The Activist Post has a complete story about this.

The free dispersal of information allows for the reader/researcher to independently decide from the information he or she has found whether it is useable and substantiated. When Google and other search engines began “helping you out” by making determinations based on your search history, etc., this became a form of censorship, potentially blocking you from obtaining the information you wanted or at least making the task much more difficult.

Now Google introduces the Knowledge Graph. In the video below one of the narrators states that Google has decided to help users move from “information” to “knowledge”. While this may sound good, the Knowledge Graph is a tool to give “Googlists” the information it determines you ought to have regardless of whether it is factual or not. This so called “knowledge” is predetermined bits of information that lots of people like, regardless of its accuracy. Not only is this censorship but it is indoctrination and manipulation of what is determined to be dispersed as information. In short, brainwashing while purposely restricting researchers from access to information the censors have decided you shouldn’t have. This kind of doctrine I’ll call “Googlism”.

As examples, some the “knowledge” will come from the CIA databases, which any rational thinking person understands is mostly propaganda. In addition, Google will use Wikipedia, which is a common source database riddled with inaccuracies and biases and the information can be changed often by most anybody.

Knowledge is defined at what a person understands. This can be far from what is factual. Resist this brainwashing censorship and find other non government controlled search engines.

Fight Googlism! Don’t be a Googlist.

Ok, where are the demented wolf lovers and animal rights idiots? Why aren’t they boycotting Volvo and raising a big stink of their portrayal of the “big bad wolf”. Sure, the wolf seemingly cowers and backs down from the ferociousness of the revving motor but doesn’t both of these images depict the wolf in negative ways that wolf lovers have for so long fought against, i.e. that wolves are loving creatures, not vicious and snarling as shown in this video ad?

WASHINGTON, D.C., April 26, 2012 – House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Doc Hastings (WA-04) released the following statement on Judge Redden’s admitted bias to destroy Snake River Dams:

“This interview candidly reveals the activist bias of Judge Redden that I and many in the Pacific Northwest have suspected for years. Due to his personal views, this one judge unilaterally dragged and drove costly litigation on for nearly a decade.

“He issued unprecedented, questionable and expensive rulings resulting in his literally seizing control of the river system’s operation. He ignored clear and sound science that salmon species are returning in numbers greater than before these dams were built, and forced taxpayers to pay for millions of dollars in higher energy bills and lawyers’ fees. He ordered the waste of tens of millions of dollars by forcing the spilling of water past dams that science reveals has benefited few, if any, fish, and may have actually harmed them. He’s ignored federal science that shows more fish benefit from safe barge transportation, and he’s clouded any semblance of the best science and the law regarding federal salmon protection measures supported by three states, many tribes and other stakeholders.

“This one politician-turned-judge kept pursuing his agenda and imposing his own views over the policies of the elected Presidential Administrations of Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama.

“Judge Redden has admitted his bias in favor of the agenda of radical environmental groups whose sole goal is the extreme act of tearing down hydropower dams that provide the vast majority of the power generated for Northwest families and businesses—about 80 percent for Idaho, 70 percent of Washington and nearly 60 percent for Oregon. This is clean, carbon-free and renewable energy that has supported the Northwest’s vibrant agriculture, technological and trade economies for decades.

“Judge Redden’s bias is being used to further this radical agenda just months after he announced his retirement from the case and as a new, hopefully impartial, judge has been appointed to oversee the endless and unclear future of litigation he perpetuated.

“It’s time for the endless litigation and radical agendas—bolstered by one man’s personal views and grip on a judge’s gavel—to stop and to ensure that the Northwest will be given certainty that a plan supported by states, tribes and others will be approved to ensure that dams keep producing clean, renewable hydropower and allow for abundant salmon for generations to come.”

(Columbus) – To help and educate all hunters, anglers, trappers, recreational shooters, and persons with an interest in the great outdoors and conservation, the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance has launched “The Sportsmen’s Daily”—a new website covering all things outdoors. The new site focuses on issues and news around the nation and is updated frequently.

The site focuses on legislative issues insight and reports which sportsmen and women nationwide expect from the USSA. The site also includes information on USSA collaborative projects and programs (such as Trailblazer and Families Afield), and features cutting-edge news in the shooting sports and angling industries.

Visitors can also search the website for blogs that provide perspectives on Protecting What’s Right, and insider views on where legislation is—or could be headed—in the nation’s and states’ capitals. From time to time the website features special deals on gear and keen insight from the pro staff and manufacturers who comprise the important USSA Outdoor Business Council.

