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</font></div><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>pay-to-play soiree offering the ultra-wealthy access to newly inaugurated President Donald Trump is unraveling — after the <a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/12/19/20564/donald-trumps-sons-behind-nonprofit-selling-access-president-elect" style="text-decoration: none;">Center for Public Integrity on Monday revealed</a> that Trump’s adult sons are registered directors of the new, Texas-based nonprofit organizing the event.</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Since then, Eric Trump <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/20/us/politics/donald-trump-family-charity-opening-day-foundation.html?_r=0" style="text-decoration: none;">told the <em>New York Times</em></a> that he and his brother will not attend the Jan. 21 event in Washington, D.C., despite <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3243183-Opening-Day-2017-Redacted.html" style="text-decoration: none;">promotional material</a> originally promising their participation as honorary co-chairmen — and a bonus hunting and fishing trip with one or both of the brothers.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Event organizers, meanwhile, distributed revised descriptions of the event that removed references to Donald Trump’s attendance. It also removed mention of the multi-day hunting and fishing trip for sponsors who ponied up $500,000 or more.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">And while all three Trump names are still prominently featured on the event’s promotional materials, the nonprofit behind the event, known as the Opening Day Foundation, on Tuesday <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3245527-BUSINESS-ORGANIZATIONS-INQUIRY-VIEW-ENTITY-Amended.html" style="text-decoration: none;">amended</a> its <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3244010-Texasdocument.html" style="text-decoration: none;">incorporation documents</a>. Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are no longer named as directors.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The hunting-themed “Opening Day 2017” affair (dress code: “camouflage and cufflinks”) is the latest in a series of potential conflicts to surface for the incoming administration, prompting additional questions about the rules Trump will put in place to avoid any appearance of influence-peddling, something he frequently decried on the campaign trail.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here's how the Opening Day 2017 event sprung into existence — and fell apart almost as quickly:</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The brochure for Opening Day 2017, listing sponsorship packages ranging from $25,000 to $1 million, first surfaced on website <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/16/donald-trump-inauguration-party/" style="text-decoration: none;">TMZ.com</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It offered big-dollar donors the chance to attend a “private reception and photo opportunity” with the freshly inaugurated Trump, as well as a “multi-day hunting and/or fishing excursion” with Donald Trump Jr. and/or Eric Trump “and team,” plus other event tickets and benefits.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The brochure didn’t spell out who was organizing it or who would benefit, saying only that net proceeds would be donated to unspecified “conservation charities.” Rather, interviews and documents reviewed by the <a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/12/19/20564/donald-trumps-sons-behind-nonprofit-selling-access-president-elect" style="text-decoration: none;">Center for Public Integrity revealed</a> the organizer was a new foundation called the Opening Day Foundation, incorporated in Texas on Dec. 14.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The paperwork for the Opening Day Foundation listed four directors: Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Dallas investor Gentry Beach and Tom Hicks Jr., the son of a Dallas billionaire. Beach and Hicks are reportedly close friends with Donald Trump Jr., and both men helped raise millions of dollars for Trump’s campaign. Beach is also the godfather to one of Donald Trump Jr.’s children, <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/11/11/two-young-dallas-guns-helped-deliver-white-house-trump" style="text-decoration: none;">according</a> to the <em>Dallas Morning News</em>.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Trump officials — as well as Beach and Hicks — initially stayed silent, ignoring repeated requests for comment.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But on Tuesday, the Trump transition team issued a statement. It read: "The Opening Day event and details that have been reported are merely initial concepts that have not been approved or pursued by the Trump family. Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are avid outdoorsmen and supporters of conservation efforts, which align with the goals of this event, however they are not involved in any capacity."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The nonprofit filings, Trump officials said, would be amended and the brothers’ names deleted. Anonymous transition officials <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/offer-of-trump-access-at-fundraiser-is-pulled-back-but-family-ties-remain/2016/12/20/ec185520-c6ea-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.c11de50358ca" style="text-decoration: none;">told the <em>Washington Post</em></a> that the names of Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump had been included on the documents “without their permission.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Brinkerhoff, a spokesman for the Opening Day 2017 event, said Tuesday night in an interview with the <a href="http://www.publicintegrity.org/politics" style="text-decoration: none;">Center for Public Integrity</a> that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump are invited to the event, but their participation isn’t confirmed.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The inauguration weekend event would be the first for the Opening Day Foundation, which Brinkerhoff said is currently seeking official recognition from the Internal Revenue Service to operate as a 501(c)(3) charity. This status would allow donors to deduct contributions on their taxes.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Such nonprofits also aren’t required by law to disclose their donors, meaning pro-Trump contributors to the Opening Day Foundation could ostensibly do so anonymously. Political committees such as candidates’ campaigns and super PACs, in contrast, must reveal their donors in periodic reports to the Federal Election Commission.