Our mission and our goals have grown with the altering political landscape. Today, we’ve won the 2020 and 2022 elections and hold half of Congress and the presidency.
Now the real work begins.

HERE’S THE PLAN
REWILD THE WEST

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

We propose reallocating a fraction of current federal subsidies, just 1/4 of 1% of the total US annual budget, annually for seven years and by doing so we can accomplish the following.

Right about now, you might be thinking, “Impossible”. Well, it’s not. Read on.

4) Our five target subsidies are:

• (A) Factory farming and meat industry subsidies, roughly $38 billion annually;

• (B) Feed grain subsidies, roughly $28.5 billion annually;

• (C) Fuel grain subsidies, roughly $30 billion annually;

• (D) Timber subsidies: roughly $2 billion annually;

• (E) Fuel and minerals extraction subsidies, roughly $52 billion annually. Also

• (F) Streamline oversight. We roll the following agencies into the US NPS over four years and gradually eliminate their budgets by 25% annually: BLM budget, $1.2 billion; US Forest Service budget, $5.2 billion. (Addendum) FWS $2.8 billion.
  

All together, this equals $156.9 billion in target subsidies to be reallocated at 10% annually

This number represents roughly 1/4 of just 1% of of the us federal budget. money taxpayers are already spending in subsidies to some of the worlds worst polluters and richest corporations.

We outline below a series of policy changes and new laws that together with those REALLOCATED funds serve to amplify climate mitigation spending. We’re not just decreasing emissions but increasing carbon storage by recovering our natural systems and we’re removing LOBBYING dollars from the worst of the polluters by reallocating their subsidies.

For instance, turn the US Forest service into the US reforest service, get cattle off public land reallocate todays welfare ranching subsidies. Use the dollars previously CONTRIBUTING to the crisis to replant both the PRAIRIES natural grasses and forests of the west. make those dollars previously doing so much harm, now contribute to the most immediate climate solutions.


Year One 

5) Proposed budget/subsidy reallocation for year one: $15.7 billion.

6) Our proposed rule changes for Year One are:

• (A) A ban on all logging on public lands other than fire mitigation,

• (B) A ban on all new mining, extraction infrastructure and exploration permits on public lands, the immediate removal of all exploration equipment from public lands, and retire all existing mining and extraction permits that have yet to be developed;

• (C) A ban on all new water projects on public lands and review the removal of dams no longer used, no longer serviceable, or no longer absolutely necessary to public health and safety;

• (D) Over a four year transition time federalize all public lands use oversight under one US NPS board of trustees and return all lands held in trust by states back into public lands status. Remove states control of hunting permits and abolish states wildlife commissions. Enact a ban on all but long rifle subsistence hunting on public lands with tags issued through lottery as in previous years but now based on economic need with the total number of tags issued not to exceed the previous year;

• (E) A total ban on all forms of trapping, poisoning, sport or trophy hunting;

• (F) A ban on hunting of all predators on public lands by any agency, state, or individual;

• (G) The immediate retirement of all 1.9 million grazing unit permits on public lands;

• (H) Begin removal of all abandoned barbed wire on public lands;

• (I) The immediate removal of all livestock- handling equipment from public lands;

• (J) A ban on all non essential off-road mechanized travel on public lands;

• (K) An increase in poaching penalties, first offense to include fines no less that 25% of the offender’s total yearly income and a lifetime firearms ban. Second and subsequent offenses to include no less than 7 years imprisonment plus no less than 50% of the offenders total yearly income.
  

  Our proposed organizational changes for Year One:

  
  We propose a four year plan to convert the US Forest Service into the US NPS- Reforest service. and to eliminate the Bureau of Land Management, DOI Fish & Wildlife Services and USDA Wildlife services, as well as the Department of the Interior, keeping only the USNPS. And if four years halt the subsidized destruction of our public lands. Dismantling or transferring those agencies corporate coordination divisions and transfer their enforcement personnel to the National Park Service. We will begin logistics and planning for this transition in Year One or our plan. We immediately remove Wildlife Services from the Department of Agriculture and place the agency and it’s budget under the control of the NPS. The agency will immediately halt all operations that don’t directly involve airline safety or invasive species management. Year one we begin organizing efforts to control invasive species in all US states and territories. All public and state trust lands will eventually be transferred to the jurisdiction of the NPS and operated under the organic act mandate. Hunting on federally-owned public lands will no longer be under state control and will be administered and regulated by a new division under the NPS jurisdiction. Hunting will not be based on a lottery system, but instead based on economic need, i.e., subsistence hunting only. In the first year limited tags for subsistence hunting will be awarded through a lottery system for those 21 years and older who qualify economically and hold a valid hunter safety card from the previous year. No additional hunter safety cards will be awarded in Year One. First nations are excluded from the new rule changes except for the mechanized travel restrictions on public lands. Mechanized travel on public lands will be restricted to essential use only allowing wildlife a chance to recover.