But it also includes many useful features to help you enter the field. An interactive map will take visitors to active and current weather reports, game laws, and regional information. Short videos will entertain and educate visitors on a wide variety of outdoors topics. The new website also provides a quick link to sign up for the USSA’s popular Sentry program and makes getting involved with USSA watchdog efforts easier.

“The Sportsmen’s Daily” offers a searchable database where you can determine what has been happening in your state. The popular “Eye-on-the Antis” articles continue to expose the methods and tactics of radical anti-hunting and anti-trapping groups.

The best news is that The Sportsmen’s Daily can be delivered to your computer each morning much like the newspapers of yesteryear landed on your door step. Use your mouse to make this your home page and to help you make accurate decisions on what action to take—or what to pursue that day.

Take a tour at www.ussportsmen.org.

MISSOULA, Mont.–”RMEF Team Elk,” the first television program fully owned and produced by the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, is being honored as the Fan Favorite
Best New Series on Outdoor Channel.

The show premiered in 2011 and new episodes for season-two will begin in July.

“RMEF Team Elk” co-hosts Brandon Bates and Cameron Hanes accepted the honors from Outdoor Channel during the 12th Annual Golden Moose Awards ceremony held as part of the Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show, Jan. 19, 2012, in Las Vegas. More than 2,000 hunting industry leaders, TV personalities and media personnel attended, with a worldwide audience watching the event live online.

“No show affiliated with RMEF has ever been nominated before, but this year we collected four nominations and received an important win as a fan favorite, so this is very special,” said Steve Decker, vice president of marketing for RMEF.

He added, “‘RMEF Team Elk’ is more than just a TV show. It’s part of a conservation movement that’s making a difference for the future of elk and elk hunters. Since every RMEF member is a part of Team Elk, this is important recognition for all of us and the work that we’re doing together across elk country.”

Decker thanked elk hunters everywhere for watching the show and casting their votes.

Presented by MidwayUSA, “RMEF Team Elk” is sponsored by Weaver, Browning, Brunton, Danner, Hunter’s Specialties, Buck Knives, Eberlestock, Cooper Tires, Sitka, Nosler, Montana Decoy, Budweiser, Under Armour, Archer Xtreme and Buckstop Truckware.

Even though all the scheduled meetings of the Task Force mandated by the Maine Legislature to determine why hunting and fishing license sales have declined over the past few years, only two of those meeting’s minutes have been posted and available to the public. For those interested in reading those minutes, follow this link, and to date the two meeting minutes were October 2, 2011 and October 23, 2011. Click on the link for the date of each of the meeting minutes and you can read them as a word document.

After reading over the minutes from the October 2, 2011 meeting, I put together a report of what my take was on the meeting from those minutes. You can find that article by clicking this link.

In that article I said that it appeared to me that the Task Force has made a determination that the major reasons for the decline were a bad economy and a poor perception by nonresidents that Maine has an unproductive deer management strategy.

In blaming the economy for this downtrend, there are at least two issues that need to be addressed. The first one is to take a look at when the trending down of license sales began. According to the information provided at the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife (MDIFW) website, the statistics compiled from “MOSES”, how licenses are sold in Maine, between 1995 and 2010, it appears that nonresident license sales for big game hunting peaked in 2002 at 30,676. Since that time sales have dropped off to a low in 2010 of 17,513 – an over 40% drop-off.

If the number of people unemployed is any indication of the health of an economy, or in this case as to whether people can or will spend money to hunt in Maine, we find that in 2002 when it appears nonresident hunting license sales peaked, unemployment was running at 5.5%. In July of 2005 that rate had continued to dip to 5%. While unemployment in 2005 was dropping to its lowest levels since prior to that attacks on the World Trade Center, Maine nonresident big game hunting license sales had dropped to 27,189.

We can continue to follow this trend. In October of 2006, unemployment stood at 4.4% and hunting license sales continued to drop to 26,067; October 2007 – unemployment = 4.7% and sales = 24,103; October 2008 – unemployment = 6.6% and sales = 20,878; October 2009 – unemployment = 10.1% and sales = 18,471; and finally in October 2010 – unemployment = 9.7% and sales = 17,513.

In this comparison, I fail to see any real direct correlation between unemployment and the reduction of nonresident hunting license sales. Long before the economy was souring, the sale of nonresident hunting licenses in Maine was dwindling.