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Brinkerhoff said the goal is for the Opening Day Foundation is to distribute proceeds to conservation charities — similar to what the United Way does for other charitable organizations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The new documents outlining sponsorship opportunities said that until the IRS grants the Opening Day Foundation tax-exempt status, the Opening Day Foundation will operate as a “project of the <a href="http://www.boone-crockett.org/about/about_overview.asp?area=about" style="text-decoration: none;">Boone and Crockett Club Foundation</a> Inc.,” a wildlife conservation group based in Montana.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A spokesman for the Boone and Crockett Club Foundation, however, told the <em>Washington Post</em> that the group has not decided whether to participate in the Opening Day 2017 fundraiser.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Asked Tuesday night about the Trump brothers’ involvement with the creation of the foundation, Brinkerhoff said he “didn’t know” whether they had agreed to have their names on the original nonprofit documents.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ultimately, he said, “The foundation creators determined among themselves that the founders of the foundation will not include Eric or Donald Jr.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In interviews <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/12/20/eric-trump-donald-trump-jr-distance-dallas-based-nonprofits-inauguration-party" style="text-decoration: none;">with the <em>Dallas Morning News</em></a> and <em>Washington Post </em>this week, Hicks Jr. and Beach disagreed over who first had the idea to create the Opening Day Foundation.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hicks attributed the idea to Donald Trump Jr. and Beach.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“One of the most important things for Don Jr. and Eric is conservation, and we wanted to help them organize a party to celebrate conservation,” Hicks <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/offer-of-trump-access-at-fundraiser-is-pulled-back-but-family-ties-remain/2016/12/20/ec185520-c6ea-11e6-bf4b-2c064d32a4bf_story.html?utm_term=.6804dccfd75c" style="text-decoration: none;">told</a> the <em>Washington</em> <em>Post</em>. “After the president-elect won, we got focused on this. Don Jr. and Gentry have been spearheading it.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Beach <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/12/20/eric-trump-donald-trump-jr-distance-dallas-based-nonprofits-inauguration-party" style="text-decoration: none;">told</a> the <em>Dallas Morning News</em> that he and Hicks thought of the idea for the foundation in early December.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Beach also <a href="http://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2016/12/20/eric-trump-donald-trump-jr-distance-dallas-based-nonprofits-inauguration-party" style="text-decoration: none;">said</a> that after the nonprofit was registered, lawyers advised the foundation’s committee to remove the Trumps’ names.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“It became clear that we needed to go in a different direction. So we took Don Jr. and Eric out of the foundation completely,” Beach said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In response to requests for comment from Beach and Hicks, Brinkerhoff issued a statement to the Center for Public Integrity: “The group is committed to and supportive of conservation causes, and excited to create positive change.”</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ethics experts say the incident — and others, including a canceled plan to raise money for charity by auctioning off coffee with Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and <a href="https://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/11/29/20486/donald-trump-offering-huge-perks-inauguration-donors" style="text-decoration: none;">Trump’s inauguration itself</a> — highlights the need for Trump and his administration to set clear guidelines and rules governing conflicts of interest and pay-to-play issues.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 22px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: 32px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The whole thing adds up to an unprecedented assault on the constitution on ethics and on frankly on taste,” said Norman Eisen, who was a top ethics lawyer in the Obama White House, referring to the series of questions about potential conflicts of interest and ethics issues. “It’s like the appetizer at the corruption banquet. 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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The new chair of the powerful Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee secured a vote Thursday afternoon in the U.S. Senate on a controversial proposal to sell off America’s national forests and other public lands.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski’s (R-AK) amendment, which passed by a vote of 51 to 49, is now part of the Senate’s nonbinding budget resolution. The proposal would support and fund state efforts — which many argue are<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/report/2013/03/11/56103/state-efforts-to-reclaim-our-public-lands/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">unconstitutional</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>— to seize and sell America’s public lands. These include all national forests, wildlife refuges, wilderness areas, historic sites, and national monuments.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Murkowski’s amendment, which would need further legislation to become law, follows a similar proposal from House Natural Resources Committee Chair Rob Bishop (R-UT) to spend<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2015/03/16/3633814/gop-budget-public-lands/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">$50 million</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>of taxpayer dollars to fund the sale or transfer of U.S. public lands to states.</font></p>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Murkowski’s proposal to sell off public lands, however, is meeting stiff opposition from other western senators. On a conference call yesterday, Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Michael Bennet (D-CO)<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.eenews.net/eenewspm/2015/03/25/stories/1060015767" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">said</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that they are determined to turn back legislative attacks on the outdoors. Bennet called efforts to sell off lands to reduce the federal deficit “an assault on our public lands.”</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senator Heinrich also introduced an<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.eenews.net/assets/2015/03/25/document_pm_03.