8) Our proposed projects for Year One:

• (A) We convert the logging industry on public lands into the reforestation industry with a goal of multiplying that workforce by a factor of five and adding millions of acres to reforestation efforts.

• (B) We begin reforestation logistics by building nurseries where seedlings sufficient to plant up to 20 million acres annually can be grown: $4 billion.

• (C) We begin retooling the logging industry to increase reforestation capacity by a commensurate amount: $3 billion.

• (D) We employ outfitters to equip in situ Youth Conservation Corps (YCC) programs. Hire scientists and teachers to instruct the kids in these outdoor activities. Begin the removal of all 600,000 miles of abandoned barbed wire on public lands and begin to build wildlife safe fencing along highways crossing public lands: $4 billion

• (E) We initiate surveys and hold college-level architectural design contests building public support for 1,500 wildlife overpasses.

• (F) We begin to procure materials, negotiate contracts, and build 1,500 wildlife overpasses: $3.5 billion.

• (G) We begin to procure materials and negotiate contracts to replace 3.2 trillion kWh of fossil fuel energy with clean, green, renewable municipal based energy systems. These municipal power nodes will not only energize cities towns and small communities, but also power a new induction charging roadway system, which will become the new power grid. We abandon and recycle the old antiquated overhead high tension power transmission system: $1 billion. Working from the most remote communities along interstate highways in towards the cities, we can eliminate expensive capitol costs to energy users and begin dismantling the old grid from its extremities inward.

YEAR TWO

9) Proposed budget/subsidy reallocation for year two: $31.4 billion.

10) Proposed rule changes in Year Two:

• (A) We determine the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag through the use of scientific counts of wildlife populations to determine the number of tags to be issued and by using tax returns to determine the economic need to subsistence hunt. First Nations people will be exempt from the hunting regulations. We also consult with First Nations people to coordinate efforts to recover traditional wildlife population densities.

• (B) The limited tags shall be issued free to those who qualify and who complete the newly designed USAR hunter safety training course.

• (C) No state issued tags shall be valid on public lands.

• (D) No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted.

• (E) No one under the age of 21 shall receive a tag.

• (F) The National Park Service shall regulate federally-owned public lands and shall coordinate the effort with First Nations engaging a transition team of employees transferred from both BLM and USFS.

11) Our projects for Year Two:

• (A) Ramp up reforestation to 20 million acres (or best effort) annually at a cost of $450 per acre, transition BLM and USFS into NPS: total $10 billion.

• (B) Continue YCC programs for removing barbed wire and building wildlife safe fences along highways.

• (C) Begin redesign of the YCC project into a K-12 STEM based boarding school system: $3 billion.

• (D) Complete construction of Year One’s first 1,500 wildlife overpasses ,and begin the same number in Year Two (or best effort) to be completed in Year Three: $7.5 billion.

• (E) Begin resurfacing 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities: 21K miles, $8 billion.

Today, the United States uses 3.9 trillion kWh annually, and 17% of that is already from renewable sources. Our budget roadmap replaces 3.2 trillion kWh fossil-fuel-based energy with clean, green energy in 4 1/2 years. Organization, planning, procurement, and initial construction for year two: $2.5 billion.

YEAR THREE

12) Proposed subsidy reallocation for Year Three: $47.1 billion.

13) Proposed rule changes in Year Three:

• (A) A modification in the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tags through the use of IRS records and scientific counts of wildlife populations to determine the total number of permits available. The limited tags shall be issued free to those who qualify and who complete the newly-designed USAR hunter safety training course. Coordinate wildlife recovery efforts with First Nations.

