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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fritz the Cat" data-source="post: 320806" data-attributes="member: 605">The administration issued a report two days ago. It's an overview. Little substance.<a href="https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/report-conserving-and-restoring-america-the-beautiful-2021.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/report-conserving-and-restoring-america-the-beautiful-2021.pdf</a>I'll post a little blurb from the introduction:Since before America’s founding, the health and productivity of the continent’s lands and waters supported an abundance of human life and activity. From the bounty of the Great Plains and vast coastal forests to the high deserts of the Southwest and beyond, Native peoples built some of the most enduring and advanced civilizations on Earth. Many hundreds of Indian Tribes lived sustainably on the lands for millennia.The promise of arable and productive land fueled centuries of migration to America’s shores, bringing fortune-seekers and refugees who sought a better life, and also millions of women, men, and children who were captured and forced into generations of slavery and oppression. As the Industrial Age dawned, the new nation’s coal, oil, minerals, and timber powered fast-growing industries. America’s rich seas—and the cod, salmon, lobster, and other seafood they supplied—became the engine for the most productive and profitable fisheries on the planet. Farmers, ranchers, and forest owners have built vibrant rural economies that supply food and fiber to the world, while also developing strong and lasting stewardship traditions that are a proud corner stone of America’s conservation heritage.Often, our nation’s lands and waters have been venues of struggle and injustice. For well over a century, the U.S. Government waged war against Native peoples, taking their lands, killing their sacred wildlife, implementing brutal assimilation policies, and making and breaking promises. The horrors of the Civil War are still etched in the American landscape, reminders of the costs and consequences of slavery, racism, and division.Reading the above it occurred to me a recurring theme. Have read all this before. The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation. The damn market hunters shot all the wildlife and then the sodbusters tore the place to hell.</blockquote>

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