Defenders of Property Rights
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This includes variations on the name
eg Property Rights Foundation of America steve pearse
Bond villains all-stars? wise use?
defunct? www rolls to http://www.marzulla.com/our-firm/
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Trump Admin Aims to "Break the Forest Service," Nearly 200 Million Acres at Stake
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Support our work: https://democracynow.org/donate/sm-de...The Trump administration in late March announced an extensive reorganization of the Forest Service, the federal agency responsible for managing 193 million acres of public lands across 43 states, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. As part of the changes, 57 of 77 research stations across the country will be shuttered, with the headquarters relocating from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City.
While the overhaul is billed as an effort to improve efficiency, conservationist Jim Pattiz says it will effectively destroy the agency. “This is a critically important agency,” says Pattiz, co-author of the newsletter More Than Just Parks that tracks threats to public lands across the country. “The intent here is obvious. It’s to hollow out this agency and hand it to the resource extraction industry and prepare it for, potentially, the eventual transfer of our public lands to states.”
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then the regional offices, that's another big one. They're shuttering all
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nine Forest Service regional offices. Um the this is really where the institutional knowledge of the Forest
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Service is housed. And when you get rid of those offices, you know, the goal here is to make the agency um
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subservient to the resource extraction industry that the Trump administration is aligned with.
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Um can you talk about who you think the Forest Service is
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being given over to? I mean, first of all, obviously sending from Washington DC the Forest Service to Salt Lake City,
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you're going to lose a massive amount of experience for people who cannot move.
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Um, but then talk about who it's in the hands of, who's in charge now.
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Yeah. I think something um people need to understand is the Trump administration has done this before on a
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much smaller scale. Um in Trump's first term, they moved the Bureau of Land Management another very large um public
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land management agency um from Washington DC, the headquarters from DC to uh Grand Junction, Colorado. Um that resulted in 87%
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of the affected staff walking out the door. Um only three people showed up to the new office at Grand Junction. Um,
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and you know, you can talk to uh people who work at the Bureau of Land Management now and did under the Biden administration. President Biden moved it
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back to DC, but the agency has never recovered. I mean, you're talking about so much institutional knowledge um and
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key people leaving out the door because they simply can't uproot their lives and their families um to move to this far-flung, you know, new headquarters.
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Same thing's playing out here with the Forest Service, but on a much larger scale. Um, this decision will impact up to 5,000 employees. And this is an
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agency that is already lost over a fourth of its entire staff since Trump Trump took office last January. And then
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you ask me about, you know, what who this hands it to. I mean, I think, you know, look no further than the state of Utah and the anti-public lands movement.
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Um you can look throughout the Trump administration up and down in positions of leadership um in land management
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agencies. Um these are people who are avowed um proponents of transferring our
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federal public lands to states and private interests. The sitting chief of the United States Forest Service, his
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previous job was as the executive of a logging company. That's unprecedented in the history of the Forest Service to have the chief as a logging executive.
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And so, you know, the current nominee for the Bureau of Land Management is uh former Congressman Steve Pierce from New Mexico. And this is a man who said
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Theodore Roosevelt was wrong to create national parks and national forests. So,
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the intent here is obvious. It's to hand hollow out this agency and hand it to the resource extraction industry and
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prepare it for potentially um the eventual transfer of our public lands to states.
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You've called it asset stripping and you say it's illegal. Explain, Jim.
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Well, you know, asset stripping is a
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Natural Resources Conservation Service
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov › sites › default › files › 2024-01 › CA Employee Directory-Jan 2024.pdf
California Employee Directory NRCS & Conservation Partners
Arko, Adria Allen, Grace Butler, Kasey Cowman, David Federal, Timothy Fisher, Jarrad Hall, Andrew Harris, Erica Hensman, Maaya Hodges, Lau Issel, Joe Kaeser, Amy Katz, Noah Kelleher, Christina Kipreos, Barb MDonald, Stephanie Milio, Eliza Millar, Doug Nelson, Kellyx Polgar, Sara Sanchez, Eddie Viehweg, Caileen RCD Director of Advancement ...
Wildfire Today
https://wildfiretoday.com › representative-steve-pearce-blasts-us-forest-service
Representative Steve Pearce blasts the Forest Service and the ...