• (B) No state-issued tags shall be valid on federally-owned public lands. The number of tags issued will not exceed that issued in the previous year.

• (C) No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted.

• (D) No one under the age of 21 may receive a tag.

• (E) National Park Service shall regulate all hunting on federally-owned public lands and shall work with a transition team of employees transferred from BLM and USFS.

• (F) Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders.

14) Our proposed projects for Year Three:

• (A) Ramp up reforestation by another 10 million acres to 30 million acres annually and continue at that level for the next 10 years with the goal of 300 million acres of reforested and reclaimed cropland. Transition BLM and USFS into NPS. The estimated cost of reforestation planting is $450 per acre, total $15 billion.

• (B) Continue YCC programs for removing barbed wire and building wildlife safe fences along highways: $3 billion.

• (C) Complete construction of Year Two’s 1,500 wildlife overpasses and begin the same number in Year Three to be completed in Year Four: $7.5 billion.

• (D) Begin building international K-12 STEM based boarding schools embedded in wild lands settings where foreign and domestic parents and kids can stay, get educated, and get parents jobs in these remote locations, with the goal in mind of a wild lands-embedded system of international school camps. Once projects are completed, the camps will have some limited capability to be self-sufficient, similar to the Kibbutz system in Israel: $2 billion.

• (E) Continue resurfacing the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities: 21K miles, $8 billion.

• (F) Begin to add solar, wind, geothermal, and tidal energy fields along highways in rural areas to charge the induction system: +0.178 trillion kWh, $8.5 billion.

YEAR FOUR

15) Proposed subsidy reallocation for Year Four: $62.8 billion.

16) Proposed rule changes for Year Four:

• (A) Complete eliminating the US Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management, dismantling their corporate coordination divisions and finalize transferring their enforcement personnel to the National Park Service. Begin logistics and planning for this in Year One.

• (B) All public lands will eventually be transferred to the jurisdiction of the NPS and operated under the organic act mandate with the exception of hunting on federally-owned public lands, which will no longer be under state control, and will be administered and regulated by a new division under the NPS jurisdiction in cooperation with the First Nations.

• (C) Alter the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag through the use of scientific counts of wildlife populations The limited tags shall be issued free to those who qualify and who complete the newly-designed USAR hunter safety training course.

• (D) No state-issued tags shall be valid on federally-owned public lands. The number of tags issued will not exceed that issued in the previous year.

• (E) No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted and no one under the age of 21 may receive a tag.

• (F) National Park Service shall regulate all hunting on federally-owned public lands and shall work with a transition team of employees transferred from both BLM and USFS.

• (G) Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders.

17) Our proposed projects for Year Four:

• (A)Reforestation of 30 million acres: $15 billion.

• (B) Continue YCC programs removing barbed wire and building wildlife safe fences along highways: $3 billion.

• (C) Complete construction of Year Three’s 1,500 wildlife overpasses and begin the same number in Year Four to be completed in Year Five: $7.5 billion.

• (D) Continue building and begin logistics for enrollment in the international K-12 STEM based international boarding schools embedded in wild lands settings: $2 billion.

• (E) Continue resurfacing the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities: 42K miles, $17 billion.

• (F) Continue installing solar fields, wind, geothermal, and tidal systems.+0.433 trillion kWh, $19.5 billion.

• (G) Estimated revenues from electricity generated: $79.4 billion (total of 0.611 trillion kWh production).

YEAR FIVE

18) Proposed subsidy reallocation for Year Five: $78.5 billion.

19) Proposed total budget for Year Five: $111.2billion.

20) Expected revenues from green energy at13c pr/kWh  $79.4billion. We propose adding 50% or $39.7 billion of the revenues from new solar to the Year Five budget and returning 50% or $39.7 billion to the taxpayers or for other purposes.

21) Proposed rule changes for Year Five:

• (A) Alter the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag through the use of scientific counts of wildlife populations. The limited tags shall be issued free to those who qualify and who complete the newly-designed USAR hunter safety training course. Coordinate with First Nations in perpetuity who will have autonomy in hunting public lands except for the ban on mechanized travel.

• (B) No state-issued tags shall be valid on federally-owned public lands.

• (C) The number of tags issued shall be recalculated based on USNPS estimates of increasing wildlife population densities.

