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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#p-search" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"> </a><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#p-search" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">The&nbsp;<b>American Land Rights Association</b>&nbsp;(ALRA) is a&nbsp;</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wise_Use_Movement" class="mw-redirect" title="Wise Use Movement" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Wise Use</a>&nbsp;organization based in&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_Ground,Washington" title="Battle Ground, Washington" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Battle Ground, Washington</a>. The group describes itself as "dedicated to the wise-use of our resources, access to our Federal lands and the protection of our&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Property_rights(economics)" title="Property rights (economics)" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">private property rights</a>."<sup id="cite_ref-missandhist_1-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-missandhist-1" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font>

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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#History" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style=" display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">1</span><span class="toctext" style=" display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">History</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#Activism" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style=" display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">2</span><span class="toctext" style=" display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">Activism</span></font></a></li>

<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#References" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="tocnumber" style=" display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0.5em;">3</span><span class="toctext" style=" display: table-cell; text-decoration: inherit;">References</span></font></a></li>

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<h2 linux="Linux" libertine="Libertine" georgia="Georgia" times="Times" serif="serif" line-height="line-height" style=" background: none; font-weight: normal; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(170, 170, 170);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style=" user-select: none; margin-left: 1em; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; display: inline-block; white-space: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style=" margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=American_Land_Rights_Association&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style=" margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></font></h2>

<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The organization was founded in 1978 by property owners in the community of&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wawona,_California" title="Wawona, California" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Wawona, California</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-2" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[2]</a></sup>&nbsp;located within&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yosemite_National_Park" title="Yosemite National Park" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Yosemite National Park</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-3" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[3]</a></sup>&nbsp;It was initially named the National Park Inholders Association; it describes its mission at that time as "to protect private property landowners from unwanted acquisition by the National Park Service".<sup id="cite_ref-missandhist_1-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-missandhist-1" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The group changed its name to the National Inholders Association (NIA) in 1980. In 1985, it added a number of grazing permittees on federal land to its membership roll. In the early 1990s, it championed the cause of mining claimholders. In 1995, the organization was renamed the American Land Rights Association (ALRA).<sup id="cite_ref-missandhist_1-2" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-missandhist-1" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[1]</a></sup></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ALRA and other Wise Use organizations were most politically active in the 1990s fighting land use restrictions by the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Clinton administration" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Clinton administration</a>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style=" line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>&nbsp;With Republicans in control in Congress and the White House in the 2000s, ALRA had more friends in Washington;<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style=" line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>&nbsp;this allowed them to exercise some power over the administration's appointments. A notable case was that of John Turner, a friend of vice-president&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Dick Cheney</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-denverpost_4-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-denverpost-4" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[4]</a></sup>&nbsp;who was under consideration for the #2 position in the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Interior" title="United States Department of the Interior" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Department of the Interior</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_5-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-nytimes-5" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup>&nbsp;ALRA and other property-rights organizations opposed Turner's appointment because of his position as president of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Conservation_Fund" title="The Conservation Fund" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Conservation Fund</a>, which an ALRA release asserted was "dedicated to threatening, dividing and isolating land owners and small towns".<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-6" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[6]</a></sup>&nbsp;President&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W.Bush" title="George W. Bush" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">George W. Bush</a>&nbsp;chose not to appoint Turner, instead selecting mining-industry lobbyist&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.Steven_Griles" title="J. Steven Griles" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">J. Steven Griles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-nytimes_5-1" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-nytimes-5" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[5]</a></sup></font></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ALRA cooperates with broad-based conservative organizations on land-use related issues.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-7" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[7]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-8" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-9" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[9]</a></sup>&nbsp;It sponsors the Land Rights Network, a nationwide mail, phone, fax and e-mail lobby outreach network.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style=" line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (January 2010)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>&nbsp;It also organizes the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=League_of_Private_Property_Voters&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="League of Private Property Voters (page does not exist)" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">League of Private Property Voters</a>, which has published a vote index since 1990, scoring members of Congress on votes relating to regulations on private property rights and restrictions on use of federal public lands.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-10" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[10]</a></sup>&nbsp;The League promotes some general conservative causes unrelated to land use as well: for example, their 2007 ratings of U.S. Senate members were based on ten votes, one of which was a measure to prevent restoration of the&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine" title="Fairness Doctrine" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Fairness Doctrine</a>&nbsp;on radio and television.<sup id="cite_ref-ppvoters_11-0" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-ppvoters-11" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[11]</a></sup>&nbsp;ALRA has also sent representatives to testify before various governing bodies.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-12" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference" style=" line-height: 1; unicode-bidi: isolate; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_note-13" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">[13]</a></sup></font></p>

