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	Wise use - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The movement's goals are to increase what they see as responsible commercial use of public lands for uses such as timber, mining, and oil, and to open recreational wilderness areas for easier access by the general public.
		Wise use contrasts with free-market environmentalism in that the latter is associated with libertarian political views and efforts to protect the environment through private initiatives such as land trusts; many libertarians would dispute any association of free-market environmentalism with the Wise Use movement and its goals.
		Groups which the wise use movement would rather not be associated with, such as the John Birch Society, the Unification Church, and the Lyndon LaRouche organization, have sometimes attempted to hitch themselves to the wise use cause, and hold similar views on environmental issues to the wise users.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Wise_use (479 words)

	The Public Eye : Website of Political Research Associates
		The term "Wise Use" was appropriated from the moderate conservationist tradition by movement founder Ron Arnold.
		Wise Use pamphlets argue that extinction is a natural process; some species weren't meant to survive.
		In the movement's Pacific Northwest birthplace, Wise Users harp on a supposed battle for survival between spotted owls and the families of the men and women who make their livings harvesting and milling the old growth timber that is the owl's habitat.
	www.publiceye.org /magazine/wiseuse.html (4069 words)

	"Wise Use Coalition" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Using letter-writing campaigns, protests, petitions, news-letters, and a variety of other grassroots organizing techniques, honed ironically enough by environmentalists over the last two decades, they are united in their devotion to an anti-government, "don't tread on me" philosophy and their opposition to environmentalism.
		In the case of Ringwood, New Jersey's wise use group, founder Jack Wood, then a local businessman, said he was not officially affiliated with the "wise use" movement itself, but was inspired to adopt its motto and strategies by a "Nightline" broadcast that profiled the movement.
		Wise use attempts to organize labor unions to oppose environmental groups and conservation efforts were fruitless because of these links.
	www.skyclean.org /wise.html (3258 words)

	Threats
		And this message is used to motivate the local groups and the local leaders, but the vanguard message and the conspiracy message are what you call narrow-cast messages in the media business, it's what you use to talk to a narrow group of people to get them motivated and sparked up.
		I wonder if the wise use movement allows big corporations to disassociate themselves from the wise use extremism and to take the high ground with the theme of balance that we heard was so important this morning in how it plays in the American public.
		I think it's helpful to look at this, the whole wise use movement, to separate out the parts of it that address real concerns and the parts of it that don't, because our strategies should be different in those two cases.
	www.amasci.com /~rarnold/threats.htm (9174 words)

	Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Resourcism: An Ideological Analysis of the Wise Use Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Wise users maintain that the right of the individual American citizen or corporation to pursue economic self-interest in the use of land, free from the arbitrary exercise of power by the state, is a constitutionally protected right of the American people that the courts should protect from abuse by local, state and federal governments.
		Moreover, the wise use movement is not a homogeneous entity.
		This implies that the wise use movement is a nationalistic, parochial and ethnocentric movement.
	trumpeter.athabascau.ca /content/v15.1/boston.html (7566 words)

	Wise Use Agenda
		Although Wise Use organizations differ in their specific focus, at a conference in August 1988 sponsored by Ron Arnold's Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, many Wise Use organizations came together and discussed their mutual concerns.
		Wise Use advocates have been active and in many cases successful in changing public opinion and translating their support into political and legislative action.
		Wise Use proponents have packed federal hearings on land management in the Yellowstone area as well as hearings on the 1872 Mining Act, convened by the Mining and Natural Resources Subcommittee of the House of Representatives.
	www.wildwilderness.org /wi/wiseuse.htm (1370 words)

	Wise Use Movement - SourceWatch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The so-called "Wise Use" movement is an industry-front anti-environmentalist organization founded by Ron Arnold in the late 1980s, primarily dealing with timber and mining issues in the western US.
		Wise Use proponents were buffeted by Bush's defeat and by media exposure of the movement's founders' connections to the Rev. Sun Myung Moon's Unification Church network (tainted by charges of cultism and theocratic neo-fascism), but the movement has quickly rebounded.
		Wise Use Movement/Behind the Wise Use Movement's victory in Klamath
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Wise_Use_Movement (395 words)

	Wise Use In Minnesota
		Where these places already do exist, the Wise Use movement maintains that they should be open to oil and gas drilling, logging, grazing and other uses contrary to the purpose of the land use designation.
		The Wise Use movement, while giving lip-service to the idea that we must be good stewards of the earth and that natural resources are finite, actually supports Arnold's notion that technology will be our savior, and that the whole world can be brought up to Western living standards.
		Some of the "negative influences of environmentalism on human life" that are targets of the Wise Use movement are landmark laws such as the Clean Water Act and Clean Air Act, both of which have had measurable positive impacts on human life (as well as fish, plant and animal life).
	webpages.charter.net /duluthikes/wise_use/wiseuse.htm (2072 words)