• (D) No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted. (5) No one under the age of 21 may receive a tag.

• (E) National Park Service shall regulate all hunting on federally-owned public lands and shall work with a transition team of employees transferred from both BLM and USFS.

• (F) Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders.

22) Our proposed projects for Year Five:

• (A) Reforestation of 30 million acres: $15 billion.

• (B) Continue YCC programs removing barbed wire and building wildlife safe fences along highways: $3 billion.

• (C) Complete construction of Year Four’s 1,500 wildlife overpasses and begin the same number in Year Five to be completed in Year Six: $15 billion.

• (D) Continue building and begin enrolment international K-12 STEM based international boarding schools embedded in wild lands settings: $2 billion.

• (E) Continue resurfacing the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities: 42K miles, $17 billion.

• (F) Continue installing solar fields, wind, geothermal, and tidal systems. +1.47 trillion kWh: $65.2 billion.                                            

YEAR SIX

23) Proposed subsidy reallocation for Year Six: $94.2 billion.

24) Proposed total budget for Year Six: $126.4billion.

25) Revenues from green energy at 13c pr/kWh $270.5billion. We propose adding 12% or $32.2 billion of the revenues from new solar to the Year Six budget, and returning 88% or $238.4 billion to the tax payer or for other purposes.

25) Proposed rule changes for Year Six:

• (A) Alter the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag through the use of scientific counts of wildlife populations. The limited tags shall be issued free to those who qualify and who complete the newly-designed USAR hunter safety training course.

• (B) No state-issued tags shall be valid on federally-owned public lands.

• (C) The number of tags issued shall be recalculated based on USNPS estimates of increasing wildlife population densities.

• (D) No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted. (5) No one under the age of 21 may receive a tag.

• (E) National Park Service shall regulate all hunting on federally-owned public lands and shall work with a transition team of employees transferred from the former BLM and USFS.

• (F) Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders.

26) Our proposed projects for Year Six:

• (A) Reforestation of 30 million acres: $15 billion.

• (B) Continue YCC programs removing barbed wire and building wildlife safe fences along highways: $3 billion.

• (C) Complete construction of Year Five’s 1,500 wildlife overpasses and begin the same number in Year Six to be completed in Year Seven: $15 billion.

• (D) Continue building and begin operating international K-12 STEM based international boarding schools embedded in wild lands settings: $10 billion.

• (E) Finish resurfacing the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities: 42K miles, $17 billion.

• (F) Continue installing solar fields, wind, geothermal, and tidal systems. +1.47 trillion kWh :$65.2 billion.
  

YEAR SEVEN

27) Our proposed subsidy reallocation for Year Seven: $109.9 billion.

28) Proposed total budget for Year Seven: $133billion. 

30) Revenues from green energy at13c pr/kWh: $461.63billion. We propose adding $23.1 billion of the revenues from new solar to the Year Seven subsidies reallocation and returning $438.53 billion to the taxpayers or for other purposes.

31) Proposed rule changes for Year Seven:

• (A) Increase the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag to be determined through the use of scientific counts of wildlife populations. The limited tags shall be issued free to those who qualify and who complete the newly-designed USAR hunter safety training course.

• (B) No state-issued tags shall be valid on federally-owned public lands.

• (C) The number of tags issued shall be recalculated based on USNPS estimates of increasing wildlife population densities.

• (D) No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted.

• (E) No one under the age of 21 may receive a tag.

• (F) National Park Service shall regulate all hunting on federally-owned public lands. (7) Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders.

32) Our proposed projects for Year Seven:

• (A)Reforestation of 30 million acres: $15 billion.

• (B) Continue YCC programs maintaining wildlife safe fences along highways: $3 billion.

• (C) Perform maintenance on wildlife overpasses: $5 billion.

• (D) Continue building and operating the K12 STEM based international boarding schools embedded in wild lands settings and begin tuition-free higher education programs: $50 billion, (that’s the number the Sanders Plan proposes).

• (E) Maintain the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities: $10 billion.

• (F) Complete and maintain solar fields, wind, geothermal, and tidal systems: $50 billion.

YEAR EIGHT

33) Our proposed subsidy reallocation for Year Eight is $0.

34) We propose in Year Eight to eliminate from the federal budget and return to the taxpayers $156.9 billion in environmentally harmful taxpayer subsidies.

