The conservative leaders of the Conservative Action Project have released a new “Memo for the Movement” regarding “30 X 30” Biden’s latest extra-constitutional executive order.
There is no existing legislative authority for 30 X 30, and the 117th Congress has taken no steps to authorize 30 X 30. No hearings have been held by the House and Senate committees of jurisdiction, and no bills to authorize a 30 X 30 program have been introduced. In fact, the only bill that has been introduced, by Representative Lauren Boebert, would prohibit implementation of 30 X 30.
The United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 we urge ConservativeHQ readers and friends to call their Representative and Senators to demand they join Rep. Lauren Boebert and cosponsor her bill to prohibit implementation of 30 X 30.
August 31, 2022 Washington, DC
President Joe Biden’s “30 X 30” initiative threatens to be the biggest federal land grab since Congress passed the Endangered Species Act in 1973. Executive Order 14008 on “Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad,” signed by President Biden on 27th January 2021, directs the Secretary of the Interior in section 216 “to achieve the goal of conserving at least 30 percent of our lands and waters by 2030.”
Although roughly 640 million acres (or 27%) of America’s total land mass are already owned by the four federal land agencies, the Secretary of the Interior’s initial report, titled “Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful,” makes it clear that 30 X 30 will target massive amounts of privately-owned land for government control as well as eliminating natural resource production (including oil and gas, hardrock minerals, timber, and livestock grazing) on National Forests and public lands owned by the Bureau of Land Management. Radical preservation groups and other proponents of 30 X 30 have stated emphatically that locking up the West and Alaska, where most of the federal lands are, is not sufficient; instead, they insist that 30% of each “eco-region” must be under federal land-use management. This will necessarily require regulating hundreds of millions of acres of private land.
Conservatives strongly oppose 30 X 30 for the following reasons:
* Property rights and widespread ownership of private property are essential foundations of limited government and ordered liberty. The current extent of federal land ownership and of federal land-use controls already threatens these vital constitutional underpinnings. 30 X 30 constitutes another step on the regulatory road to serfdom.
* When government owns or controls most of the land in rural America, government then controls the rural economies and the lives of rural Americans. Rather than adding another layer of federal regulation over rural America, the President and the Congress should be repealing or reforming existing federal land-use controls and radically reducing the amount of land owned by the federal land agencies.
* The federal land agencies are more often than not terrible stewards of the environment. For example, the catastrophic wildfires that have destroyed millions of acres of forests in the West and the wildlife living there are fires that start and spread on federal land because of misguided preservationist policies. Private land owners, on the other hand, have strong incentives to take care of what they own through active management. Existing federal controls on private land, such as endangered species habitat designations, have created perverse incentives and thereby damaged the environment. Imposing another layer of federal land-use control can only lead to further environmental degradation.
* There is no existing legislative authority for 30 X 30, and the 117th Congress has taken no steps to authorize 30 X 30. No hearings have been held by the House and Senate committees of jurisdiction, and no bills to authorize a 30 X 30 program have been introduced. In fact, the only bill that has been introduced, by Representative Lauren Boebert, would prohibit implementation of 30 X 30.
We encourage all Americans to oppose this illegal, immense, and catastrophic expansion of federal control over our property and our lives.
The Honorable Edwin Meese III
Attorney General
President Ronald Reagan (1985-1988)
The Honorable Becky Norton Dunlop
White House Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1981-1985)
The Honorable George K. Rasley Jr.
Former Assistant Director
U.S. National Park Service
The Honorable Bob McEwen
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Ohio
Kelly J. Shackelford, Esq.
President and CEO
First Liberty Institute
Ed Corrigan
Vice Chairman, Conservative Action Project and President & CEO, Conservative Partnership Institute
Tom Jones
Co-Founder
American Accountability Foundation
Terry Schilling
President
American Principles Project
Lisa B. Nelson
Chief Executive Officer
American Legislative Exchange Council
Chad Connelly
Founder and President
Faith Wins
Scott T. Parkinson
Vice President for Government Affairs
Club for Growth
Thomas Fitton
President, Judicial Watch, Inc.
President, Council for National Policy
David N. Bossie
President
Citizens United
The Honorable Tony Perkins
President
Family Research Council
The Honorable Russ Vought
Director, Office of Management and Budget (2020-2021)
Lt. Gen. William G. Boykin (Ret.)
Executive Vice President
Family Research Council
Lori Roman
President
ACRU Action Fund
The Honorable Brooke Rollins
President and CEO
America First Policy Institute (AFPI)
The Honorable Ken Ivory
Representative
Utah House of Representatives
The Honorable James C. Miller III
Budget Director for President Reagan (1985-1988)
Rod D. Martin
Founder & CEO
The Martin Organization, Inc.