	Western States Center Research Archives
		Wise Use was one of the converging forces that delivered the November 1994 congressional putsch, sending such ultraconservatives as Idaho's Helen Chenoweth to Congress for the first time.
		A favorite Wise Use term for environmentalists is "watermelons -- green on the outside and red on the inside," and one Movement leader boasts that his group helped to make environmentalism "the perfect bogeyman" for society's ills.
		The blueprints for the Wise Use Movement were drafted by Ron Arnold of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise (based in Bellevue, Washington), in a series of articles published by Logging Management magazine in 1979-80.
	www.westernstatescenter.org /archive/wupep/violence.html (2969 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The movement originated in the western states, but now is active in the East as well, where it is championed by "developers" who want to abolish wetlands regulations and other restrictions on land use.
		Some conservationists admit that, though the leadership of the "wise use" movement is opportunistic, it was conservation organizations that provided some of their opportunities.
		Multiple use is a land-use concept adopted in the 1950s that allows logging and mining on lands initially set aside for preservation purposes.[2] In theory, multiple use means that careful timber harvesting can occur in ways that don't diminish wildlife habitat or the recreational possibilities of the forest.
	www.rachel.org /BULLETIN/bulletin.cfm?Issue_ID=794 (1686 words)

	NATIVE_NEWS: Wise Use Movement/Anti-Indian Movement
		Using the non-Indians' fear of Indians to build a power-base in mainstream politics, right-wing extremists took advantage of fear by encouraging bigotry.
		Though the Anti-Indian Movement is held together with a lot of smoke and mirrors there is enough substance to it to seriously threaten the peace and stability of Indian tribes in the United States.
		Due to its new associations in the "Wise Use Movement" the Anti-Indian Movement increased its reach and broadened its potential constituency.
	www.mail-archive.com /nativenews@mlists.net/msg05193.html (3212 words)

	The Wise Use Agenda: Wilderness
		The Wise Use movement really got its start when, in August of 1988, two hundred and fifty organizations came together to attend a conference in Reno Nevada.
		Immediately following the Reno meeting, Alan M. Gottlieb wrote the book: "The Wise Use Agenda." To many in the movement, this book is considered its "bible": for it carefully lays out a bold 25 point agenda of the Wise Use movement.
		The Wise Use movement can not be accused of waging a "sneak attack" on our public lands.
	www.wildwilderness.org /wi/point22.htm (783 words)

	Online NewsHour: Wise Use
		MINOTT: The pre-summit conference in Portland was organized by leaders of a movement known as Wise Use, a movement which says it is pro-environment.
		Wise Use has seen its influence grow in the fields of the 1994 Republican sweep both in Congress and in state houses across the West.
		But Wise Use has a lot of supporters, some say up to 100,000, and is expected to remain a potential political force in the West.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/environment/wise_use_2-19.html (1316 words)

	Wise Use movement comes to Wisconsin
		Wise Use believes that the Earth's resources were meant to be exploited for human gain and profit.
		The Wise Use Agenda, a movement handbook that was published after the Reno conference, lists 25 goals including the immediate development of oil resources in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the opening of all national parks and wilderness areas to mining, and the systematic harvest of "decaying" (read "old growth") trees on national forest lands.
		One of the most important Wise Use groups is People for the West (PFW), a Pueblo, Colorado-based organization that has professional organizers in five Western states supported largely by mining corporations.
	www.alphacdc.com /treaty/wise-use.html (898 words)

	#335 (04/29/93): The So-Called Wise Use Movement (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		They say they are the only true environmentalists; everyone else in the environmental movement they label "preservationists who hate humans." In a nutshell, the "wise use" movement aims to repeal or gut all environmental laws on the theory that environmental regulation has ruined America by curtailing the rights of property owners.
		The movement first came together under the banner "wise use" in 1988 when two men from the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise in Bellevue, Washington, Ron Arnold and Alan Gottlieb, published a book called the WISE USE AGENDA.
		The "wise use" movement gives people a focus for their concern by describing a conspiracy to destroy America, with environmentalists in a starring role.
	www.monitor.net /rachel/r335.html (1501 words)

	Guidelines for the Implementation of the Wise Use Concept
		Note: The "wise use" principle inscribed in Article 3.1 of the Convention in 1971, and its definition and application by the Conference of the Contracting Parties, have been established and have evolved completely independently from the so-called "wise use movement" that has emerged in recent years in North America.
		"The wise use of wetlands is their sustainable utilization for the benefit of humankind in a way compatible with the maintenance of the natural properties of the ecosystem".
		The concept of wise use seeks both the formulation and implementation of general wetland policies, and wise use of specific wetlands.
	www.ramsar.org /key_guide_wiseuse_e.htm (1302 words)

