Why Are We Doing It?
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TrademarkAmerica.org |
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CitizensForAConstitutionalRepublic.com |
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AmericanStewards.us |
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Our guests: Fred Kelly Grant &
Sylvia Milligan |
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● Grant
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President of
"American Stewards"
(Protecting People
and Property)
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 Fred
Grant attained his B.A. from the College of Idaho in 1958, majoring
in History; with specialization in Constitutional History and Law.
He then attended the University of Chicago School of Law. He served
as Law Clerk to Chief Judge Brune, in the Maryland Court of Appeals.
He first worked as an associate at Lord, Bissell, and Brook; a
Chicago law firm representing Lloyd's of London. He continued to
practice law in the District of Maryland, where he was an Assistant
United States Attorney. He later became Assistant State Attorney of
Baltimore, and then Chief of the Organized Crime Unit, State's
Attorney of Baltimore. He spent his remaining time in Baltimore
involved in criminal defense. |
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Grant later moved with his family back to Nampa Idaho where he and
his wife were both raised. He accepted an appointment by Idaho’s
Governor as a liaison with the federal agencies, and eventually
served two of Idaho’s Governors in various roles. He has been a
hearing officer in zoning issues for over 30 years and has helped
cities and counties write land use plans protecting property
rights. He works closely with Owyhee County, Idaho where he
developed the “Coordination Strategy” now being taught across the
nation as a way for local governments to have meaningful input into
the federal and state decision making process. |
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Grant has worked with Stewards of the Range since the early 1990’s
as a consultant and the Litigation Chairman. In 2006 he was elected
by the Board of Directors to serve as President. July 1, 2009
Stewards of the Range merged with the American Land Foundation
creating American Stewards of Liberty. Grant continues to serve as
President of the new organization. |
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Ref:
http://americanstewards.us/about-us/directors/fred-kelly-grant |
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What is
Coordination and Why Are We Doing It? |
The
“coordination process” as directed by Congress is simply that: a
process by which local government and federal agencies are to
meet in a government to government dialogue in order to attempt
to reach consistency between federal plans and actions and local
plans and policies. Congress has recognized that local
government has a position in planning and policy making that is
superior to that of the general public.
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The “father” of the Coordination
process is Fred Kelly Grant. |
How Coordination Plans Work
BY FRED KELLY GRANT
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Local governments
that have implemented “coordination” status with federal management
agencies are successfully fighting erosion of private property
rights in their communities. The “coordination” status is authorized
by almost every federal statute relating to management of land,
resource, and environment. All the local government has to do is
formally accept the congressional invitation to “coordinate,” and
federal agencies have no choice but to agree. |
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What is this
“coordination” factor, which elevates the involvement of local
government in federal planning and management actions? The
foundation for the concept is found in the Federal Land Policy
Management Act, i.e. commonly known as FLPMA. Section 1712 of Title
43 of the United States Code requires that the Bureau of Land
Management must coordinate its “land use inventory, planning, and
management actions” with any local government which has engaged in
land use planning for the federal lands managed by the federal
agencies. |
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Congress did not
leave the definition of the word “coordination” to chance, or to the
whim of the federal management agencies. Congress defined the word
by specifying the duties and responsibilities of the BLM regarding
local plans. The statute REQUIRES the following: |
- BLM must
keep apprised of local land use plans;
- BLM must
assure consideration is given to local plans when federal plans
are being developed;
- BLM must
attempt to resolve inconsistencies between federal and state
local plans;
- BLM must
provide “meaningful…involvement” of local government officials
in the development and revision of plans, guidelines and
regulations;
- The
Secretary must, finally, compare local and federal plans and
make sure they are consistent “to the maximum extent…consistent
with federal law.
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BLM regulations
set forth a very clear process by which the local government, which
has developed a plan is able to “coordinate” with the BLM, and this
process includes an elevation of the participation level of the
local government to a point of notice and “meaningful” participation
above and ahead of “public participation.” |
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Note that the
statute does not limit mandatory coordination to “counties,” but
rather extends it to “local government.” That language includes any
unit of local government, often identified as any separate tax
raising unit of government, i.e., school districts, road districts,
fire districts, irrigation districts, and cities and towns. So, in a
county where county commissioners or supervisors refuse to develop a
local plan for coordination status, any school board or other
tax-raising unit of government can gain coordinate status for
itself. The ideal goal for local government would be to develop a
plan by which the county, towns within the county, school districts,
irrigation districts, fire districts, could all participate in the
same coordination activities. |
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Other federal land
management agencies are also required to deal with local governments
on a higher plane than they do with the general public. This applies
to those which operate under and implement the National Forest
Management Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Water Act, Clean Air
Act, the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act, the National Preservation Act,
Soil Conservation district statutes, and the National Environmental
Policy Act. |
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For complete
article please visit:
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Citizens for a
Constitutional Republic |
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●
Sylvia Milligan |
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Founder and Chair |
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“ROC – Recreation
Outdoor Coalition” |
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Sylvia Milligan graduated from Chico State
University with honors. She is a retired school teacher
- spending 23 years teaching all facets of education.
Sylvia is actively involved in the following
organizations: |
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Chairperson, Recreation Outdoors
Coalition |
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Northern California Region Director |
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California-Nevada Snowmobile Association |
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Board Member: Sierra Access Coalition |
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Member: Shasta County Resource Advisory
Committee |
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Member: State Winter Recreation Committee |
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Alternate member – Recreation Resource
Advisory Committee |
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For the past 15 years, Sylvia has worked with the ten northern
California County Boards of Supervisors, elected officials, and both
state and federal agencies on recreational issues. She has
successfully lobbied for hundreds of thousands of dollars for the
federal agencies in northern California. She has also traveled to
Washington, DC and the State capitol a number of times to lobby for
recreational interests. |
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Since the beginning of the travel management planning process in
California’s national forests, Sylvia has spent hundreds of hours on
the ground looking at potential routes to provide sustainable OHV
opportunities for the public. She has worked with many individuals
and clubs explaining the process and looking at their routes to
present to the forests. |
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Sylvia has arranged countless hours of volunteer support for any
type of service needed ranging from trail maintenance to summer-long
traffic studies. |
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| Information from
Orlean Koehle about: |
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Eagle Forum of California
Tenth Annual State Conference
Sacramento California |
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June 17-18,
2011 |
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www.EagleForumOfCalifornia.com |
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