Defend Our Parks

The Alt Parks movement began as a single statement of truth. Today, what began as a fight to preserve our National Parks and Forests, has become a battle for the very soul of our nation.

We became the resistance #resist

Our mission grows with the altering political landscape. Today, we’ve won the election and hold majorities in congress, Now the real work begins

Here’s the plan
1) A number of organizations have floated great ideas on how to tackle climate change. Our plan to Rewild the West is a look at how to combine and finance those ideas and how to do so in a way that amplifies mitigation spending.W

2) Our plan involves a managed retreat from subsidizing the most harmful businesses operating on public lands. We propose reducing these subsidies 10% per year and reallocating those subsidy dollars into specific mitigation efforts. Thus beginning a new economic design spiral that embraces our public lands natural abundance.

3) Rewilding the West means taking from the problem and giving to the solution while not asking the taxpayers for a dime in additional taxes. By using a managed reduction of subsidies we’re allowing markets and businesses time to adjust and to compete in a free market sustainable capitalist system. Our plan is not a left or right wing purity test. We’re embracing a managed retreat from subsidizing what isn’t working, to pay for what will, without increasing our national budget or asking for a dime from the taxpayers.

4) Our target subsidies are. Factory farming and meat industry subsidies roughly $38 billion annually. Feed Grain subsidies roughly $28.5 billion annually. Fuel grain subsidies roughly $30 billion annually. Timber Subsidies $2 billion annually. Fuel and minerals extraction subsidies roughly $52 billion annually. As well as rolling the following agencies into the USNPS and gradually eliminating their budgets also by 10% annually $1.2 billion annual BLM budget. $5.2 billion annual US Forest Service budget. 

= $156.9 billion in target subsidies

Year one 

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

6) Our proposed rule changes for year one are. A total ban on all clear cut logging on public lands. A ban on all new mining, extraction infrastructure or exploration permits on public lands and the immediate removal of all exploration equipment from public lands. A ban on all new water projects on public lands.  A ban on all but long riffle subsistence hunting on public lands. A total ban on all forms of trapping and trophy hunting. A ban on hunting of all predators on public lands by any agency state or individual. The immediate retirement of all 1.9 million grazing unit permits on public lands. The removal of all abandoned barbed wire on public lands. The immediate removal of all livestock handling equipment from public lands. An increase in poaching penalties first offense to include fines no less that 50% of the offenders total monthly income and a lifetime firearms ban. Second offense to include no less than 5 years imprisonment.

7) We propose in by year four eliminating the US forest service and the Bureau of Land management dismantling their corporate coordination divisions and transferring their enforcement personnel to the National Park Service. Begin logistics and planning in year one. All public lands eventually being 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 and not based on a lottery system but instead based on economic need, IE subsistence hunting only. Limited tags to be awarded through a lottery system for those 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

8) Our proposed projects for year one are. 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. We begin reforestation logistics by building nurseries where seedlings sufficient to plant up to 20 million acres annually can be grown $4 billion. Begin retooling the logging industry to increase their reforestation capacity a commensurate amount $3 billion. We employ outfitters to equip in situ YCC programs in each applicable state to 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 We initiate surveys and hold college level architectural design contests building public support for 1500 wildlife overpasses. We begin to procure materials, contracts and begin 1500 wildlife overpasses $3.5 billion. Begin to procure materials and contracts to replace 3.2 trillion kWh with clean green renewable energy systems $1 billion

Year two

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

10) Proposed rule changes in year two. An increase in the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag. The number of limited tags shall be issued free to those qualifying and who complete the newly designed USAR hunter safety training course. The number of tags shall not exceed what was issued in the previous year. No state issued tags shall be valid on public lands. No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted and no one under the age of 21 receive a tag. 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.

11) Our projects for year two are. Ramp up reforestation to 20 million acres annually at a cost of $450 per acre total $10 billion. Continue YCC programs removing barbed wire and building wildlife safe fences along highways. Begin redesign of the project into an in situation limited K12 STEM based boarding school system $3 billion. Complete construction of year one’s first 1500 wildlife overpasses and begin the same number in year two to be completed in year three $7.5 billion. Begin resurfacing the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities 21K miles $8 billion. Today the US uses 3.9 trillion kWh, 17% of that is already from renewable sources. Our budget roadmap replaces 3.2 trillion kWh clean green energy in 4 1/2 years. Organization, planning, procurement and begin construction $2.5 billion

Year three 

12) Proposed subsidy reallocation for year three $47.1 billion

13) Proposed rule changes year three An increase in the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag. The number of limited tags shall be issued free to those qualifying and who complete the newly designed USAR hunter safety training course. 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. No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted and no one under the age of 21 may receive a tag. 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. Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders. 