In a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives Thursday night, Representative Steve Pearce, a Republican from New Mexico, heavily criticized the U.S. Forest Service, mentioning the name ...
westernwatersheds.substack.com
https://westernwatersheds.substack.com › p › steve-pearces-record-on-public-lands
Steve Pearce's Record on Public Lands
Nov 11, 2025Steve Pearce, an Congressman at the time, cutting down a tree on federal lands following a rally in the Lincoln National Forest. Screenshot from YouTube, NM Tea Party. Pearce routinely sided with ranchers in public lands grazing disputes, echoing anti-federal rhetoric and opposing enforcement efforts when livestock trespassed in protected areas.
Santa Fe New Mexican
Senate should say no to Steve Pearce at BLM | My View ...
Feb 21, 2026While in Congress, Pearce sponsored legislation that directed the U.S. Forest Service and BLM to sell public lands to either state governments or private buyers.
Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance
SUWA Statement on Steve Pearce's Nomination to Lead the Bureau of Land ...
Nov 5, 2025"A longtime player in unsuccessful efforts to prioritize resource extraction and privatize or sell off public lands, Steve Pearce is uniquely unqualified to hold the position of Director of the Bureau of Land Management," said Scott Braden, Executive Director of the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance (SUWA).
NRDC
Senate Committee Advances Pearce Nomination to Lead BLM Despite ... - NRDC
Mar 4, 2026The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to advance Steve Pearce's nomination to be the next director of the Bureau of Land Management, moving a nominee with a documented record of ...
Cronkite News - Arizona PBS
https://cronkitenews.azpbs.org › 2025 › 11 › 26 › blm-nominee-trump-pearce-environmentalists
Trump BLM pick's calls to sell off public land, expand drilling and ...
Nov 26, 2025WASHINGTON - Environmental groups in Arizona are raising alarms over President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Bureau of Land Management, former New Mexico Rep. Steve Pearce. Pearce's long record of supporting the sale of public land, opposing protection of national monuments and pushing to expand oil and gas extraction, they say, makes him unfit to lead the agency responsible for one ...
Forest History Society
Biographical Index, M-Q - Forest History Society
This is an index to files containing biographical information on approximately 5,000 Forest Service employees and officials, forestry industry leaders, and other individuals. Information in the collection is arranged alphabetically in individual files. Materials in these individual files consist of anywhere from a few pages per file up to 100 pages or more. For more...
Backcountry Hunters & Anglers
Understanding Steve Pearce's Record as He's Nominated to Lead the BLM
Nov 21, 2025Understanding Steve Pearce's Record as He's Nominated to Lead the BLM On November 5, President Trump nominated Steve Pearce of New Mexico to serve as the 20th Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). The BLM Director oversees the agency's management of 245 million acres of federal public lands. The BLM sets policy direction, guides land-use planning, and balances uses such as ...
The Denver Post
https://www.denverpost.com › 2025 › 12 › 01 › steve-pearce-trump-blm-public-lands
Western senators cannot support this Trump nominee who wants to ...
Dec 1, 2025Do Western senators really care about keeping public lands in public hands? Steve Pearce, President Donald Trump's nominee to run the Bureau of Land Management, is a litmus test of their commitment.
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James Taylor is a Senior Fellow with the Heartland Institute and managing editor of the Heartland publication Environment& Climate News.
Taylor previously served as a legal analyst for Defenders of Property Rights. He has also been an intern at the Cato Institute, and a member of the Federalist Society.
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Website appears to be down as of 2006.
Official Website:
http://www.yourpropertyrights.org/ rolls to http://www.marzulla.com/our-firm/
Location:
Founding Date:
1991
| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Bork | Government | 1-Mar-1927 | 19-Dec-2012 | Fired Archibald Cox, later got himself borked |
| Larry Craig | Politician | 20-Jul-1945 | US Senator from Idaho, 1990-2009 | |
| T. Kenneth Cribb | Activist | 7-Aug-1948 | Conservative activist | |
| Ken Cuccinelli | Politician | 30-Jul-1968 | Virginia Attorney General, 2010-14 | |
| Becky Norton Dunlop | Government | 2-Oct-1951 | Conservative activist | |
| Orrin Hatch | Politician | 22-Mar-1934 | US Senator from Utah | |
| Ed Meese | Government | 2-Dec-1931 | US Attorney General, 1985-88 | |
| Richard Pombo | Politician | 8-Jan-1961 | Congressman from California, 1993-2007 | |
| Lamar Smith | Politician | 19-Nov-1947 | Congressman, Texas 21st |
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Defenders of Property Rights was, according to its website, "founded in 1991 to counterbalance the governmental threat to private property as a result of a broad range of regulations. We believe that society can achieve important social objectives such as protection of our environment and preservation of our national heritage without destroying private property rights or undermining free market principles." [1]
Contents
History
In August 1995, DPR's Policy Advisory, Ian MacKenzie, wrote to the Senior Vice-President of Corporate Affairs for Philip Morris, Craig Fuller, with a pitch for funding. As far as MacKenzie was concerned, the issue of combating regulations regulating smoking needed to be re-defined as intruding on a constitutional right - "the right to own and use property".
