August 9, 2012
There is no combination of joy and pride that can begin to convey the humbling honor of having your child succeed beyond a parent's dreams for them. He did this on his own.
Ric Frost
George Washington Welcomes New Chief Petty Officers
By By Lt. Cmdr. James Stockman
July 4, 2012
Land and Water USA - Demands accountability of eco groups "co-managing" forests with feds! - Click here for Economic Impacts of Wild Earth Guardians Litigations on Local Communities
May 23, 2012
Pyramid Lake, NV
Land And Water USA Policy Research Analyst Ric Frost with Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval. Governor Sandoval presented the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe for winning a tourism award. In Indian country, Pyramid Lake took the prize. Located within the Paiute reservation about 40 miles northeast of Reno, the lake is one of the largest natural lakes in Nevada and is the biggest remnant of ancient Lake Lahontan. Read the story, click here.
March 3, 2012
Land Trust or Land Mine? By Ric Frost
March 1, 2012
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS! Don't let government employees bully you! If you have property, get into a habit of requesting that each person who works on and or wants access to your property, fill out and sign the Property Admittance Agreement.
If the person is a government employee, you have the right to demand they fill out and sign the Public Servants Questionnaire. Public Servants Questionnaire
"The EPA, DOI, ESA, or any American agency, has to get court permission to enter your property - if you do not allow access when asked. They are no different than any other law agency, and are not above the law. If Congress does not explicitly state in the Act- it supersedes any other existing Act or Law- then the provisions of the Act are to be implemented concurrent with all other Laws. In every act dealing with the environment Congress put the language 'concurrent with all other laws', not 'this act rescinds all other laws;" and this includes trespass!" Ric Frost
February 19, 2012
Hikers, Loggers, Grazing Prices and C.E.'s By Ric Frost 2006 - When the Washington Post interpreted a Government Accounting Office (GAO) report, they wrote: “the program that charges ranchers a fee to graze their cattle on public land . . . loses [the government] $123 million a year.” The article then quoted a variety of antigrazing advocates. What the GAO report actually does say is that ranchers do not have ‘exclusive access to the federal lands, which are managed for multiple purposes or uses.” IT also outlines the formula used to set grazing fees, which includes allowance for the work the rancher does to maintain the area. Click here.
January 30, 2012
Questions about Conservation Easements and Land Trusts - Are You Asking the Right Questions about Conservation Easements or Purchased Development rights?
by RICHARD LEE FROST, M.S. - Former Policy Analyst New Mexico State University
October 31, 2011
Restricting land through Conservation Easements - in the name of "protecting agriculture" - does not protect agriculture... By Ric Frost - Former Policy Analyst New Mexico State University , Published October 2, 2003
August 29, 2011
ESA May Not Supersede Any Existing Law By Ric Frost
August 17, 2011
This is a classic example of how perceptions will drive regulations to a point of being the detrimental environment under which cultures collapse. Click here for a paper written back in 1997 attempting to explain [through an anthropological perspective] the how and why civilizations respond to natural events by creating regulations that then foster the collapse. It was written at a time I did not fully appreciate the extent or the motives behind those promoting the agendas that are now destroying our economic viability, so please forgive my [then] politically neophyte conclusion.
After going through their decade long fires of condemnation and their covert actions to destroy my economic and environmental policy analyst career at the university where I used to work, my understanding today would not have yielded the same generous conclusion. Ric Frost
August 2, 2011
Something old talking about something new ... As I See It By Lee McCain (nom de plume of Ric Frost)
8-31-1999 for Range Magazine
June 22, 2011
EPA Gunning For Absolute Control Over Every Drop Of Water In America! Please read this regulation and get your head around what is going on here.mIf you don't know about this, the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers are making a huge push to change the Constitutional definition of "Waters of the United States". If you don't know what that is, you'd better get educated and fast. This regulation will give ABSOLUTE AND TOTAL CONTROL OVER EVERY DROP OF WATER AND CONVEYANCE SYSTEMS INCLUDING IRRIGATION DITCHES! It totally removes any definition of property rights to water and DOES NOT provide compensation for "property takings" as provided for under either the 5 or 14th Amendment. Click here by Ric Frost
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Those Dastardly Conservation Easements
I've always contended that we cannot continue agriculture much longer in this country as practically none of our youth are wanting to learn how or are willing to carry on a family business, given the flight from agricultural to urban occupations. Too many kids have watched their parents and grand parents fight weather, market fluctuations, draconian government agency regulations, economic hardships, environmental lawsuits, NAFTA and GATT programs allowing foreign producers to sell in American markets below our production costs while blocking access to their markets and much more just to maybe at best a 3% return on their investment and hard work. If the ag-industry does not step up to the plate and make an effort to preserve private rural enterprises, these land trusts will cultivate these young farmers and instill in them the CE/PDR land trust mindset away from all Constitutional base private property and private business concepts. This paves the way for the Federal gov't. to use Federal Agency Nexus now and into the future to impose ESA and other habitat restrictions on private Commercial Enterprise towards the Wildlands Project goals.
