The Conservation Finance Network ((CFN) "advances land and resource conservation by expanding the use of innovative and effective funding and financing strategies" and supports "a growing network of public, private and nonprofit professionals through practitioner convenings, intensive trainings, and information dissemination to increase the financial resources deployed for conservation." This initiative "grew out of a pilot workshop envisioned at Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in 2006 and held at Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies in 2007."
Not only do non-governmental organizations (NGO) contribute and support the CFN, your tax dollar also contributes from the US Forest Service, US Department of Defense, and US Department of Agriculture. Under the Menu there is a Topics category that brings up all of the issues they are involved in from Forests to Public Policy. It may be that they have the ability to fund any conservation activity they want, regardless of local citizen input.
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The Western Governors Association (WGA) recently held their 2019 Annual Meeting in Vail, Colorado, in which Governor Little was a participant. One of the activities included the relaunching of the Western Governors' Foundation which "is to leverage Western Governors’ influence to raise and deploy resources that collectively impact issues of regional importance", essentially further diminishing Idaho state sovereignty. You gotta love this foundation description, "leverage collective influence". Sovereignty has now been replaced with collectivism and redistribution of money through regional "philanthropy". Another new initiative will be the "Reimagining of the Rural West" that "will examine challenges and opportunities in rural economic development, infrastructure and quality of life, identify best practices, and recommend policies to support vibrant rural communities in the West." The three major "pillars" are opportunity for policies to leverage strengths in energy, agriculture, and tourism; connectivity for broadband and other infrastructure challenges; and lastly community to ensure rural areas have access to all of the elements of a strong community, including healthcare, affordable housing, quality education, and local leadership. A survey of 115 people was used to identify these priorities. Since when does a group of governors decide how we manage our communities? Access to local leadership? What does that mean? But lastly, the most concerning subject the WGA revealed was a resolution on wildlife migration corridors and habitat. WGA has bought the non-governmental organization (NGO) mantra that "...migratory routes...can be impeded, degraded or eliminated by land or resource development", that wildlife overpasses are the only solution, and they should work with the federal government and NGOs to promote the creation of corridors. Idaho is and will continue to be targeted for creation of wildlife corridors from the federal government, NGOs, state government, foundation funding, and a regional collection of governors. At some point Idahoans will have to take a stand and demand that our sovereignty is taken back and it will be Idahoans that make decisions for our state, that no other state or group has any say in those decisions, that we do not believe in collectivism, and do not want our tax dollar funding other states. That point in time is now, there is no longer any time to wait.
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