While praising the company's voluntary program on youth smoking - "Action against access" - MacKenzie warned it was insufficient "to placate the anti-smoking movement" and the general public may consider that not enough was being done by the industry to educate the young. "If so, this could result in a demand for more active measures, confronting the company with having to work openly against its own market interests, and forcing it to unilaterally give ground on a constitutional right - the right to own and use property," he warned.
DPR, of course, had a solution - funding a program that included promoting "the principles of freedom, tolerance and Accommodation". "It is not as widely understood as it should be," Mackenzie wrote, "that property which lies at our constitutional liberties, is more than land or buildings. It is also intangibles: art, ideas, services - in sum the fruits of our labors".
MacKenzie proposed a three pronged strategy includingtaking "the moral high ground by making property rights the issue", extending the company's youth smoking campaign to advise against smoking "butextol the principles of individual freedom, personal responsibilityand decision making", and seeking to involve both retailers and the advertising industry.
While MacKenzie didn't offer a price tag for the groups services, but made clear it was keen to assist. "We have the specifics on how to bring all theses elements together and build a national communications campaign … As a 501 (c) (3) legal defense foundation and national property rights leader, our objective is to protect property rights from the regulatory state and, in part, do this by raising awareness of how property rights are being adversely affected by government regulation of the marketplace," he wrote.
A fortnight later, MacKenzie was following the pitch up with Francis Gomez, the Director of Public Programs for Corporate Affairs with Philip Morris.
Defenders of Property Rights did receive money from the tobacco industry:
- Philip Morris
Some other documents describing 'Defenders' pro-tobacco activities: [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14]
Board of Directors
- Harry C. Alford, President & CEO National Black Chamber of Commerce
- Becky Norton Dunlop,(hon.) VP for External Relations The Heritage Foundation
- Timothy N. Hyde, Founding Partner DCI Grou**p, LLC
- Charles W. Jarvis, Chief Executive United Seniors Association
- Stephen G. Kieffer, CEO Kieffer & Co., Inc.
- Tex Lezar, Clements, O'Neill, Pierce, Nickens and Wilson L.L.P. (died January 5, 2004 [15])
- J. B. Love, Managing Partner Estancias Argentinas, LLC
- Nancie G. Marzulla, President Defenders of Property Rights
- Roger J. Marzulla, (hon.) Chairman Marzulla & Marzulla
- Vicki A. O'Meara, (hon.)Executive VP and General Counsel Ryder System, Inc.
- David A. Waronker, President CBD Development Group, Inc.
Board of Advisers
- Robert Bork, American Enterprise Institute
- Lamar Smith, US House of Representatives
- Senator Larry E. Craig
- T. Kenneth Cribb, Jr, Intercollegiate Studies Institute
- John J. Curry, Jr., Foran, Nasharr & O'Toole Ltd.
- Orrin G. Hatch
- Professor Jonathan R. Macey, Cornell Law School
- Edwin Meese, The Heritage Foundation
- Richard W. Pombo
- Eric M. Rubin, Rubin, Winston, Diercks, Harris and Cooke
- Mark Killian, Director of Revenue, State of Arizona
Contact
Defenders of Property Rights
1350 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 410
Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone 202.822.6770
Fax 202.822.6774
External Links
- Defenders of Property Rights, "letter to Craig Fuller", Bates No 2048253703, August 30, 1995.
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1350 Connecticut Avenue, NW Suite 410 Washington, D.C. 20036
Phone: 202-822-6770
Fax: 202-822-6774
Extremely active in the Wise Use movment, Defenders of Property Rights was founded in 1991 by former staffers of the Mountain States Legal Foundation.
Free-market oriented and anti-regulatory, Defenders of Property Rights is the "The only national public-interest legal foundation dedicated exclusively to the protection of constitutionally guaranteed rights in property." (www.yourpropertyrights.org) Defenders is a member of theCooler Heads Coalition (5/04), Get Government Off Our Backs, Grassroots ESA Coalition, and the Alliance for America. Foundation support has come from the Sarah Scaife Foundation, Castle Rock Foundation (Coors), Carthage Foundation, and the JM Foundation.
