No they are not. Radical right-wing pundits are always trying to make organizations like BHA look bad so they can get their grubby little hands on public lands. They dissed the Wildlife Federation also. They did the same thing with Ducks Unlimited and Delta Waterfowl who were pushing for CRP around the wetlands. They wanted to end the CRP program because the land they wanted to buy for extraction/development was off limits for 15 years under CRP contracts. But, take a long trip to the other end of the political spectrum and you will find radical left-wing nuts who are pushing “The Buffalo Commons” movement. It seems too “kooky” to ever happen but millions of acres in some states are already in their possession.
The Buffalo Commons is a movement to create a vast nature preserve by returning 140,000 square miles of the Great Plains to native prairie, and by reintroducing the bison ("buffalo") wolves and grizzlies, that once roamed the shortgrass and long grass prairies. The movement’s goal is to acquire contiguous parcels of land in ten states: Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Texas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas. Montana has a good example of what is going. The following is from FOX news in 2022.
“The American Prairie (AP), a conservation project in Montana, has quietly scooped up more than 450,000 acres of land with the help of its billionaire donors and the federal government.
The little-known project aims to create the largest "fully functioning ecosystem" in the continental U.S. by stitching together about 3.2 million acres of private and public lands, according to the American Prairie Foundation, which founded the reserve more than 20 years ago. The group has recorded 34 transactions spanning roughly 453,188 acres of land throughout central Montana — much of which were once used for farming and grazing — since 2004 and continues to aggressively expand.
"Our mission is to assemble the largest complex of public and private lands devoted to wildlife in the lower 48," Pete Geddes, AP's vice president and chief external relations officer, told Fox News Digital in an interview. "For comparison, about 25% larger than Yellowstone."
Billionaire-funded eco group quietly taking farmland out of production in rural America
A little-known conservation project funded by billionaire moguls is slowly acquiring land made available for cattle grazing in an effort to create a "fully functioning ecosystem."
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