In this article by David Gessner, December 17, 2019, A Path Forward for Connecting Public Lands With Wildlife Corridors", he describes his plane ride over Colorado, Montana, and Wyoming. He commends Yellowstone to Yukon (Y2Y) founder Harvey Locke, for his vision to "connect the world’s first national park, Yellowstone" clear into the Yukon just for the purpose of taking one half million square miles of land where wildlife could "live and freely migrate". His description of this land he flew over is that it is "injured, battered, threatened". Nothing about his land fits his description.
But it is one statement that is disturbing, "Y2Y now includes 11 national parks, national forests, wildlife refuges, provincial parks, wilderness lands, and increasingly, private lands." It is almost as if he is saying that Y2Y is its own territory, state, or providence. These parks, forests, land, and private lands are not included in any imaginary Y2Y boundary. Those lands belong to states, private owners, and national lands are only "managed" by the federal government, not owned. This article is a good clue into environmentalist thinking. There are no jurisdictional boundaries, no sovereignty, and a heavy misconception that Y2Y has some ownership of everything within its fabricated boundary.
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