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<div>R.J. Smith is a senior fellow in environmental policy at The National Center for Public Policy Research, a position he has held since mid-2005.  He also serves as director of the Center for Private Conservation, a group that researches and publicizes private conservation and stewardship on private lands in the U.S. and abroad.

Mr. Smith studied under renowned Austrian economist Ludwig Von Mises while attending New York University.

Once president of a local Audubon Society chapter, Mr. Smith has studied environmental policy for nearly forty years and coined the term “free market environmentalism.”

Mr. Smith has served as a consultant to the U.S. Department of the Interior, a consultant to the President’s Council on Environmental Quality, and as a special assistant at the EPA. He has also served as director of environmental studies at the Cato Institute and currently serves as an Adjunct Analyst at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

A popular speaker, Mr. Smith has lectured throughout the United States. He has also lectured abroad, including in Mexico, New Zealand, France, Japan, Australia, and the United Kingdom, among other countries.

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http://www.oregonmarinereserves.org/cape-perpetua

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Organizations, businesses, and other entities support the existence and implementation of marine reserves in Oregon.

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OMRP collaborates with scientific institutions to inform and communicate science priorities and information.

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="https://www.omsi.edu/" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Oregon Museum of Science and Industry</a> (OMSI) - A science and technology museum in Portland, Oregon</div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://www.piscoweb.org/" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Partnership for Interdisciplinary Study of Coastal Oceans </a>(PISCO) - A long-term monitoring and research program</div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://oimb.uoregon.edu/" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">The Oregon Institute of Marine Biology</a> (OIMB) - A University of Oregon marine biology teaching and research facility</div>

OMRP collaborates with Oregon's management agencies to further community engagement and share information.

<a href="http://www.oregon/gov/lcd" target="blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Department of Land and Conservation Development (DLCD) </a><a href="http://oimb.uoregon.edu/" target="blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">- Ocean and marine spatial planning </a>

<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/dsl" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Department of State Lands </a>(DSL) - Submerged lands and leases

<a href="http://www.dfw.state.or.us/" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife</a> (ODFW) - Management and monitoring

<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/oprd" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Oregon Parks and Recreation Department </a>(OPRD) - Rocky shores management

<a href="http://www.oregon.gov/osp" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Oregon State Police</a> (OSP) - Enforcement

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;">OMRP collaborates with other state and federal agencies to advance mutual goals associated with Oregon's marine reserves.</div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://ortravelexperience.com/" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Oregon Travel Experience</a> - Promotes tourism throughout Oregon</div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a target="blank" href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/siuslaw/" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">USDA - US Forest Service - Siuslaw National Forest</a><a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/siuslaw" target="blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;"> - </a><a href="http://www.fs.usda.gov/siuslaw" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Extends from Tillamook to Coos Bay along the Oregon Coast</a></div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a target="_blank" href="http://www.fws.gov/oregoncoast/" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">US Fish and Wildlife Service - Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge Complex </a>- 6 National Wildlife Refuges </div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;">OMRP collaborates with community teams and local groups to share information about Oregon's marine reserves.</div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://www.redfishrocks.org/" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;"> </a><a href="http://www.clatsopwatersheds.org/ecola.html" target="blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Ecola Creek Watershed Council - </a><a href="http://www.clatsopwatersheds.org/ecola.html" target="blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Part of the North Coast Watershed Association</a></div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CapeFalconMR" target="blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Friends of Cape Falcon - </a><a href="https://www.facebook.com/CapeFalconMR" target="blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Shares information about the Cape Falcon Marine Reserve</a></div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://lnwc.nehalem.org/" target="blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Lower Nehalem Watershed Council - </a><a href="http://lnwc.nehalem.org/" target="blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Protects, preserves, and enhances the Nehalem watershed</a></div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://www.nehalemtrust.org/" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Lower Nehalem Community Trust</a> - Preserves land and nurtures conservation values in partnership with an engaged community in the Nehalem region of the Oregon Coast.</div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://midcoastwatershedscouncil.org/" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">MidCoast Watersheds Council</a> - Improves the health of streams and watersheds of Oregon's central coast so they can produce clean waterk, rebuild healthy salmon populations, and support a healthy ecosystem and economy.</div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://www.siuslaw.org/" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Siuslaw Watershed Council</a> - Develops and participates in community efforts to restore and protect watershed health, water quality and native fish populations</div>

<div style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; line-height: 26px;"><a href="http://nclctrust.org/" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">North Coast Land Conservancy- </a>The mission is to conserve Oregon's coastal lands forever</div>

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OMRP collaborates with Oregon businesses that seek to advance understanding and awareness of Oregon's marine reserves.

