The adopted code of the new Moneyed Class is ‘Greed is Good’: They are satisfied producing almost nothing for America

By Skip Clement

Public lands in America are purposely and increasingly being blocked from public access to hunting, fishing, hiking, camping, canoeing, birding, and even walking rights. It’s crushing what Wallace Stegner called ‘America’s Best Idea Ever’ – Public Lands. But, unfortunately, an army of one-percenters, people who wear flag pins to suggest what they are not, think so little of America’s ‘Best Idea Ever’ that they bought enough politicians to guarantee a yes vote or a no vote on creating a new, and increasingly greedy, ‘Moneyed’ class that contributes so little it can’t be measured.

NOTE: Published with permission: Although the rainbow trout and brook trout are native to North America, the brown trout is not. Interestingly, the big three: rainbow [Oncorhynchus mykiss] also includes steelhead; brown trout, which is of the genera of Atlantic salmon [Salmo trutta], and brook trout, which is not a trout but a char [Salvelinus fontinalis] all now swim in North American waters, and throughout the world. The illustration [The Three Amigos] is available in print. Contact award-winning watercolorist Thom Glace for more information. Follow his work here . . .

Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership:

As GPS technology has made it possible to locate even the tiniest parcels of public land, it has also highlighted a major access challenge: Public lands that are entirely surrounded by private land with no permanent legal means of access. The Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership teamed up with onX to determine the scope of the landlocked problem and propose solutions for unlocking public lands. Since 2018, we have found that: