There is a similar movement in northern New England in Maine and New Hampshire called the “North Woods” movement. It was also started in the early 90s by the hippy “back to the earth” founder of the “Bert’s Bees” company that made lip balm and other cosmetics. Roxanne Quimby is her name. She made it her personal mission to buy up any and all timber land with her profit. She then later sold the company to some huge multi-national company for billions and dumped her capital gains into her non-profit to avoid taxes to continue her mission. She now goes across the country and world raising funds to help her buy up more lands.

These lands are taken out of timber and pulping production. This is decimating the local economy that relies on the forestry industry for a lot of jobs. Not just in the mills (lumber or paper), but the harvesting and trucking crews, and all the diesel, hydraulics and small engines repair crews that service this equipment. All the crews that are cleaning up slash and replanting trees… all that is gone. Plus much of this land was open to the public (or leased) for hunting and snowmobiling. Now it is off limits. The tree huggers don’t want Bambi to be stalked and murdered on their land, and 2stroke engines have a huge environmental impact… only snow shoeing/skiing on those trails now. Small farmland plots are planted to trees to restore the environment. Again the local tax base is decimated and locals see their taxes go up again accelerating the process.

At one point they wanted to make it into the largest National Park (2x Yellowstone) but have settled on a National Monument for now. I think Arron’s 90k acres.

All of these are tax payer funded (indirectly) de-development regressive movements to drive people off of the land and into urban centers to be more readily controlled and dependent.

Coming to a rural area near you!