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22. THE AGENDA 21 WILDLANDS PROJECT

Here’s the essence of the environmental dimension of AGENDA 21 as
stated by Dave Foreman, a previous Sierra Club board member and
founder of the AGENDA 21 Wildlands Project in 1992:
“We must make this place an insecure and inhospitable place for
Capitalists and their projects – we must reclaim the roads and plowed
lands, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled
rivers and return to wilderness tens of millions of acres or presently
settled land.”

http://www.newswithviews.com/DeWeese/tom194.htm
http://www.earthfirst.org
http://www.sierraclub.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Foreman

Foreman also stated: “My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million
worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with its full complement of
species, returning throughout the world.”
http://www.targetofopportunity.com/earth_first.htm
http://www.brontaylor.com/environmental_articles/pdf/Taylor--Tributaries.pdf
http://www.religionandnature.com/ern/sample/Taylor--EF!andELF.pdf

In 1994 half of America’s lesser used territory throughout all the lower 49 states was
nearly designated off limits to human use by Senate ratification of the Convention on Biological
Diversity (Biodiversity Treaty). On June 29, 1994, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by a
shocking margin of 16 to 3, approved that the treaty be submitted to a Senate vote.

Senate Majority Leader Mitchell, one hour before the scheduled cloture vote, withdrew it. “It was an
astonishing defeat for the administration and its army of environmental organizations which had
carefully orchestrated what it thought was certain ratification….[The treaty] was first proposed by the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in 1981.

The land use policies required by the treaty were also expressed in dozens of other UN documents and
at other UN conferences, and incorporated into the agendas of NGOs for implementation through
programs and legislation at the local, state, and federal level long before the Treaty was ever presented
to the world….On July 19, Dr. Michael Coffman, a Director of Maine Conservation Rights Institute,
and a regional director for the Alliance for America, was in Washington talking to Senator Mitchell's
staff and to Senator Dole's staff, trying to convince them that the Treaty would have the effect of
making the "Wildlands Project," the objective of the Treaty's implementation….

Throughout the night of August 3, a fax drafted by Coffman was distributed through the Alliance for
America Network to 4400 organizations and individuals calling for support in opposition to the
Treaty…As Congress reconvened, the Environmental Conservation Organization mailed letters to
1050 Mayors, urging them to oppose the Treaty. On September 19, every Senator received ECO's letter
opposing the Treaty, co-signed by 293 organizations….

The following day, Coffman was again in Senator Mitchell's office explaining that the Treaty was the
embodiment of the Wildlands Project and that the "smoking-gun" evidence was contained in
the Global Biodiversity Assessment (GBA)” (Even though major newspapers were denying the
existence of the GBA!). “Coffman prepared color maps illustrating the impact of the Treaty on the
northeast, including Mitchell's state. The maps were overnighted to Mitchell's office, and to the
Republican Policy Committee and arrived the morning of September 30. Senate staff enlarged the
maps into 4-foot by 6-foot posters, along with enlargements of selected text from the GBA.