Great Outdoors Initiative

This was brought to my attention today by my former employer. I sent an email to Mayberry over at Keep It Simple Survival in the hopes that he might help get the word out. Below is the email I sent him:

"Mayb,
I left a response to your last blog post and should have just emailed you with it – duh! It was about the Great Outdoors Initiative. I sign my comments as Lisa in Bammer because I live in Alabama. My former employer owns a vast amount of land in Marion county along the Cahaba river. The proposal under this plan will take his land and his only option will be to let the government have it or give them the rights to it. If he gives them the rights to it, he can no longer use it as he sees fit. That means no hunting, fishing, etc. He, nor any of the other land owners were notified of this. His wife was at the library and happened to see a map laying out that had the areas marked with different colors for the different phases of the plan. This man is getting on in years and purchased this land for his retirement so he and his sons, who are both disabled, could have a place to live, farm, hunt, fish and whatever else they wanted to do. Now the HMFIC of this country is trying to see to it that his dreams are sacrificed for the greater good of the wild animals in that area and so that people who live in the city can go out in the woods to see what nature looks like.
This has gotten me pretty riled up and not just because it’s someone I know. When will people wake up and realize that this crap is happening everywhere and they or their loved ones could be next on that list! Sorry for the rant and the long email but I wanted to make sure you saw this and maybe could possibly help get the word out. I read your blog every day several times a day just to make sure I don’t miss anything. Keep up the good work."

This, my friends is a sad state of affairs. You may say, "this doesn't directly affect me so I have no opinion." (Sounds a lot like Glen Beck about same sex marriage!) It may not directly affect you now but what happens when it's not an anonymous retired family in Podunk,AL? What happens when it's you, your parents, your family?


Please form your own opinion and don't take my word for it. I've included a link below with some of the information. Don't even take that as all the information out there about it. Google it yourself and read every piece of information about it. Then decide what you're going to do.
a. be alarmed by it, but get caught up in soemthing else in two minutes and forget it
b. take the Glen Beck attitude
c. give this information to everyone you know and start calling your congressmen and representatives at every level.

This is just what's going on in Alabama people. What's happening in your state?

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/08/14/great-outdoors-initiative-a-federal-land-grab/