This is not to say that a bad economy isn’t contributing to the reduction in license sales. Bear in mind, and I’ve pointed this out previously, that in one of the pieces of resource data that the Task Force opted to use, a study done by Responsive Management, their study indicated the opposite affect may result from a bad economy versus a robust economy. Their data indicated that in a booming economy, where much of the hunting participants work in construction, too much work prohibits them from taking the time or having the time to hunt. The study suggested that in times of a poor economy, perhaps more people would hunt due to more time available for them to hunt.

The second issue to discuss I find quite puzzling. While the Task Force focuses its blame for poor license sales on the economy, an article that appeared in the Kennebec Journal November 20, 2011, provided information that seems to blow the theory of a bad economy out of the water.

According to data from the Maine Office of Tourism, the number of overall out-of-state visitors to Maine is on the rise. In 2009, Maine saw a net visitation of 34.5 million. In 2010, that number grew to 37.5 million.

Even more puzzling is that Carolann Ouellette, director of the Maine Office of Tourism, sits on the Task Force board. All I have to go on is the information available on the MDIFW website, which included only minutes from 2 meetings. Nowhere in those minutes is there any mention of this statistic that overall tourism is up in Maine. Perhaps this was discussed and did not make the minutes. I just don’t know.

In the Kennebec Journal article, Ouellette says that her agency doesn’t keep specific statistic on hunters coming to the state and as such, “it’s difficult to say why that group isn’t returning in the same numbers.”

While it may be difficult for some to say why the nonresident hunters aren’t coming to Maine, I don’t think it’s all that difficult to conclude that the economy is not a major reason that deters them. To resolve to this conclusion appears to be inaccurate and paves the way for errant suggestions on how to correct a problem. In other words, the Task Force may be barking up the wrong tree.

In defense of the Task Force, the minutes to the second meeting of October 23, 2011, showed more specific suggestions of ways to improve hunting and better ways of promoting and marketing the resource and industry. Some of these ideas are good but will not happen without some money. Where that will come from is anyone’s guess.

It is my opinion that with this Task Force focusing the blame on the economy and that nonresident hunters are being told or are hearing bad things about a depleted deer herd, they are avoiding the real reasons why hunters aren’t coming to Maine.

It may be disconcerting to hear from the press and others, like myself, that Maine’s deer herd is in trouble but to stop talking about the truth will do nothing to correct the problem. The Task Force suggests that more positive talk should be made about all the good things Maine and MDIFW are doing for the deer. I and a few tens of thousands of other hunters would like nothing better. Right now, hearing a lot of talk, with the only actions being formulation of just another task force, isn’t going to alter the negative press. Results will do that. Sportsmen want results!

Tom Remington

I gave Roxanne Quimby the benefit of the doubt in an earlier article I wrote in which I pointed out that Quimby had failed in her bedside manner since becoming a wealthy land baron and now that she needs the support of the Maine people to build her a national park, she is struggling to get it. The benefit I gave her was as it relates to how she treated Maine residents concerning access to her land. We are now finding out, Quimby has serious ill perceptions of Maine people and the lifestyle’s they choose to live.

Quimby, a self-made multimillionaire and co-founder of Burt’s Bees, used the success of her entrepreneurial skills to amass wealth. With that wealth, she invested in real estate, some of which involved several tens of thousands of timberland in Maine. As are the rights of any landowner, she limited access to that land and evicted camp owners who had maintained leases with the previous landowners. In short, she angered a lot of people.

Quimby has a dream of giving away 70,000 acres of her land for a national park. Some see this as a good thing and some see it as bad, and not in the best interest of the Maine people. In order for Ms. Quimby to get her park she has to convince the Maine legislature that it’s a good idea and consequently she has to entice the Maine residents themselves.

Having already angered a healthy population of the state, Quimby is reported to have had several unbecoming things to say about Maine and the people in an interview she did with Forbes. The Bangor Daily News covers the story.

Her list of grievances with Maine include: calling Maine a welfare state, the people obese, and too old. She describes the lumbering industry as: “a very tight-knit group of industry people who own, manage and call the shots over ten million acres of land”. In addition she says that the wood products industry as a whole as a failure and poorly run, and “they’re in complete denial”. She described a certain percentage of the population as “oxycontin abusers”, as well as, “tone deaf” to the environment. She even went so far as to attempt to evaluate Maine’s schools, in particular the town of Millinocket near where much of her land exists, saying the town has “trouble keeping schools open”, and that Millinocket schools are “a total economic disaster”.

