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Private land lockup: federal and state agencies are, in essence, pulling the land right out from under the feet of private property owners as part of the United Nations' radical Wildlands Project. (Cover Story-Land Grab).(Cover Story)

The New American

| May 20, 2002 | Grigg, William Norman | COPYRIGHT 2002 American Opinion Publishing, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

One moment they were responsible, law-abiding owners of forestland in rural Washington; the next, they were ecocriminals confronting onerous fines and eviction from land they thought they owned. What had they done? Nothing -- and that was the problem, according to notification letters sent by the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR).

The DNR notices sent last December informed owners of forestland tracts larger than 500 acres that they were required to submit a Road Maintenance and Abandonment Plan (RMAP) for all "forest roads" on their land (including driveways). The new law, explained the April 22nd Seattle Times, requires "the state's 91,000 ...

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