14) Our proposed projects for year three, ramp up reforestation another 10 million acres to 30 million acres annually and continue at that level for the following 10 years with the goal of 300 million acres of reforested and reclaimed cropland. At a cost of $450 per acre total $15 billion. Continue YCC programs removing barbed wire and building wildlife safe fences along highways $3 billion. Complete construction of year two’s 1500 wildlife overpasses and begin the same number in year three to be completed in year four $7.5 billion. begin building international K12 STEM based boarding schools embedded in wild lands settings where foreign and domestic parents and kids can stay, get educated and parents get jobs in these remote locations with the goal in mind a wild lands embedded system of school camps that once projects are completed the camps will have some limited capability to be self sufficient not unlike the Kibbutz system in Israel $2 billion. Continue resurfacing the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities 21K miles $8 billion. 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
Eliminate the US forest service and the Bureau of Land management dismantling their corporate coordination divisions and transferring their enforcement personnel to the National Park Service. Begin logistics and planning in year one. All public lands eventually being 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.

17) An increase in the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag. The number of limited tags shall be issued free to those qualifying and who complete the newly designed USAR hunter safety training course. 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. No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted and no one under the age of 21 may receive a tag. 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. Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders. 

18) Our proposes projects for year four 
Reforestation, 30 million acres $15 billion. Continue YCC programs removing barbed wire and building wildlife safe fences along highways $3 billion. Complete construction of year three’s 1500 wildlife overpasses and begin the same number in year four to be completed in year five $7.5 billion. Continue building international K12 STEM based international boarding schools embedded in wild lands settings $2 billion. Continue resurfacing the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities 42K miles $17 billion. Continue installing solar fields, wind and tidal systems.+0.433 trillion kWh $19.5 billion Estimated revenues from electric generated $79.4 billion (total of 0.611 trillion kWh production)

                                               Year five

19) Proposed subsidy reallocation for year five $78.5 billion 

Proposed total budget for year five $111.2 billion

Revenues from green energy at 13c pr kWh $79.4 billion

20) We Proposed 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 taxpayer or for other purposes. 

21)  Proposed rule changes for year five. An increase in the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag. The number of limited tags shall be issued free to those qualifying and who complete the newly designed USMC hunter safety training course. No state issued tags shall be valid on federally owned public lands. The number of tags issued shall be recalculated based on USPS estimates of increasing wildlife population densities. No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted and no one under the age of 21 may receive a tag. 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. Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders. 

22) Our proposes projects for year five 

Reforestation, 30 million acres $15 billion. Continue YCC programs removing barbed wire and building wildlife safe fences along highways $3 billion. Complete construction of year four’s 1500 wildlife overpasses and begin the same number in year five to be completed in year six $15 billion. Continue building international K12 STEM based international boarding schools embedded in wild lands settings $2 billion. Continue resurfacing the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities 42K miles $17 billion. Continue installing solar fields, wind and tidal systems.+1.47 trillion kWh $65.2 billion

Year Six

23)   Proposed subsidy reallocation for year six $94.2 billion

Proposed total budget for year six $126.4 billion

Revenues from green energy at 13c pr kWh $270.5 billion

24) We Proposed 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 taxpayer or for other purposes.

25)  Proposed rule changes for year six. An increase in the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag. The number of limited tags shall be issued free to those qualifying and who complete the newly designed USMC hunter safety training course. No state issued tags shall be valid on federally owned public lands. The number of tags issued shall be recalculated based on USPS estimates of increasing wildlife population densities. No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted and no one under the age of 21 may receive a tag. 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. Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders. 

26) Our proposed projects for year six are 

Reforestation, 30 million acres $15 billion. Continue YCC programs removing barbed wire and building wildlife safe fences along highways $3 billion. Complete construction of year four’s 1500 wildlife overpasses and begin the same number in year five to be completed in year six $15 billion. Continue building international K12 STEM based international boarding schools embedded in wild lands settings $10 billion. Finish resurfacing the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities 42K miles $17 billion. Continue installing solar fields, wind and tidal systems.+1.47 trillion kWh $65.2 billion

Year Seven

27) Our proposed subsidy reallocation for year seven is $109.9 billion 

Proposed total budget for year seven $133 billion

Revenues from green energy at 13c pr kWh $461.63 billion

28) We Proposed adding $23.1 billion of the revenues from new solar to the year six subsidies reallocation and returning $438.53 billion to the taxpayer or for other purposes.

