticed. I say it’s time for the American people to take notice before the snowball that’s rolling down the hill gets to big to control. Government in this country is supposed to be controlled by the people, all the people, and not the other way around. Right now, the only ones in control are big pharma’s and the B. Gates of the country., the elites as they’re called. Japan “Woke the Giant” when they struck Pearl Harbor. I say it’s time that “Giant” was awakened again.
Wake up from your crazy dream and realize the truth.
I agree Ted ,Time to start the big push back from these evil bastards., or it will be too late. May already be!!
I agree with everyone . It is just a power grab so that the people of this once great country can be controlled.
I agree with Christopher, The Democrats, especially Biden cannot be trusted at any level. All they want is more power, whether it is over land, money, food, guns, or recreation. I would not give them an inch of land as it will end up being the end of most or all access to regular citizens and would be preserved for the elite because they would care for it and make sure it is used by them exclusively as they know better than we how to manage the land and the adjacent lands as well.
They will use this against self sufficient people and outdoors men/women…
I believe they want to use the migration corridors and grazing/breeding grounds, to control people and seize property and strip us of Civil Liberty…
Look at the two items hidden in this article on “conserving fish and wildlife”…
They’re just connecting the strings/dots, for now, so they can pull their traps on us…
They have been doing these things since Obama was in Illinois… created laws to set aside education, culture, and art spaces to connect with the green spaces, recreation, parks, etc….
Think of it as a path for indoctrination!
You can not trust this man, or his backers.
I can think of no reason to vote for Biden, or any of today’s Democrats!
The concerns are understandable, but we could be locked out of BLM land as it is.
In my view the idea of wildlife corridors is a good one.
And it could be done without spending a penny of taxpayer money. Here’s how.
Though highly unlikely to actually happen, the government could sell or swap
public land it already owns that is not as conservation worthy to connect gaps in the corridor.
If it is open for recreation as promised, the fringe BLM property along the corridors
should bring in quite a few sheckles. Win win.
But the gov’ment seems to always want to acquire land and never sell any.
That’s the 64K dollars question. Where is the land for the “corridors” coming from. The gov’t already “manages” millions of acres of land that does not belong to them and from what I’ve read does not do that very well. It seems to me that this is a land grab….again.
Just wait until they put more wolves and grizzlies in your mule deer lands under their control which will reduce the herd numbers even more and eliminate hunting since of course they will need to be “protected”.
There will also not be any ammunition to hunt with.
In the end, this is going to be used to grab privately owned land. Pure & simple. This administration doesn’t care about mule deer, wildlife, migration patterns, farms, or you and me. It cares about power and utilizing any means necessary. If they can fool small people into believing “they care” that’ll just help grease the wheels.
Conserving 30% of America’s land and water will mean restricted access and federal regulations that will shutdown these areas to easy public access and use.
The problem is that “conservation” for the elites means in reality that the rest of us are not welcome.
What are they wanting to take away from us they don’t give away anything with out taking more monies or want more of our constutional rights or God given rights I personally don’t trust a single one of them