"This Land Is Our Land is the first book to explain the importance of property rights to everyone - rancher and city-dweller alike. It demonstrates how government, together with huge environmental organizations, ignore or distort the meaning of the Constitution and other important documents to further their own agenda - one that is more often concerned with the green in their bank accounts than the greening of America." "Among the revelations: the Nature Conservancy manages oil drilling and production on several of their preserves, as does the National Audubon Society; while the Sierra Club urges private landowners to restrict timber harvests to ten to twenty percent of the total volume, its northwest regional director cleared seventy percent of the standing timber on his own land for money to repair his vacation home; San Bernardino County spent $3.3 million to redraw plans for a new hospital because of the presence of eight flies on the property - money totaling the average cost of treatment for 23,644 outpatients; if your land is declared a wetland or critical habitat, you still have to pay taxes on that unusable property - for as long as you own it, and with no compensation for its loss; and many provide land donations to environmental groups end up being sold to the federal government for huge profits." "This Land Is Our Land exposes these hypocrisies and more, as it attempts to link the worthwhile goal of ecological safety with the needs of the private property owner - the true steward of the nation's lands."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved