WESTERN HERITAGE ALLIANCE AUDIO/VISUAL PRESENTATIONS
The following short presentations were
created by the Western Heritage Alliance. We hope you will find these
presentations informative and helpful in understanding the complex issues
related to Federal Wilderness designation.
This
presentation presents information obtained from a
National Park Study and a
Department of Interior
Threat Assessment report about the devastating
impacts of designated federal Wilderness on our country's southern border.
View the
video commentary
from
Congressman
Bishop (Utah) regarding the information in this NPS and DOI reports.
This
presentation provides an overview of what is involved in a Federal
Wilderness designation, separating the "spirit" of wilderness
from the reality of the legislative designation of wilderness.
This presentation takes a high level look at the impacts and ramifications
that result from Federal Wilderness designation.
This
presentation goes through a very brief history of ranching, and looks at
several of the ways that a Federal Wilderness designation impacts ranching
operations, rangeland and wildlife conservation. This presentation
will give the viewer a much better understanding of why the ranching
community is so concerned about proposed Federal Wilderness designation for
lands that have active grazing allotments and existing ranching operations.
People for Preserving Our
Western Heritage, The New Mexico Farm Bureau
and Crystal Clear Productions of New Mexico
produced a documentary titled
HOW THE WEST WAS LOST
THE FALLACY OF FEDERAL WILDERNESS
This
video was originally recorded in August of 2007, and was developed
as a rebuttal to specific proposals for Federal Wilderness
designations
in Dona Ana County, New Mexico. It was updated in 2010.
How The West Was Lost
High Speed
Connection
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them on YouTube or Vimeo.
We also have two short clips
on the realities of Wilderness designation:
Commercial Clip 1 High Speed Connection
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difficulty viewing the videos here, try viewing them on
YouTube.
Commercial Clip 2 High Speed Connection
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difficulty viewing the videos here, try viewing them on
YouTube.
These videos are also
available on YouTube or Vimeo.
Special Thanks go out to the New Mexico
Farm and Livestock Bureau, Erik Ness and Randy Brown with Crystal Clear
Productions of NM for their efforts.
PRESENTATION TO LAS CRUCES CITY
COUNCIL 01/29/08
The
audio and video of the Las Cruces City Council meeting from Tuesday, 1/29/08
is
available on the city's website. Tom Cooper and Frank DuBois made a
presentation to the Council on our proposed legislation.
AUDIO/VISUAL PRESENTATIONS
We have developed some
audio/visual presentations which
provide an overview of the complex issues related to Federal Wilderness
designation, and the impacts of a Federal Wilderness designation on
ranching operations.