<a href="http://www.sealioncaves.com/" target="_blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Sea Lion Caves - </a>A connected system of sea caves and caverns open to the Pacific Ocean in the U.S. state of Oregon

<a href="http://www.oceanhaven.com/" target="blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Ocean Haven - </a><a href="http://www.oceanhaven.com/" target="blank" style=" transition-property: color; transition-duration: 0.2s; transition-timing-function: ease-out; text-decoration: none;">Ocean Haven is nature-friendly lodging in Yachats, Oregon</a>

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R.J. Smith is the Distinguished Fellow at CEI's Center for Energy and Environment. Mr. Smith also serves as director of the Center for Private Conservation (CPC), a former CEI project. The CPC documents, prepares case studies on, and publicizes noteworthy examples of private conservation and stewardship on private lands in the U.S. and abroad.

Combining a natural sciences background in geology from Stanford University with social sciences and economics from New York University, Mr. Smith began to apply market and property-rights solutions to environmental issues when he was president of an Audubon Society chapter in 1970. He coined the term “free-market environmentalism” in his book, Earth’s Resources: Private Ownership vs. Public Waste.

Mr. Smith was consultant to the Department of the Interior and the President’s Council on Environmental Quality, and he served as a special assistant at the EPA. He was a consultant to the Edison Electric Institute and director of environmental studies at the Cato Institute. Currently he works on wildlife, endangered species, property rights, and property stewardship.

Mr. Smith is a popular speaker and has lectured and debated widely, including in Japan, Australia, New Zealand, France, Portugal, Belgium, England, Canada, Mexico, and the United States.

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Third AnnualPrivate Conservation DaySaturday, April 13, 200211:00 a.m. – noonNatural Bridge of Virginia

Please join the Center for Private Conservation to celebrate its Third Annual Private Conservation Day. The event will take place at the Natural Bridge of Virginia, the first known example of private stewardship in American History, thanks to Thomas Jefferson’s purchase of the bridge from King George III in 1774.  Jefferson called it “The most sublime of Nature’s works.”Event highlights will include remarks by:

The Honorable Mark Rey, Under Secretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment who will acknowledge the outstanding contributions of private landowners everywhere and present this year’s “Private Conservationist of the Year” award.

·         Becky Norton Dunlop, Vice President of External Relations for the Heritage Foundation and former Secretary of Natural Resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia.

·         Chief Kenneth Branham from the Monacan Indian Nation.

Come view one of this country’s earliest examples of private conservation and see why Interior Secretary Gail Norton proclaimed, “Private Landowners are often the best stewards of our land,” during CPC’s Second Annual Private Conservation Day.

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Ecoterrorism Kills

But not necessarily the way you think

Robert J. Smith • October 30, 2007

With reports that some of the fires in California may have been started by arsonists, some people have speculated that all the fires were set by ecoterrorists. What these accusations seem to overlook, however, is that the nation has long faced a much deeper and more insidious philosophical ecoterrorism.

This philosophical ecoterrorism envisions and strives for an mythical, pre-settlement America — while ignoring the fact that we have 300 million people living here. This philosophy, combined with governmental inefficiencies, has created the conditions under which forest fires flourish and eventually spread out to destroy private property, as has occurred with the most recent catastrophe.

Every one of this month’s 15 major southern California’s fires started on government lands — mainly in the three or four National Forests that stretch 250 miles from Mexico into Ventura County. These are the Cleveland National Forest, the San Bernardino National Forest, Angeles National Forest, and Los Padres National Forest. Also the Malibu fire came down out of the infamous Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area. The eighth-largest fire was at Camp Pendleton Marine Base, which is now run largely as an inviolate Endangered Species Preserve.

These fires have burned out of control for a number of reasons. First, the federal government has mismanaged all the National Forests for a century — believing fires were unnatural and evil, the government sought to extinguish at all costs. The Smokey the Bear era — beginning in the 1940s — exacerbated that policy, pushing to stop every fire within 24 hours.

By contrast, the pre-settlement, open, park-like forests naturally were characterized by relatively frequent ground-hugging low-intensity underbrush clearing fires. However, the action on the part of the feds to stamp these out for about 100 years, filled the forests with duff, needles, cones, deadwood, and downed wood, and thousands of small undergrowth trees — what amounts to a tinder box. In addition, these conditions stressed and weakened the entire forest.

Then the nation let the Greens and “deep ecologists” move us from the era of mismanagement into the trendy era of no-management. This idea they dubbed “natural regulation.”

The “natural regulation” philosophy allowed forests to whither and die from drought, over-crowding, insects, beetles, diseases, and eventually fire. Greens and federal bureaucrats accepted this result simply because they deemed it “natural.”