It certainly puzzles me why anyone who feels this way about Maine would spend their money investing in it. She probably had similar feelings about Maine when she moved her Burt’s Bees business out of Maine to North Carolina.

The Bangor Daily News article projects Quimby as having nothing good to say about the state of Maine at all. I couldn’t care less actually. Quimby owns land and she can do what she wishes with it within the laws the rest of us must abide by. She can give it away, sell it, develop it or anything else she chooses. She can prohibit people from accessing her land or share it only with those she hand selects. That’s her business. She can dump on the Maine people and call them anything she wants. She can offer bribes to win support for her park, again that’s her business.

But you cannot act this way and expect that when you need Maine people’s support you’ll have it.

For those who might not know, Roxanne Quimby was hand picked by President Barack Obama to sit on the Board of Directors for the National Park Service. Perhaps Obama sought out someone who thinks like he does. If you will recall that during the presidential campaign of 2008, Barack Obama, in a speech he made before what he must have thought was private, called the people of Pennsylvania bitter people stating: “And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy toward people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

To me, Roxanne Quimby’s statements about Maine people are very similar to those made by Barack Obama. Coincidentally, Obama lost Pennsylvania in the primaries that year because of his nasty, elitist and snide comments about the people there.

For a woman scrambling around looking for support for her national park, she has once again reinforced her isolation and driven a deeper divide between her and the Maine people.

Tom Remington

*Editor’s Note* Most outdoor sportsmen are familiar with the antics of the Natural Resources Defense Council. They are not our friends and do little in the way of conservation and everything they can to destroy our heritage, our freedoms and the decades of real conservation hunters and all outdoor sportsmen have invested in.

In the press release below, we see that Major League Baseball has teamed up with the Natural Resources Defense Council in order to better promote their radical and un-American agendas. I guess they pulled the wool of Baseball’s eyes…..or did they? If you think Major League Baseball has chosen a wrong partner to promote their radical agendas during baseball playoffs, contact Major League Baseball and let them know you didn’t know their organization was a political action group.

From the National Center for Public Policy Research:

Washington, D.C. – Major League Baseball’s relationship with a group of environmental extremists is drawing criticism from experts at the National Center for Public Policy Research, who believe that taking good care of the environment, like baseball, should be a uniting factor, instead of a divisive one.

“MLB’s partnership with the radical Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) undermines what should be a goal of bringing Americans together for a clean environment,” according to Jeff Stier, director of the National Center for Public Policy Research’s Risk Analysis Division.

“Conservation is as American as baseball, but MLB has gone into foul territory by partnering with the group that started one of the most memorable unfounded junk-science campaigns in a generation, the alar scare, which in 1989 caused Americans to think apple pie could cause cancer. To this day, the NRDC promotes unscientific scares that hurt job-creating industries and consumers alike,” says Stier.

The NRDC’s initiatives tend to be divisive, even partisan, campaigns. In a September 28 online issue briefing it urges the defeat of Congressional proposals intended to reduce regulatory barriers to job creation, claiming, “the House Republican Leadership has declared war on public health and the environment.”

“You don’t have to be a Tea Party member,” says Jeff Stier, “to be offended by the NRDC’s bogus allegation that ‘the Tea Party agenda is hazardous to your health.’”

Major League Baseball, which partnered with the NRDC to show a public service announcement narrated by Robert Redford during the playoffs, leaves the public with the dubious impression that the NRDC is a group that baseball fans should support.

“If Major League Baseball wants to tout responsible environmental practices, it could have done so with an inclusive organization, or on its own,” says Stier, who is a veteran monitor of false, misleading and/or harmful health claims by radical activist groups. “The PSA, of course, excludes the strident language and rancid politics otherwise employed by NRDC. But the ad,” says Stier, “amounts to a free fundraising campaign for a group that a large percentage of baseball fans, regardless of their political affiliation, would abhor if they understood the group’s true radical agenda.”

Stier, a long-time New York Yankees season ticket holder, is particularly disappointed that “an extremist organization is given the opportunity to bask in the goodwill of what should be America’s non-partisan pastime.”

“The National Center for Public Policy Research today calls on Major League Baseball to immediately cease running the NRDC PSA. If privately-owned major league baseball clubs want to install solar panels in stadiums they own, commit to recycling, or encourage their fans to do so, good for them,” said National Center President Amy Ridenour, a Pirates fan. “But partnering with an organization that routinely slanders tens of millions of Americans is an insult to those Americans and to all fans who don’t share the NRDC’s extreme agenda. Unless Major League Baseball plans to recast itself as a political party, and a left-wing one at that, it should withdraw from this partnership.”

