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U.S. Scientists Try to Connect Wild Areas from Coast to Coast

(Note: Connect the dots that put many global control entities -- land, water and mineral resources and people -- all in the same bed.)

September 13, 1999

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Idyllwild, California - Scientists working with a Tucson-based organization are trying to stitch together wild areas from the Pacific to the Atlantic in an effort to give animals room to roam. The Los Angeles Times reported that the 8-year-old group, which calls itself the Wildlands Project, is attempting to lay the groundwork for a system of wilderness areas clear across the North American continent.

The latest move in the initiative was at an April meeting of the California Wilderness Coalition at the University of California Riverside James Reserve.

According to the article, several of the state's best-known conservation scientists -- from five University of California campuses, the Smithsonian Institution, the Nature Conservancy and other organizations - came to the meeting.

The article said all of the participants saw the effort as an attempt to fend off massive extinction and save the natural world to which they have devoted their careers.

The LA Times said the Wildlands Project is already involved in conservation efforts from the Mexican border to Appalachia to Maine to Canada.

They believe current wildlife preserves are too small and scattered to allow natural processes, such as the roaming of native animals.

Such "land islands," like isolated national parks, can promote genetic inbreeding and speed up extinction, according to the group.

Associated Link: More on the Wildlands Project http://www.wildlandsproject.org/htm/summary.htm -- no longer a working link; see instead http://www.twp.org/cms/page1001.cfm and http://www.twp.org/cms/index.cfm?group_id=1000

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