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">amendment</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Wednesday which would block any effort to sell off public lands to reduce the federal deficit. Heinrich<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.flyrodreel.com/blogs/tedwilliams/2015/march/amendment-support-applauds-measure" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">said</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>that “selling off America’s treasured lands to the highest bidder would result in a proliferation of locked gates and no-trespassing signs in places that have been open to the public and used for generations.”</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Public opinion research has found that a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.americanprogress.org/press/release/2014/09/25/97816/release-bipartisan-poll-finds-western-voters-oppose-transfer-of-americas-forests-and-public-lands-to-state-ownership/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">majority of Westerners</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>oppose land grab efforts and believe that transferring public lands to state control will result in reduced access for recreation; higher taxes; increased drilling, mining and logging; and a high risk that treasured public lands will be auctioned off to the highest bidder.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Over the past few months, sportsmen’s groups have also been battling state efforts to seize and sell off public lands by</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><a href="http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20150225/NEWS01/150229713/Sportsmen-rally-for-public-lands-" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);"><b>rallying</b></a><span class="Apple-converted-space"><b> </b></span><b>in state capitols across the West. Land Tawney, Executive Director of Backcountry Hunters and Anglers, thanked Senator Heinrich for introducing his amendment and fighting for public lands.</b></font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>“American hunters and anglers have consistently stood up in support of U.S. public lands since Theodore Roosevelt set them aside for all Americans more than a century ago,”</b> Tawney<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.flyrodreel.com/blogs/tedwilliams/2015/march/amendment-support-applauds-measure" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);">said</a>. “Today, Congress has responded.”</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Texas hunting club has canceled plans to auction off a chance to kill an African elephant, the club's executive director said Saturday.</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ben Carter of the <b>Dallas Safari Club </b>told The Associated Press, that the donor of the hunt withdrew his donation.</font>
<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The African elephant is the Earth's largest land animal. The World Wildlife Fund, the world's leading conservation group, regards it as "vulnerable," a step below "endangered" and defined as "facing a high risk of extinction in the wild."</font>
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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Dallas Safari Club faced international criticism last year for auctioning a permit to shoot an endangered black rhino. That hunt has been postponed until the winner receives permission to import the carcass from Namibia.</font>
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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 15px; line-height: 23.8px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font>L. Frank Baum, who became famous as the author of The Wizard of Oz, earlier had a career as a pioneering newspaperman in South Dakota. He wrote in the 1890s:</font>
<em>The PIONEER has before declared that our only safety depends upon the total extirmination (sic) of the Indians. Having wronged them for centuries, we had better, in order to protect our civilization, follow it up by one more wrong and wipe these untamed and untameable creatures from the face of the earth. In this lies safety for our settlers and the soldiers who are under incompetent commands. Otherwise, we may expect future years to be as full of trouble with the redskins as those have been in the past.</em>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In the 1970s, following a decade of Indian activism that started with the fish-ins in Washington, the Mohawk land occupations in New York and Canada, the formation of the National Indian Youth Council (NIYC), and the occupation of Alcatraz, anti-Indian “white backlash” groups started to form.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In Washington State they were a reaction to the 1974 Boldt decision that stated Indians were entitled to half the runs of steelhead and salmon as guaranteed in the 1854 treaties. Whites who had bought land on reservations also protested having tribal governments exercise jurisdiction over them. In Montana, they formed around protests of tribes exercising jurisdiction over rangelands. Many of the hate groups also advocate for the complete revoking of all treaties with Indian tribes. They also resent the rights Indians reserved through treaties to hunt and fish on reservation lands and other public lands.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">They maintain that the white race is superior to Indian tribes or Indian individuals. Labeling themselves as “citizen’s rights” organizations, these groups barely conceal their hate for Indians in general and their scorn and derision for tribal councils. One of their main planks is trying to assert that they are not subject to the jurisdictions of tribes—even though their property may be in the middle of an Indian reservation.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">They maintain that tribes have no jurisdiction beyond the members of their own tribe. They have won some major battles on that issue in the past half-century. Tribes no longer have criminal jurisdiction over non-Indians living on reservations.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">A decade later, these groups were still organized and had expanded to more states. They are now located in the states of Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wisconsin.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">They are made up mainly of people who own property or businesses on Indian reservations and small farmers with land on reservations. They later attracted a substantial number of right-wing professional haters as members. Some people compare the groups to the Ku Klux Klan, the Aryan Nations, and the Skinheads in their ideology and tactics.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The adoption by President Rutherford B. Hayes of the concept of “Manifest Destiny” led to the movement of the U.S. to claim all the land between Canada and Mexico, and from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, for the U.S. This led to the passage in 1887 of the General Allotment Act. Senator Dawes of Massachusetts was the sponsor of the legislation, which detractors denounced as just another way to get to the last Indian land. Despite opposition, the legislation passed, and the Dawes Commission carried out the Indian land giveaway over the next five decades. Indian tribes, of course, were not consulted about the General Allotment Act.