(Columbus, Ohio) If you feel you are being squeezed as a hunter or angler, you are not alone. More and more hunters, anglers, recreational shooters, and trappers are facing more restrictive laws, less access, reduced opportunities, and fewer options.

The restrictions and attacks have occurred at the local, state and the national levels. Much of this has been caused by subversive laws passed in part because of back-door politics and deep funding by the animal rights lobby. Among these groups that are working against YOU are the Humane Society of the United States, PETA, ASPCA, Center for Biological Diversity and many others.

But help is on the way!

Thanks to the newly formed Sportsmen’s Issue Defense Fund (SIDF), developed by the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance (USSA), the future of hunting and angling looks much brighter. The SIDF was launched during a recent USSA board meeting in Columbus, Ohio.

This fund will provide the “on-the-ground” dollars necessary to initiate efforts to protect the rights of sportsmen and sportswomen from attacks. The SIDF will support direct lobbying, grassroots coalition building, ballot issue campaigning, and legislative and government relations. In short, it’s a working fund, or war chest, designed to insure the future of hunting, angling, trapping, and recreational shooting across America.

“Every year I have been involved with the USSA, the animal rights lobby has attacked our hunting heritage,” said Mason Lampton, vice-chairman of the USSA’s board of directors. “This year is no different as we’ve seen no signs that they are letting up. As history is my judge, we will not let up either.”

This fund will work in many ways and at many levels. It will defend against local dog laws affecting sporting dog owners and breeders, against trapping restrictions, against efforts to reduce hunting seasons, against unnecessary lead sinker and traditional ammunition restrictions, fishing-focused issues, plus other issues as they arise. As the anti-hunting forces are planning their next move and securing the funds to push their agendas, the SIDF is a chance to build a wall of protection against these attacks.

It’s important to note that all sportsmen and women will benefit from this unified fund that will pool financial resources for the defense of our outdoor heritage. The SIDF will draw resources from the entire sportsmen community and provide the strongest –and most immediate—defense for each facet of our hunting heritage.

“The SIDF will provide immediate seed money whenever and wherever the animal rights lobby attacks our great hunting heritage,” continued Lampton. “Whether in the states, in Washington D.C., or at the ballot.”

The SIDF fund is open for support by all sportsmen and women.

Fighting for our heritage is not cheap. State and national campaigns are expensive to launch and carry out. The SIDF goal is to secure $1 million to ensure funding is available at a moment’s notice to defend all hunting, fishing, recreational shooting and trapping activities. This is an on-going fund that sportsmen and women across America are urged to donate generously in their defense.

This SIDF fund needs your input immediately. The time is now as a hunting community to circle the wagons to defend the smallest segments of hunters, trappers, shooters, and anglers. If smaller segments of hunters and anglers are forced out, you could be the next group in the sights of the anti-hunting and animal rights lobby. The anti- forces are already whittling away your rights, access, opportunities and options. A fully funded SIDF’s mission is to turn back these attacks. Donate now!

“We must ban together, pool all our resources, and stand up for our sport, our heritage, our fight!” concluded Lampton.

Sportsmen and women can donate directly to this effort at: www.ussportsmen.org/donate.

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To some, Roxanne Quimby is the quintessential success story. A kind of rags to riches story of a woman creating a product popular with consumers and growing from a kitchen business to a multimillion dollar enterprise. She sells her business and begins making other investments. Is this not capitalism at its finest? But is success all about how much money you can earn?

Roxanne Quimby has been a bundle of controversy and hypocrisy at least since becoming wealthy. While taking full advantage of our American capitalist society to make her fortune, Quimby has gone about her business seemingly to deny others of the same thing she took advantage of. At least to some degree.

Her investments included a systematic approach toward purchasing large tracts of land, mostly in the Baxter State Park area of Maine. This action in and of itself exemplifies life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness; perhaps the ultimate in the expression of individual rights and the freedom to pursue those rights while seeking the independence most needed to actualize true freedom. For this, nobody can fault Roxanne Quimby. She is a self-made person. How American is that?

What was not perceived as American were her actions after purchasing her large tracts of land. Maine is a unique place. Much of the northern two-thirds of the state is mostly owned by large timber companies and/or private investors in large tracts of land. This was accomplished years ago in an effort to preserve those lands for timber harvest. For many, many years the tradition has been for these large landowners to permit access to their land for recreation and in some cases, leases were sold in order that Maine citizens could construct camps in some locations on timber company lands. All of this attributed to a lifestyle that few others in this country could relate to.