Christina Murphy Lusk
President
The Martin Foundation
Sherri R. Martin
Executive Vice President
The Martin Organization, Inc.
The Honorable Stephen Stockman
U.S. House of Representatives
Former Member, Texas
Ron Pearson
Executive Director
Conservative Victory Fund
Tim Throckmorton
President
Lifepointe Ministry
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President
Lindsey Communications
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Conservative Activist and Donor
Judson Phillips
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Tea Party Nation
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President & CEO
AlignAct.com
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President
American Policy Center
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Executive Director
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Partner, Morris & De La Rosa
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The Honorable Mike Hill
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Florida State Representative
Gerard Kassar
State Chairman
NYS Conservative Party
Ed Regan
Former Resource Manager (1995 - 2021)
RY Timber, Inc.
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Rod Vandenbos
CEO
R2 LLC
Tim Macy
Chairman of the Board
Gun Owners of America
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President
Tradition, Family, Property, Inc.
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President
VAF
Michael J. Petersen
State Representative
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President
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President
Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
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President
Americans for Limited Government
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Chairman
The Conservative Caucus
James Edwards
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Conservatives for Property Rights
Darrell A Henry
Executive Director
Western Caucus Foundation
Chris Wright
Executive Committee Member
Potomac Tea Party
The Honorable Cheryl K. Acton
Representative
Utah House of Representatives
Kent Glesener
President, Paradigm Construction & Engineering, Inc.
Alan Gardner
Chairman
American Lands Council
The Honorable J. Kenneth Blackwell
Chairman, Conservative Action Project
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Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment
Competitive Enterprise Institute
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The Leadership Institute
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Chief Domestic Advisor
President Ronald Reagan (1987-1988)
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Executive Director
Advancing American Freedom
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President
Republic Book Publishers
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CPAC
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President
Club for Growth
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Media Research Center
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Chairman
Tea Party Patriots Citizen Fund
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FreedomWorks
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The Bill Walton Show
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President
ForAmerica
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Executive Chairman
Center for Security Policy
The Honorable Ken Cuccinelli
Former AG of Virginia & Asst. Deputy Sec., Dept. of Homeland Security
Center for Renewing America
The Honorable Scott Walker
President
Young America's Foundation
The Honorable Donald Paul Hodel
U.S. Secretary of Energy (1982-1985)
U.S. Secretary of Interior (1985-1989)
Guillermo J. Aragon
Chief Strategy Officer
Martin Capital
Lourdes Cosio
Campaign for the American Future
Shawn A. Mitchell
Former National Chaplain, National Federation of Republican Assemblies
Anne Schlafly Cori
Chairman
Eagle Forum
Dr. Virginia Armstrong
Natl Director, Law & Worldview Program
Eagle Forum
The Honorable Peter Hoekstra
Member of Congress 1993-2011
Ambassador (Ret)
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Hayes, Berry, White & Vanzant, LLP
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Director, Washington Bureau
Tradition, Family, Property
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President
American Energy Alliance
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Executive Producer
America Can We Talk?
Paul Gessing
President
Rio Grande Foundation
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President
New Mexico Federal Lands Council
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President
Sandy Creek Foundation
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Representative
Arizona
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President, Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation
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President
Center for Military Readiness
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President
American Encore
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President, Clare Boothe Luce Center for Conservative Women
Don Woodsmall
President (Interim)
Center for Security Policy
Ashley Baker
Director of Public Policy
Committee for Justice
Seton Motley
President
Less Government
Carl Albrecht
State Legislator
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President
Noah Webster Educational foundation
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President
Hawaiian Values
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Trustee
MRC
Sal Russo
Co-Founder and Chief Strategist
Tea Party Express
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Presidential Appointee
President Ronald Reagan
Eaton Hopkins
President
Liberty Surgical, Inc.
Ralph A. Rebandt II
Candidate
Ralph Rebandt for Governor
Dr. Jerome Robert Corsi
Founder and CEO
DrJeromeCorsi.com
The Honorable Terrence Scanlon
Retired Chairman and President
Capital Research Center
Willes K. Lee
Vice President
National Rifle Association of America
Allen J. Hebert
Chairman
American-Chinese Fellowship
Floyd Brown
Founder
The Western Journal
Greg Walcher
Former Executive Director
Colorado Dept. of Natural Resources
Joe Biden administration
federal lands
30x30 order
Rep. Lauren Boebert
Endangered Species Act of 1973
Executive Order 14008
Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad
Secretary of the Interior
Oil and gas exploration
Bureau of Land Management
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