Everyone wants to preserve our environment, but we should want to preserve our rights as well.

The government and the environmental community have become experts at turning private landowners and leaseholders into "willing sellers," forcing them to become "willing" by using a vast array of environmental laws and regulations. Government has especially abused the Endangered Species Act to so regulate private lands and property that private landowners cannot use their property, cannot earn a living from their lands, and can find no one who will purchase their lands. Banks find no collateral value in the lands because they are so encumbered by environmental regulations that all they can do is to sell or give them up to the government. There is example after example of such horror stories across the American landscape. Lives are destroyed as a result. This is not what "willing" means. (more)