One could easily conclude that the timber companies understood the value of maintaining a friendship with the Maine people.

Quimby started her business in Maine and as it grew, she left the state with her business and moved it to North Carolina. This move upset some people and was the beginning of a rocky relationship between Ms. Quimby and the state of Maine.

When Roxanne Quimby began buying up land, she also began a systematic shutting down of access to it. She gated and barricaded roads frequently used by hunters, fishermen, trappers, hikers, snowmobilers, ATV rider, etc. She even evicted any camp owners who held leases on the land where their camps sat. There have been, in some cases, reports that some of these cabins where burned to the ground.

While well within her rights to do so, Quimby instantly was disliked for her actions. After all, this isn’t the ideal way to win friends and influence people. In a short period of time she destroyed part of what Maine people had perceived as part of their heritage. One cannot expect to have many friends when they choose to act in this manner.

In an interview with Downeast Magazine a few years ago, oddly, Quimby stated that nobody should be able to own land. She considers land to be something that should be “owned” by everyone; a pseudo “Animal Farm” approach. How bizarre in actuality. A person takes advantage of a free enterprise system, exploits our capitalistic approaches to wealth and uses it to buy up land in order to prohibit people from enjoying that land. If someone was a true believer in common law land ownership, she certainly has an odd way of expressing it.

The saga continues. Having angered large masses of Maine people, for whatever her motives Quimby appeared to be reaching out to mend some fences and create opportunities for limited access to some of her land. Several individuals and groups fell for her deceptions. They began speaking of Roxanne Quimby in terms of how she has been misunderstood and that she doesn’t really want to alienate herself from the rest of Maine, etc. How wrong!

Not knowing all the back door deals with President Barack Obama, he nominated Roxanne Quimby to sit on the board of directors of the National Park Service. Most Mainers are aware of the efforts of groups seeking to turn much of northern Maine into a wilderness park and most have made the assumption Quimby would be a part of that. That effort also sees little support in Maine……so far.

It was shortly after Quimby won her appointment to the National Park Service, that she announced she would like to donate 70,000 acres of her land in remote northern Maine for a National Park. To accomplish that, Quimby needs the support of the Maine people. She’s not getting it and why would anybody be surprised that she isn’t?

I don’t think Maine people are much different than people in general. Good, honest people want to work with other good, honest people. As I stated before, Quimby bought her land fair and square. It became hers to do with as she saw fit within the laws of the land. She made her decisions, some of which was to embitter the Maine people by shutting off their access and burning down their camps. And now she needs their help? Perhaps, Ms. Quimby should have thought of that before she became an island unto herself.

When Quimby appeared to be mending some fences, she and members of several snowmobile clubs reached a limited agreement on access over her land for snowmobile trails. These are trails that are part of the ITS that existed before Quimby bought the land.

Now realizing that she sees little support for her national park, she’s scrambling to find help. She has continued to woo over a handful of idealistic hopefuls who are convinced all of Quimby’s actions are honorable but her latest actions have pushed many back to the reality of who Roxanne Quimby really is.

In an attempt to garner support anyway she can, she has resorted to bullying and a divide and conquer approach. She has notified the snowmobile clubs that if they will support her efforts for a national park, in exchange, she will give them a 5-year agreement to use her land for snowmobile trail access.

If Roxanne Quimby had any understanding of why she can’t get support for her national park, the last thing she would be doing is attempting to bully Maine people. And why a measly five year deal?

Quimby needs friends and has few. Confucius said, “have no friends not equal to yourself”. Perhaps Barack Obama is her friend as they may be equals but Ms. Quimby has isolated herself in Maine and now that she needs their help, she has to resort to undesirable tactics to get her way. How unfortunate.

As with Aesop’s “Why the Bat has no Friends”, Ms. Quimby has wings but no beak. Without a beak, she doesn’t look like a bird and with wings, doesn’t look like a mammal.

An island.

*Update* September 29, 2011, 10:40 a.m.

According to the Bangor Daily News, Roxanne Quimby has purchased another 11,000+ acre parcel of land near Baxter and land where she proposes her national park. In the article it says Quimby: “will allow hunting, snowmobiling and other traditional uses on the land for one year.” This offer on this new parcel comes after attempted bribery of a five year deal for snowmobilers on the land she wants the park to be on.

More information on this can be found at this link.

Tom Remington