29)  Proposed rule changes for year seven. An increase in the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag. The number of limited tags shall be issued free to those qualifying and who complete the newly designed USMC hunter safety training course. No state issued tags shall be valid on federally owned public lands. The number of tags issued shall be recalculated based on USPS estimates of increasing wildlife population densities. No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted and no one under the age of 21 may receive a tag. 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. Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders. 

30) Our proposed projects for year seven are 

Reforestation, 30 million acres $15 billion. Continue YCC programs maintain wildlife safe fences along highways $3 billion. Maintenance on wildlife overpasses $5 billion. Continue building international K12 STEM based international boarding schools embedded in wild lands settings and begin tuition free higher education $50 billion, (thats the number the Sanders plan proposes) Maintain the 160,000 miles of highways with induction charging capabilities $10 billion. complete and maintain solar fields, wind and tidal systems.$50. billion

Year Eight

31) Our proposed subsidy reallocation for year eight is $0
We propose in year eight to eliminate from the federal budget and return to the taxpayers $156.9 billion in environmentally harmful taxpayer subsidies. 

Proposed total budget for year eight $133 billion

Revenues from green energy at 13c pr kWh $461.63 billion

32) We Proposed adding $133 billion of the revenues from new solar to the year eight subsidies reallocation and returning $485.5 billion to the taxpayer or for other purposes.

33)  Proposed rule changes for year eight. An increase in the threshold of financial eligibility for a wildlife hunting privilege tag. The number of limited tags shall be issued free to those qualifying and who complete the newly designed USMC hunter safety training course. No state issued tags shall be valid on federally owned public lands. The number of tags issued shall be recalculated based on USPS estimates of increasing wildlife population densities. No hunting other than by long rifle is permitted and no one under the age of 21 may receive a tag. 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. Outfitters may party hunt for absentee tag holders. 

Reallocating just 3/10 of 1% of federal subsidies annually for seven years we can  accomplish the following

1) Complete 160K miles of induction charging highways eliminating roughly 60% of our fossil fuels use, means you never have to stop for or pay for fuel again.
2) Complete 3.2 trillion kWh in publicly owned renewable energy production eliminating roughly 20% of our fossil fuels use and generating a half trillion annually revenue stream.  

3) Completed 150+ million acres of new forested areas increasing the forest carbon sink by 50%

4) Completed 6,000 wildlife overpasses reducing wildlife vehicle collisions
5) Provide $50 billion annually in tuition free education

6) Return $156.9 billion in taxpayer subsidies to the taxpayers 

7) Provide $461 billion annually revenue stream in publicly owned renewable energy production
8) Removed 600K miles of abandoned barbed wire on public land

9) Removed all domestic livestock from public lands

10) Eliminated Bureau of Land Management and US Forest Service

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

12) Doubled wildlife populations on public lands
13) Doubled the number of hunting permits to subsistence hunters

14) Total value of new renewable energy at Ḉ13 per kWh $461 billion

Returned 723.1 billion to date from the sale of renewable energy

15) Creates 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 pubic 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 shoots 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 personal shall be reassigned to the NPS for all purposes required. 
Our mission is to Defend Our Parks by making the public aware of politicians who are out to destroy our National Parks and National Forests, and urge the public to support the opposing candidates. Once elections are over, we raise awareness about what politicians are doing in Congress and in the Trump Administration that will harm our public lands and wildlife.

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 did a little political advertising of our own, and exposed politicians who try and sell the legacy of our National Parks and Public Lands to oil, gas, mining, and livestock interests. After the election, we attacked hunters and poachers who kill animals they don’t intend to eat, just for fun or trophies. The 2020 election is near, and we’ll be actively opposing the bad candidates.

We engage the public with the truth about ongoing attempts to sell or lease Public Lands to the oil and gas industry, mining interests,  or developers at the expense of our children. We expose these politicians through social media and letters to the editors of local newspapers in their home districts and states.

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

OUR NATIONAL PARKS AND NATIONAL FORESTS WERE ESTABLISHED FOR EVERYONE TO ENJOY AND PROTECT.