Straight Talk: Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area

OZARKS PROPERTY RIGHTS CONGRESS MEETING
February 17 -7:00 p.m. Vaught’s Family Restaurant
West of Gainesville, Missouri  on Highway 160
On meeting nights,
food is served from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Doreen Hannes will hit the highlights and answer questions about the proposed Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area
The groundwork is laid. The Feasibility Studies are complete. Time is short. 

Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area is an attempt to establish governmental authority over the Ozarks region. While the proponents of the Heritage Area designation may deny this, excerpts from Ozark Action, Inc sponsored feasibility study and National Park Service documents tell a different story. OPRC will present these and  let you decide what their intentions are. Documents (700+ pages), obtained only by a freedom of information act (FOIA) request, after weeks of waiting for voluntarily shared documents, show that they had fear of property rights advocates getting access to these documents. That fear was substantiated. Promoters have taken pains to hide the facts about this program. They have quietly gone about ‘’selling” the ”program”, telling unsuspecting County Commissioners and Community leaders how this program will help save our ‘’stories”, market local products, & bring busloads of tourists to their area.

Documents detailing what has happened  to landowners in other Heritage Areas do not paint a pretty picture. Once the National Park Service hands down its “guidelines,” property rights go out the window. And there is no “opting-out.” Steve Hodapp ( formerly worked with the National Park Service  to create the NHA program and was point person for NHA legislation on the House Resource Committee) said,  ”It (opting-out) is a physical and geographical impossibility. One is either inside the boundaries of a National Heritage Area, or outside the boundaries. And if one is within the boundaries, and there is a management plan that prescribes, indeed mandates, programs and activities to protect, enhance, and manage natural and scenic values within the National Heritage Area—in one way or another private landowners are not goint to be allowed to convert their cornfield to a pig farm or paint their silo purple with yellow stripes.”  From The Virginia Land Rights Coalition website.  NHA Testimony from Robert J. Smith    http://www.vlc.org/articles/168.html

These are times that call for all who care about their rights, to become educated and knowlegeable on  issues that seek to restrict the freedom to live their lives as free Americans.
Please come to the meeting and bring someone with you.

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