KEY PEOPLE
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President
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Chairman
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SOURCES
Disinfopedia profile, Defenders of Property Rights
http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Defenders_of_Property_Rights
Defenders of Property Rights website
http://www.yourpropertyrights.org/about/boardadvisors.asp
http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=94
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Bennet William Raley will be the Assistant Secretary for Water and Science at the Department of Interior. His duties will include development, management, and conservation of the nation's water supply. According to Earthjustice's research (provided by the Clearinghouse on Environmental Advocacy Research and White House Watch) done on Raley, he has been a member of the Defenders of Property Rights Attorney Network, a Washington-based legal foundation dedicated entirely to property rights matters. DPR's primary goal has been to promote "takings" laws, which threaten to make environmental laws and regulations prohibitively expensive by requiring payments to private landowners and others who might be affected by regulations.
According to Earthjustice, Raley lobbied against a 1994 Clean Water Act Reauthorization bill introduced by Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) and the late John Chafee (R-RI). The bill would have set new guidelines for states on controlling polluted runoff, and Raley contended that the new pollution rules violated states' rights. Raley also testified on behalf of the National Water Resources Association in support of Rep. Don Young's (R-AL) Endangered Species Act reform bill (H.R. 3160 - 106th). The proposed legislation would have limited citizen suits against ESA violators, generally weakened ESA enforcement provisions, required economic analyses before listing species, and allowed damaging activities to proceed under certain circumstances. NWRA is a member of the National Endangered Species Act Reform Coalition, an association formed by utility, logging, development, and mining corporations with financial interests in weakening the ESA.
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Environmental Conservation Organization
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Environmental Conservation Organization is a US-based organisation that was "founded in 1988 when 17 national organizations met in Chicago to devise a strategy to protect private property rights from erosion by excessive environmental regulations". [1]
ECO is a 501(C)4 not-for-profit organization
History
ECO is a conservative western US organization that publishes reports available for subscribing members. On its website it identifies its most popular reports -which reflect its conservative agenda - as:
The Rise of Global Governance: "This report traces the development of global governance from Cecil Rhodes, through the creation and collapse of the League of Nations, through the creation of the Council on Foreign Relations, the United Nations, and all the way, decade by decade, through the rash of Global Conferences that dominated the 1990s. This report is well documented with 103 endnotes."The Rise of Global Green Religion: "One of our most popular reports traces the creation of the National Religious Partnership for the Environment (NRPE). Initiated by the Temple of Understanding, through the United Nations, with considerable help from Al Gore and Timothy Wirth, this campaign is reaching 67,000 churches in America, and is heavily influencing both domestic and international environmental policy."Federal Land-use Control through Ecosystem Management:"In anticipation of ratification of the Convention on Biological Diversity, newly-elected Vice President Al Gore created a White House Task Force on Ecosystem Management. The Task Force coordinated a massive policy change to implement the requirements of the treaty. Those policies are now in force although the treaty was never ratified. This report documents specific policies recommended by various United Nations agencies that are now the policies of the federal government - even though the treaty has not been ratified." [2]
Eco×logic is a publication of the Environmental Conservation Organization
Board of Directors:
- Ronnie Merritt, Chairman, Yeso, NM
- Robert E. Jones, Vice-chairman, Dell City, TX
- Henry Lamb, Executive Vice President, Hollow Rock, TN
- G.B. Oliver, III, Alamogordo, NM
- Junior Stoots, Alamogordo, NM
- Jonna Lou Schafer, Dell City, TX
- Jay Walley, Executive Director, Lincoln, NM
Advisors:
- Dr. John Cooper, Advisor, Wichita Collegiate School
- Dr. Hugh Ellsaesser, Advisor, Lawrence Livermore Labs (Ret.)
- Larry Pratt, Advisor, Gun Owners of America
- Tom McDonnell, Advisor, American Sheep Industry Association
- Dr. William Hazeltine, (Dec.)
- Nancie G. Marzulla, Advisor, Defenders of Property Rights
- Dr. S. Fred Singer, Advisor, Science & Environment Policy Project
- Floy Lilley, J.D., Advisor, Chair of Free Enterprise, Univ. of Texas
- Dr. Dixy Lee Ray, (Dec.)
- Robert Vicks, (Dec.)
Contact Info
Environmental Conservation Organization
1200 North White Sands Boulevard #110
Alamogordo, New Mexico 88310
505-434-3195
Tennessee office
731-986-0099
web site: http://www.eco.freedom.org
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archive
http://www.polluterwatch.com/anti-environmental-archive/defenders-of-property-rights
1991 artl : nollan v 1st english?
https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/1349886/defendersofpr00680.pdf
WT 1996
http://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1349909-defendersofpr00700.html
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