President Reagan temporarily ended the let-burn policy in the National Parks following its ”successful” debut in the 1988 Yellowstone National Park fires, but he was shortly out the door, and the deep Green philosophy was quickly and quietly reinstated.

As a result of the reigning philosophy and its consequent regulations, we now can’t cut trees, thin over-crowded forests, or clear out underbrush. We can’t spray for insects or beetles, and we can’t harvest green trees. We also can’t salvage brown or black trees while the wood is still valuable.

The California government has given the okay for salvage of standing dying/dead brown and black trees, but unfortunately, there is no place to take them.

Green government policies have shut down hundreds and hundreds of sawmills. California sawmills have dropped from the 200 that were functioning 20 years ago, to about 38 today — a 70-percent drop. No one is going to salvage trees if they can’t process them, and the last sawmill in southern California near the end of the Sierra Mountains is on the verge of closing. It’s down to one shift and only enough logs already on the deck to last until June. (The ESA and courts closed all the National Forests around that sawmill because the fisher, a mink relative, may be added to the endangered species list.) If the sawmill closes, the nearest sawmill would be at least 500 miles north.

The green philosophy certainly reigns supreme. But rather than being directed by some “monkey-wrenching” Earth Liberation Front (ELF) activists, it’s advanced by our national acceptance of their philosophy, and implemented by our presidential advisers, Cabinet members, a vast number of the 70,000 people at the Department of Interior, and lord only knows how many of the 30,000 people in the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture. It’s also upheld by our courts.

Supposedly the passage of the Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 was going to stop these problems. Many in Congress, horrified by the catastrophic fires in 2000, 2001, and 2002, worked with the Bush Administration to solve the problem in 2003. At the height of the very similar October 2003 southern California fires and after 3,000 homes were destroyed and 17 lives lost, Senator Barbara Boxer (D., Calif.) finally agreed to let the Healthy Forests bill go through. But then the Santa Anas fires stopped, cool fogs, rain and snow arrived, and Boxer refused to go to conference. After a month of wrangling, she finally capitulated, and Bush signed the bill on December 3, 2003.

Nonetheless, it didn’t work — just try to use the law. Try to salvage dead trees while the wood is still valuable. Greens will find a judge who will grant a temporary injunction of three months or so — covering the warm season when you can get into the mountains and remove trees. Then snow and ice hit the mountain forests and the standing deadwood has another year to rot and decay, become discolored, and lose value. And you can trust that when the next warm season rolls around, the process will be repeated.

There is a kind of “ecoterrorism” that is destroying America, but it takes the form of green policies. And though it may not be called arson, it’s much worse than the work of some lone ELF disciple.

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EARTH DAY IS A TIME TO REMEMBER THE PROUD HISTORY

OF PRIVATE STEWARDSHIP, SAYS CONSERVATION GROUP

(Fifth of six environmental issue briefs) [2002?]

April 22 should be a time of reflection on the great efforts by the thousands of people who work diligently to preserve some small piece

of the planet privately, and very often, at their own expense, says R J. Smith, senior scholar of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for

Private Conservation (CPC).

For over three decades Smith has done extensive research and written about the private conservation work of individuals, associations,

outdoor groups, land trusts, conservation groups, hunting and fishing organizations, a broad range of private landowners and

corporations. He has served as a consultant for the Department of Interior, the Council on Environmental Quality during the Reagan

administration, and as a special assistant at the Environmental Protection Agency.

"People have a long history of conserving nature privately. They’ve done it in the past, they’re doing it now and they’ll do it in the

future," he says. One of the earliest examples of private stewardship involved Thomas Jefferson. After viewing the Natural Bridge of

Virginia, it so inspired him that he felt compelled to take action to privately protect what he called, "the most sublime of Nature’s

works." To ensure this would happen, Jefferson bought the landmark in 1774 from King George El. The bridge today, 225 years later,

is still privately owned. "The integrity and beauty of the bridge and its natural setting remain unspoiled - a testimonial to private

conservation," Smith notes.

The Center’s emblem, the Wood Duck, is a prime example of successful private stewardship. Rapidly disappearing early in this century, the government could do little more than ban hunting. Yet as a cavity-nesting bird, its plight arose from the felling of the eastern forests as human settlements grew. A multitude of individuals and organizations stepped in to help rescue the species by working with private landowners and erecting artificial nest boxes across the country, thereby ensuring its survival and recovery.

