Dear Kansas Legislators, Coming up on October 18th(tentative date), there is a special committee meeting to discuss the 30×30 Biden executive order that so many Kansas Land owners are opposed to. This executive order seeks to control 30% of the land and water in the USA. The Department of Interior claim that the 30×30 aka (American the Beautiful) is voluntary but with the behavior of the current administration, we (I and thousands of people I have been communicating with) feel this is nothing more than government overreach at best and tyranny at worst. We do not want this in Kansas!
When looking at the 30×30 ideology, we find that it comes from the Center for American Progress which is a George Soros foundation funded organization and the 30×30 is not based upon scientific facts but by opinion papers that are written by those who believe in Socialism and shun Capitalism. The lands that can be included in the 30% includes; national parks, wilderness areas, permanent conservation easements, state parks, national wildlife refuges, national monuments or other protected areas. The other protected areas are of grave concern as CRP land is often looked at as a protected area and when you look at National Heritage Areas (NHAs), they are protected areas! Kansas currently has one NHA; Freedoms Frontier National Heritage Area (FFNHA) and a proposed Kansas Nebraska Heritage Area Partnership (KNHAP) in which Kim Wilson PhD, professor at the University of Nebraska is hellbent on pushing through. My first question is, why do they need 22 million more acres in an NHA when they already have 19 million in FFNHA? Why do they need FORTY ONE MILLION ACRES to fund these TINY little supposed historical/economic entities in Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri? Of the 29 Kansas counties in FFNHA, ONLY DOUGLAS county Kansas BENEFITTED FINANCIALLY, the rest of the counties who were, if they were informed about the NHA were suppose to realize economic development and tourism when in fact most LOST population and saw no gains either way.
Why do I mention the NHAs? Simple, because the Department of Interior, through the National Parks Service administers this program. The intrusive behaviors of NGO (Non-government organizations) have in other NHAs, put restrictions on what can be done in designated areas. To make matters even more nefarious, these NGOs are not subject to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and we get pertinent information needed to know when they are pulling something on the land owners of a designated area. This is a resemblance of the feudal system of Britain prior to the Revolutionary war, where Lords were over the people. This NGO situation is not only unacceptable but repugnant in the eyes of land owners and those in agriculture.
Then we also have the Chisholm and Western trails that have been “nominated” for lack of better words by Senator Jerry Moran and Representative Ron Estes, who want to designate these trail with a heritage designation, which would add too the number of acres affected by designations that COULD throw them into the 30×30 Land Grab.
The PEOPLE of Kansas do not need any further overreach from the federal government and we hope that not only will you say NO to the 30×30 but also NO to the KNHAP & FFNHA(which is up for reallocation this fall). We the PEOPLE want the State of Kansas to put their foot down and deny the federal government overreach! We also want the Kansas Legislature to send strong wording to Senator Jerry Moran, Senator Roger Marshall and all of the Kansas Representatives that we DO NOT APPROVE OF the Department of Interior being able to designate NHAs with out Congressional approval. To this, we explain that Senate Bill 1942 will re-allocate funding for FFNHA and take the approval for any NHA out of the hands of Congress and give it to the Department of Interior and National Parks Service. We do not need bureaucracies telling us what to do, when WE THE PEOPLE ARE THE BOSS OF ALL ELECTED OFFICIALS FROM CITY UP TO FEDERAL LEVELS. Hear us now, or find the ballots at election time, going to someone other than yourselves.
Educated Cowpuncher 