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<li id="cite_note-missandhist-1" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" user-select: none;">&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_ref-missandhist_1-0" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style=" line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_ref-missandhist_1-1" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><sup style=" line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_ref-missandhist_1-2" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><sup style=" line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.landrights.org/Mission.htm" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">"ALRA Mission and History".</a>&nbsp;ALRA website. Retrieved 2010-01-08.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-2" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_ref-2" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Cushman, Chuck.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.landrights.org/ActionAlerts/alra-6f8fe88e0fe.html" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">"Yosemite Alert."</a>&nbsp;ALRA Action Alerts. 2003-03-31. Retrieved 2010-01-08.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-3" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_ref-3" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.redwoodsinyosemite.com/" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">"The Redwoods"</a>&nbsp;(vacation-home rental website). Retrieved 2010-01-08.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-denverpost-4" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_ref-denverpost_4-0" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Mcallister, Bill.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://extras.denverpost.com/news/belt0204.htm" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">"Interior politics take odd twist over top posts".</a>&nbsp;<i>Denver Post</i>. 2001-02-04. Retrieved 2010-01-08.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-nytimes-5" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" user-select: none;">&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_ref-nytimes_5-0" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style=" line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a>&nbsp;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_ref-nytimes_5-1" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><sup style=" line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Seelye, Katharine G.<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/12/us/bush-is-choosing-industry-insiders-to-fill-several-environmental-positions.html?pagewanted=all" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">"Bush Is Choosing Industry Insiders to Fill Several Environmental Positions".</a>&nbsp;<i>New York Times</i>. 2001-05-12. Retrieved 2010-01-08.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-6" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_ref-6" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text">Eckles, Susan.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.off-road.com/offroad/fight_back/Interior-Department-the-Good-Bad-and-Very-Ugly/ArticleStandard/Article/detail/300771" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">"Interior Department: the Good, Bad, and Very Ugly".</a>&nbsp;American Land Rights Association: Land Rights Network. Quoted in full at&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.off-road.com/" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">off-road.com.</a>&nbsp;2005-12-01. Retrieved 2010-01-08.</span></font></li>

<li id="cite_note-7" style=" margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style=" user-select: none;"><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Land_Rights_Association#cite_ref-7" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style=" user-select: none; top: -99999px; clip: rect(1px 1px 1px 1px); overflow: hidden; position: absolute !important; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; width: 1px !important;">Jump up</span></a></b></span>&nbsp;<span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spn.org/directory/american-land-rights-association" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">"American Land Rights Association".</a>&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.spn.org/" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" standalone="standalone" no="no" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cpath="Cpath" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" m1.5="M1.5" h5.982v10.5h1.5z="h5.982V10.5H1.5z" m5.765="M5.765" h11v5.39l9.427="H11v5.39L9.427" l-1.31-1.31l5.393="l-1.31-1.31L5.393" l-2.69-2.688="l-2.69-2.688" l4.2="L4.2" z="z" m9.995="M9.995" l.022="l.022" l8.2="L8.2" l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z="l2.882-2.88-1.85-1.852z" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">State Policy Network.</a>&nbsp;Retrieved 2010-01-08.</span></font></li>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The&nbsp;<b>American Land Rights Association</b>&nbsp;was founded in 1977 by property owners located within Yosemite National Park and was known as the National Park Inholders Assosiation.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"Its mission was to protect private property landowners from unwanted acquisition by the National Park Service," ALRA's website states.&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.landrights.org/Mission.htm" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">[1]</a>&nbsp;In 1980 it changed its name to National Inholders Association (NIA) to broaden its focus to all private land owners within or adjoining public lands. In 1995, the NIA was renamed the American Land Rights Association (ALRA).</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">"ALRA is a national clearinghouse and support coalition encouraging family recreation, multiple-use, commodity production, and access to federally-controlled and state lands. Its purpose is to oppose selfish, single-use, restrictive land use designations that damage local economies, schools and roads in rural America," it states on its website.<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.landrights.org/Mission.htm" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">[2]</a></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ALRA was one of the leading groups in the anti-environmental&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Wise_Use_Movement" title="Wise Use Movement" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Wise Use Movement</a>&nbsp;that reached its peak in the 1990's opposing public lands initiatives of the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Clinton_administration" title="Clinton administration" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: none;">Clinton administration</a>. With Republicans taking control in Congress and the White House, ALRA had more friends in Washington DC&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://pla.freedom.org/AmLandRightsAssn2006VI.pdf" http="http" upload.wikimedia.org="upload.wikimedia.org" wikipedia="wikipedia" commons="commons" icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif="Icons-mini-file_acrobat.gif" right="right" center="center" no-repeat="no-repeat" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: url();">[3]</a>&nbsp;but has still opposed some Republican initiatives&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29743" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">[4]</a>&nbsp;and nominees&nbsp;<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://www.tidepool.org/original_content.cfm?articleid=132061" data:image="data:image" svg="svg" xml="xml" c="C" fxml="Fxml" version="version" d="D" encoding="encoding" utf-8="UTF-8" f="F" e="E" csvg="Csvg" http="http" a="A" fwww.w3.org="Fwww.w3.org" f2000="F2000" fsvg="Fsvg" width="width" height="height" cg="Cg" transform="transform" translate="translate" crect="Crect" x="x" y="y" fill="fill" fff="fff" stroke="stroke" cpath="Cpath" m831.194="M831.194" h5.234v5.391l-1.571="h5.234v5.391l-1.571" z="z" m835.424="M835.424" l.022="l.022" fg="Fg" padding-right="padding-right" px="px" xmlns="xmlns" xmlns:data="data" style=" text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none; background: linear-gradient(transparent, transparent) right center no-repeat, url();">[5]</a>.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">It sponsors the Land Rights Network, a nationwide mail, phone, fax and e-mail lobby network.</font></p>

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<p style=" margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ALRA

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