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As a result of Allotment, almost all Indian reservations today are “checkerboarded.” Indian property is next to non-Indian property, which lies next to tribal property, which lies next to Forest Service lands, and so on. The small Navajo reservation at Ramah southeast of Gallup has seven different kinds of land on it.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Under the General Allotment Act, two-thirds of the 150 million acres of Indian lands were lost to the tribes. They were left with 50 million acres, which has slowly been added to in the past 50 years. Kickingbird (1973) documented the history of this illegal selling of reservation lands.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Most of the Indian lands were in isolated areas; some of them were deserts. However, there are also Indian lands that are prime agricultural acreage. Others are prime timber acreage, and still others have petroleum, coal, oil, gas, uranium, and other minerals. It is ironic that the Indian tribes now own about 25% of all the energy producing lands in the United States, which are found mostly on poor lands.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">There are now more non-Indians living on Indian lands than there are Indians. Many of them are third or fourth generation ranchers and farmers. They either own the land outright, or they have 99-year leases on it. The second-largest group is absentee landowners who use the property as vacation homes. The third-largest constituent of the groups is sport and commercial fishermen.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The leading Indian hate group these days is the Citizens Equal Rights Alliance (CERA). Dave Lundgren, an attorney, calls them the Ku Klux Klan of Indian Country. Its sister organization is the Citizens Equal Rights Foundation (CERF). In 2002 CERA held a Mother’s Day conference in Washington called “Confronting Federal Indian Policy.” CERF at about the same time filed an amicus curiae brief with the Supreme Court in U. S. v. Lara calling for the Court to find that </font><b style="color: rgb(110, 110, 110);">Congress has no power to recognize the inherent powers of tribes.</b>
<b style="color: rgb(110, 110, 110);">Both CERA and CERF are made up of white owners of Indian reservation lands</b><font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. The CERF and CERA members are the third and fourth generation descendants of the people who profited from acquiring Indian lands. What alarms them these days is that tribes are re-acquiring some of these lands in order to build an economic base for their people again. The hate groups can’t stand the idea that Indians would get some land back, no matter how it happens.</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Larry Kibbey lists the following anti-Indian groups on his Web site:</font>
<b style="color: rgb(110, 110, 110);">U.S. Farm Bureau, National</b>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">All Citizens Equal (ACE), Montana</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">East Slope Taxpayers Association, Montana</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">People for the West, National</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">North Dakota Committee for Equality</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Equal Rights for Everyone, Wisconsin</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Citizens Rights Organization, Montana</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Cheyenne River Landowners Association, South Dakota</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Concerned Citizens Council, Nebraska</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Equal Rights for Everyone, Wisconsin</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Wisconsin Alliance for Rights and Resources (WARR)</font>
<b style="color: rgb(110, 110, 110);">Trout Unlimited, National</b>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Protect Americans Rights and Resources (PARR), Wisconsin</font>
<font color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">National Wildlife Association</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Citizens Equal Rights Alliance, National</font>
<font color="#6e6e6e" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">International Association of Fish and Wildlife</font>
<font color="#ff0000" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Interstate Congress for Equal Rights and Responsibilities (ICERR) 1976 book, cf Th King</font>
<font>Steelhead/Salmon Protective Association and Wildlife Network (S/SPAWN)</font>
<font><b>Western States Coalition.</b></font>
<font>Rudy Ryser says the total Indian hate group list now has more than 50 organizations on it. They claim to have 500,000 members, but Ryser puts their active membership at 10,850. The number of people who give money or write support letters he puts at 34,150, which is a potential force. They are still trying to eliminate reservations, outlaw tribal governments, and declare an end to the “Indian problem.”</font></font></p>
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<p style="margin: 0.4em 0px 0.5em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">A popular social movement in the late 1800s pushed conservation of natural resources to the top of the national agenda. The leaders of the movement were concerned that poor land management would put long-term national interests at risk, as well as destroy future Americans' natural heritage. Under President<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt" title="Theodore Roosevelt" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">Theodore Roosevelt</a>, the United States placed 230,000,000 acres of land under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_areas_in_the_United_States_National_Park_System" title="List of areas in the United States National Park System" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none;">national protection</a> to conserve natural assets for the long-term use of future generations.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congressional_International_Conservation_Caucus#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[5]</a></sup></font>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sound science is fundamental to designing effective conservation strategies.</font></li>
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<li style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Conservation requires collaboration among governments, civil society organizations, the private sector, international institutions, and others.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1em; unicode-bidi: -webkit-isolate;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Congressional_International_Conservation_Caucus#cite_note-9" style="text-decoration: none; background-image: none; white-space: nowrap;">[9]</a></sup></font></li>
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