35) Proposed total budget for Year Eight: $133 billion.

36) Revenues from green energy at 13c kWh $461.63billion. We propose adding $133 billion of the revenues from new solar to the Year Eight budget and returning $485.5 billion to the taxpayers or for other purposes.

33) Proposed rule changes for Year Eight:

• (A) Increase the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag to be determined through the use of scientific counts of wildlife populations rule continues indefinitely. The limited tags shall be issued free to those who qualify and who complete the newly designed USAR hunter safety training course.

• (B) No state-issued tags shall be valid on federally-owned public lands.

• (C) The number of tags issued shall be recalculated based on USNPS estimates of increasing wildlife population densities.

• (D) No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted rule to continue indefinately

• (E) No one under the age of 21 may receive a tag rule to continue indefinately

• (F) National Park Service shall regulate all hunting on federally owned public lands rule to continue indefinitely

• (7) Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders rule to continue indefinitely

34) Our proposed projects for year eight

• (A)Reforestation of 30 million acres or as much as is deemed to maintain forest acreage at it’s recovered levels of 1.2 billion acres: $15 billion annually continues indefinitely

• (B) Continue YCC programs maintaining wildlife safe fences along highways, and working with NPS to help build public access and amenities on public lands: $3 billion annually continues indefinetly.

• (C) Perform maintenance on wildlife overpasses: $5 billion annually continues indefinetly.

• (D) Continue building international K12 STEM based international boarding schools embedded in wild lands settings and begin tuition-free higher education programs: $50 billion annually continues indefinetly, (that’s the number the Sanders Plan proposes).

• (E) Maintain the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities: $10 billion annually continues indefinetly.

• (F) Complete and maintain solar fields, wind, geothermal, and tidal systems: $50 billion annually continues indefinetly.

IN SUMMARY

By reallocating just 3/10 of 1% of federal subsidies annually for seven years, we can  accomplish the following:

A) Complete 160K miles of induction charging highways, eliminating roughly 60% of our fossil fuels use. This means you never have to stop for or pay for fuel again.

B) Complete 3.2 trillion kWh in publicly-owned renewable energy production, eliminating roughly 20% of our fossil fuels use and generating a half trillion dollars annual revenue stream.

C) Complete 150+ million acres of new forested areas, increasing the forest carbon sink by 50%.

D) Complete 6,000 wildlife overpasses, reducing wildlife vehicle collisions.

E) Provide $50 billion annually in tuition free education.

F) Return $156.9 billion in taxpayer subsidies to the taxpayers. 

G) Provide $461 billion annual revenue stream in publicly-owned renewable energy production.

H) Remove 600K miles of abandoned barbed wire on public land.

I) Remove all domestic livestock from public lands.

J) Eliminate the Bureau of Land Management and the US Forest Service.

K) Eliminate and recover up to 80% of crop lands under production.

L) Double the wildlife populations on public lands.

M) Double the number of hunting permits to subsistence hunters.

N) Create a total value of new renewable energy at Ḉ13 per kWh $461 billion.

O) Create a decentralized, compartmentalized, renewable energy grid capable of expanding or contracting with ease to meet fluctuating demand.

Notes

34) Renewables: Solar fields should be located in expanded highway easements with decentralized support systems located nearby and tie into the existing high tension grid system. Wind turbines should be VAWT based to reduce the height, reduce bird losses and make maintenance less costly. Geothermal should be used in areas where wind and solar aren’t as advantageous. Tidal should only be used where the previous three are impractical. 

35) Retiring public lands grazing permits should be done over the first three years and include all livestock, all fencing, all handling equipment, as well as the removal of all non-historical supporting buildings, corrals, shutes, etc. 

36) Eliminating BLM and USFS Should be done fairly quickly over the first two or three years at most. The lease and sales divisions are to be kept on long enough to assist in retiring all logging, oil gas and extraction contracts other than fire mitigation efforts and then transferred to positions in the development of new hunting regulations and infrastructure within the USNPS. All other personnel shall be reassigned to the NPS for all purposes required. 

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37) We hit the Anti Parks Caucus members hard during the 2018 election cycle. We hit them again in 2020.
Now the real work begins.

We’re drawing a line right here, right now, for future generations.