I'm just sayin'.
Ric Frost
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June 13, 2011
America! Up In Bureaucrat Smoke! Why did the bureaucrats ignore forest fire warnings? By Ric Frost - Former Policy Analyst New Mexico State University - Testimony provided on New Mexico’s Forest Fire Situation - Just One Match - An easy way to destroy New Mexico
May 28, 2011
Vote NO on the Conservation Easement Incentive Act - Are You Asking the Right Questions about Conservation Easements or Purchased Development rights? By Ric Frost - Former Policy Analyst New Mexico State University
May 27, 2011
WATER. Abstract: The first of a continuing series. The Agricultural Value Of Elephant Butte Irrigation Water In Do_A Ana And Sierra Counties by Ric Frost
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When passing laws, Congress recognizes that to pass laws diametrically opposed to each other will create legal chaos. So they are created within the concept of pari materia, they create new laws with the intent of being read with other existing laws. The ESA was not created with the intent of standing alone or to override other existing laws. When created, the Congress did not declare that the ESA would supersede any existing law. One law cannot override another law unless Congress specifically declares it to do so. - Ric Frost
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August 14, 2010
We can make this discussion (glacier ice melt/global warming) go away overnight once we make the public aware of what happens to a glass full of iced tea. Does the level in the glass change when the ice melts?
The planet is confined and restricted as to what things physically exist here. The planet is just a large glass of salty water with a bunch of large ice cubes at the top and bottom. The amount of water on the planet is finite so melting glaciers is not adding anything. So if all of that ice melts, is it going to really change anything in the glass?
Think about that combination for a minute and let it sink in...Ric Frost
__________________________________________I find it interesting that through all these years of words on "farmland protection", not once has any of these landtrust folks EVER discussed promoting or protecting the farm management education and market system here in America! If we do not promote, enhance and educate future farmers in our youth, it means nothing to "protect farmland" if there is no one around that knows how to work it, manage the business or has an ingrained interest in building a life through a rural lifestyle. Especially when our national policy has been, for so many years through GATT & NAFTA, bent on supporting foreign farmers below our production costs. Ric Frost
Ric
Excellent point!
I can not recall any efforts by LTs here in Virginia, or other areas, along those lines.
I do not recall ever reading an article about the average age of US farmers/ranchers decreasing.
It would be interesting to check recent statistics, but it seems the average age is creeping higher each year.
The young person is not inclined to agriculture for a number of reasons, including the harmful intervention of government--GATT-NAFTA you mention, etc.
An interesting, related fact is the nationwide scarcity of large animal vets. Most vet school graduates go for lucrative small animal practice.
Doctoring a cow during a midnight snowstorm at 20 below is too much like work and the pay is lousy. A farmer doesn't have big bucks.
I suspect the average age for rural, large animal vets is going up too.
Free market system, private property, work, sweat, risk and profit are alien concepts for our LT friends.
Leo M. Schwartz
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March 28, 2009
GNL Contributing Educator - Ric Frost - Cui-ui sucker fish
February 10, 2009
What's Fair? by Ric Frost
February 29, 2008
The Spotted Owl sees nothing but beetles and fire!
Good Neighbor is proud to announce: “The Montane Meadow and Open Area Encroachment in the Lincoln Forest, Sacramento Grazing Allotment.” This compilation took 6 years of research, by Meadows Project Principal Ric Frost, along with colleagues Casey Roberts, Garrett Hyatt and John Fowler. “Here is the first report of its kind, based on empirical evidence, that the environmental Spotted Owl lawsuits have caused the catastrophic fuel load conditions in our forested areas. I'm certain if these same study methodologies were applied to the other forests where like lawsuits have shut down timber management, we would find the same conclusions, “ said Ric Frost in a note to Good Neighbor.
November 27, 2007
As I See It By Lee McCain (nom de plume of Ric Frost) 8-31-1999 for Range Magazine
November 26, 2007
Piping Plover
Summer 2007
Thinking Outside The Corral - Another Way To Learn
Spring 2007
Environmental Process and Agricultural Economic Impact
Spring 2007
Just One Match - An Easy Way To Destroy New Mexico
The Endangered Species Act, National Environmental Policy Act, and You by Ric Frost, Policy Analyst
Ric Frost
"Ah, the view to convince the IRS to view sheds as a taxable value upon lands not owned by the entity getting the tax benefit .......... the view to think "I can impose my will, through a CE, upon any neighbor within my view" .............. and using your viewshed to stop any land activity not in align with your view..."
Ric Frost