Smith points to the Sea Lion Caves in Oregon and Hawk Mountain Sanctuary in Pennsylvania as extraordinarily successful private preserves that helped to "turn the tide against government-subsidized eradication of seals, sea lions, and birds of prey." Unfortunately,

such efforts receive little attention; people are often under the mistaken view that the government is solely responsible for conservation.

great depression bounty <a href="http://www.hawkmountain.org/who-we-are/history/page.aspx?id=387">http://www.hawkmountain.org/who-we-are/history/page.aspx?id=387</a>

In 1929, Pennsylvania's Game Commission placed a $5 price tag on the goshawk's head—a grand sum at the time [but also/later for sport ; migration corridor? DDT?

[The best available scientific information indicates the eastern Steller sea lion has increased from an estimated 18,040 animals in 1979 to an estimated 70,174 in 2010, the most recent year for which data are available. Eastern Steller sea lions will continue to be protected under provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

Steller sea lions were first listed as a threatened species under the ESA in 1990. In 1997, NOAA scientists recognized two distinct population segments of Steller sea lions: a western and an eastern segment. The eastern segment includes Steller sea lions from Cape Suckling, Alaska, south to California's Channel Islands. The western population segment remains classified as endangered. NOAA is not proposing any changes to the status of the western Steller sea lion.

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The threats to the Steller Sea Lion can be classified in two main categories. The first category covers human-induced factors such as hunting and killing. For most of the 20th century, Steller Sea Lions were killed as part of programs to control predators of fish raised in British Columbia fish farms. Other human-induced limiting factors include accidental entanglement in fishing gear or debris; catastrophic accidents such as oil spills, environmental contaminants like heavy metals which are harmful to health; and finally, the relocation of sea lion populations away from their critical habitats, or the degradation of these habitats. The species is also subject to a second category of threats, natural this time, which include occasional decreases in the number of prey available, predation by killer whales and disease.

<h3 id="protection" style=" margin: 1em 10px 0.25em; line-height: 26.88px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Protection</h3>

<h3 style=" margin: 1em 10px 0.25em; line-height: 26.88px; vertical-align: bottom; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Federal Protection</h3>

More information about SARA, including how it protects individual species, is available in the <a href="http://www.registrelep-sararegistry.gc.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=F3178B4D-1" style=" line-height: 19.2px;">Species at Risk Act: A Guide</a>.

Management of marine mammals in Canadian waters is the Federal Government’s responsibility. Commercial hunting of all marine mammals, including the Steller Sea Lion, is prohibited in the Pacific Region. After having suffered from many years of killing, Steller Sea Lions have been protected since 1970 by various regulations of the Fisheries Act applied by Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Some animals however, have been killed under special permits. The Oceans Act, which came into force in 1996, protects the habitats of marine mammals. Certain breeding grounds in British Columbia also benefit from additional protection: the Cape St. James rookery is protected under the Canada National Parks Act and the Scott Islands rookeries are part of a provincial ecological reserve.

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"Government takes a cookie cutter approach when it comes to protecting the environment. Private conservation allows virtually every

person in this country who has a vision, to take an active role in saving species and habitat," Smith adds. Earth Day should also

celebrate and acknowledge the commitment to the environment that so many private individuals and organizations share.

Besides saving species from extinction, private conservation efforts include creating habitat: putting up a chickadee nest house; planting

crabapple trees that provide food for birds; or maintaining a birdbath. "Even the smallest yard in the city can attract birds or butterflies by creating a backyard habitat. Swallowtail butterflies, for instance, like parsley, and are easily attracted to the plant," Smith reports.

He concludes by encouraging everyone to think "good stewardship," this Earth Day. It offers something for anyone interested in the

environment. Some feel a real moral obligation; others have a desire to take care of a species, habitat, or environment that will offer

profit or non-profit benefits; and for still others, nurturing the environment and its creatures is a hobby that allows them to stay

connected to nature.

Created in 1995, the CPC is a project of the Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI). CPC researches, documents, and promotes the

public benefits of private conservation and private stewardship.

(Note to the news media: Earth Day interviews with the following spokespersons can be arranged by calling Judy Kent at (202)

331-1010 or (703) 759-7476 (home) or Emily McGee at (202) 331-1010 or (703) 892-2534 (home).

Fred L Smith, - President, CEI, ext. 214

• Removing barriers to environmental stewardship

• Learning from past mistakes: how traditional private conservation lessons can be used in the modem world.

Jonathan Adler, CEI Sr. Dir.of Environmental Policy, ext. 245

• Property Rights & Environmental Protection

• Endangered Species Act

• Conservation without Regulation

R.J. Smith, CPC Senior Scholar, ext. 244

• History of Private Conservation

• Why the government hurts, not helps, endangered species

• Private Conservation success stories

Michael Dealessi, CPC Director, (San Francisco Office) (415) 487-9223

• Marine conservation and fisheries

• Private Conservation

• Conserving large spaces privately

• CITES (Convention on International Trade and Endangered Species) and African Wildlife issues

CEI, a non-p...

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