	WHAT'S OLD AND WHAT'S NEW ABOUT THE WISE USE MOVEMENT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		This paper examines the Wise Use movement as to whether it represents a new political phenomenon or simply a recurrence of reactionary Western land revolts such as the Sagebrush Rebellion of the late 1970s and early 80s.
		We conclude that the Wise Use Movement is a desperate effort to defend the hegemony of the cultural and economic values of the agricultural and extractive industries of the rural West.
		The best prospects for Wise Use are for a national victory of the Republican Party in 1996, a Republican party consisting of a similar coalition to that which lifted Ronald Reagan to victory in 1980.
	nwcitizen.com /publicgood/reports/maughan.htm (8805 words)

	Wise Use Leaders Denounce Extremist Left
		Two nationally-known leaders of the growing wise use movement today denounced the recent firebombings of federal buildings by radical environmentalists.
		The wise use movement is a loose confederation of more than 2,000 law-abiding organizations devoted to the preservation of property rights, natural resource-based goods production, and limited government.
		Wise use organizations work in all 50 states through public education, lobbying, litigation, and non-violent demonstrations.
	www.furcommission.com /news/newsA8.htm (324 words)

	Wise use (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The movement's goals are to increase what they see as responsible commercial use of public lands for uses such as timber, mining, and oil, to open recreational wilderness areas for easier access by the general public, and to implement free-market solutions to environmental problems.
		Some Wise Use activists refer to their position as free-market environmentalism.
		Major organizations promoting wise use ideas include Alliance for America, the American Land Rights Association, the Cato Institute, the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise, the Heartland Institute, and the Property and Environment Research Center.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/W/Wise-use.htm (458 words)

	WiseUse
		Wise users, on the other hand, tend to be cornucopians, seeing themselves as stewarding and nurturing the bountiful earth as it stewards and nurtures them.
		A wise use motto is "We all live upstream," the viewpoint of responsible individuals.
		Wise use by its very nature promotes feelings of competence to live in the world, generating curiosity, learning, and optimism toward improving the earth for the massive use of future generations.
	www.cdfe.org /wiseuse.htm (4132 words)

	Dossier - Environmental Grantmakers Association
		In recent years, the EGA has devoted enormous resources to discrediting the wise use movement -- a movement of farmers, ranchers, timber workers, miners and others who depend on natural resources for their livelihoods.
		While working on his anti-wise use campaign, Helvarg participated in a news conference in Washington, D.C., where he accused the wise use and property rights movements of being accomplices with militias in blowing up the Oklahoma City federal building.
		Helvarg, at the time, was writing articles attempting to tie the wise use movement to militias and the Oklahoma City bombing.
	www.nationalcenter.org /DossierEGA.html (900 words)

	Greenpeace Beds Down with Wise Users
		The latest example is a leaflet published for this IWC meeting in which Greenpeace claims Steinar Bastesen, chairman of the Norwegian Small-Type Whalers Association, is networking with the Wise Use movement.
		“Wise Use is a movement, in the same way as the Greens, not a club,” says Teresa Platt, founder and director of the Fishermen’s Coalition, to the Harpoon.
		Platt says she finds it “entertaining” that Greenpeace, which has attacked everyone attached to the Wise Use movement and claimed that they are linked with people and organisations they view as wacko, now gets the same medicine from Earth Island Institute.
	www.highnorth.no /Library/Movements/Greenpeace/gr-be-do.htm (662 words)

	'Wise-Use' Movement
		This session of the conference was entitled, "The Wise Use Movement -Threats and Opportunities," and was led by Debra Callahan, an environmental activist and lobbyist.
		What's different is that under the banner of "Wise Use" all the multiple use interests have spawned a grass roots movement that has our opponents very worried.
		What this all boils down to is that the reason there is so much media attention on the Wise Use movement is that the Greens greed is being exposed and they are lashing out.
	www.off-road.com /4x4web/land/wiseuse.html (2100 words)

	McCabe Home Wise Use Main Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		As Retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf once said at a Nature Conservancy press conference, ``These `Wise Use' extremists claim that economically you're going to take their jobs away from them; they're all going to become poor; their children are going to starve; and it's all because you're a bunch of fuzzy-headed tree-huggers...
		Arnold admits, however, ``The modern wise use movement does not hold Pinchot in reverence: he was just another bureaucrat who believed `conservation' had to come by `government control of resources.' ''
		``Wise Users'' are as out of touch with the American mainstream as those at the other extreme who advocate tree spiking.
	webpages.charter.net /duluthikes/wise_use/wu_dnt_oped.htm (381 words)

	Confused by the Rhetoric of the Wise Use Movement?
		Wise use of our natural resources = Any extractive use of natural products, especially if the extraction makes lots of noise, uses motors, or goes "moo"
		The Idaho state school trust lands = Lands given to Idaho at statehood to provide revenues for the public schools, but instead managed today to provide maximum comfort and convenience to livestock lease holders at minimum fees with trivial amounts of revenue to the public schools
		Playground for Easterners = Any place in the Western United States used for recreation by folks from outside the county My grazing rights = A rancher's grazing privileges associated with holding a grazing lease on public land
	www.suwa.org /newsletters/1995/spring/wiseuse.html (505 words)

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