http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2010/09/what-lone-voice-in-wilderness\
-sounds_05.html

      The Maine North Woods is the northern geographic area of the state of Maine
in the United States.

     It covers more than 3.5 million acres (14,000 km²) of top forest land in
north-western Maine. It includes western Aroostook and northern Somerset,
Penobscot, and Piscataquis counties. Much of the woods is currently owned by the
timber corporations, including Seven Islands Land Company, Plum Creek, Maibec,
Orion Timberlands and Irving timber corporations. Ownership changes hands quite
frequently and is often difficult to determine.

     Its main products are timber for pulp and lumber, as well as a thriving
hunting and outdoor recreation economy.

     Included within its boundaries are two of the most famous wild rivers of the
Northeastern United States: the St. John and the Allagash. The North Maine Woods
completely surrounds the Allagash Wilderness Waterway.

     Wildlife

     The Maine North Woods are predominantly forestland consisting of mixed
northern hardwoods and conifers, much of it artificially planted after
harvesting by the various landowners. The major tree species are sugar maple,
American beech. balsam fir, quaking aspen, Northern white cedar, red spruce,
white spruce, black spruce, yellow birch, paper birch, and Eastern white pine.
The area is also home to white-tailed dear, moose, black bears, bobcat, coyotes,
red fox, fisher, otter, mink, marten, weasel, beavers, porcupine, muskrat, red
squirrel, Snowshoe Hare, ruffed grouse, Spruce Grouse, loons and gray jays.
There are official hunting seasons for the grouse, deer and bears, with a
state-run lottery system for awarding moose-hunting licences. Char including
squaretail, togue, and isolated populations of blueback trout are the best known
fish of the rivers and lakes. Black fly, mosquito, deer fly and midge
populations can be significant from late spring through early autumn. The Maine
North Woods are also home to the endangered Canada lynx, bald eagle and the
Furbish lousewort, a rare plant that is found only in the St. John river valley.
Animals which have disappeared from the woods during European settlement include
caribou and gray wolf. Status of the cougar is uncertain.

     Folklore

     Early 19th century logging of the Maine north woods employed native
Maliseet, English settlers from the Atlantic coast, French Canadians from the
Saint Lawrence River valley, and some unskilled laborers recruited from large
eastern cities. Unique mythology evolved in the remote logging camps from hazing
new employees or attempts by competing groups to dominate the resource
extraction labor market. Two birds held special significance. The relatively
tame gray jays would follow loggers through the woods in the hope of stealing
unwatched food, but were not harmed because they were believed to be the spirits
of deceased woodsmen. Some French Canadians would quit work if a white owl was
seen flying from a tree they were felling, for they believed it was a ghost who
would haunt them unless they left that part of the woods.

     Mythical creatures of the north woods:

     * Razor-shins was an immortal humanoid with sharp shin bones and a thirst
for liquor in the prohibition state of Maine. New employees were encouraged to
leave a jug of Nagor whiskey outside of the camp door on the night of the full
moon. If razor-shins emptied the jug by morning, he might use his razor-sharp
shinbones to fell a tree for the new man. But there were tales of new employees
caught in the woods by razor-shins and scalped or otherwise mutilated after
failing to offer the customary tribute.

     * Will-am-alones were squirrel-like creatures said to roll poisonous lichen
into small balls and drop them onto the eyelids or into the ears of sleeping
men. The lichen balls were reputed to cause headaches and visual hallucinations
the following day. The effects seemed most evident among men who had consumed
illegal liquor.

     * Windigo (or "Indian devil") was described as a huge, shadowy humanoid with
a voice like the moaning of the wind through the pine boughs, but known only by
his tracks through the snow. Each footprint was 24 inches (60 cm) long and
resembled a snowshoe imprint with a red spot in the center where blood had oozed
through a hole in his moccasin. Some feared to cross his tracks and claimed
looking upon Windigo would seal their doom.

     * Ding-ball was a cougar whose last tail joint was ball-shaped and bare of
hair and flesh. Ding-ball was fond of human flesh and would sing with a human
voice to lure the incautious out of their cabins at night where it waited in the
darkness to crack their skulls with its tail.

     Americans for a Maine Woods National Park, an interest group that includes
scientists, educators, environmentalists and celebrities, is pushing to turn a
as much as 3.2 million acres (13,000 km²), an area larger than Yellowstone and
Yosemite combined, into a national park.

     The proposed park is very controversial among residents within or adjacent
to the park's proposed borders. Many fear the dislocation of traditional
industries and recreational activities as a result of a park's creation. The
County Commissions from Aroostook, Piscataquis, and Somerset have voted to
oppose efforts to create a park. They are joined by Maine's Congressional
delegation, its governor and legislature. A local group, the Maine Woods
Coalition, was organized to oppose the effort. -- Wikipedia.

Folks,

I received the description below from the Old Guide a recent National Park
Service "listening" conclave about a proposed federal takeover of northern
Maine.

     The Feds came to Maine to "listen". They want to take over much of Maine for
a new North Woods National Park. They lined up a whole bunch of environmental
groups to testify in favor of it. A few of we property rights advocates
infiltrated the session and were actually scheduled to testify.

     I was one of the first to arrive about 1:45 and one of the last to leave. At
the end I was surrounded by three top officials from the Obama administration
who wanted to hear what I had to say because there were so few landowner
advocates in Bangor. I was able to expand on what I said in my prepared remarks.
There were five break-out sessions. (Divide and conquer.) I was in the "grey
room" as determined by the color of our folders when we checked in. There were
35 people in the room to testify and five feds up front. I was the ONLY advocate
for private landowners in the room! Years ago we called that a target rich
environment. I did not seek to lead off with my presentation. I waited until the
guy from RESTORE gave his presentation. When I gave mine I thought the RESTORE
guy and Ted Koffman of Maine Audubon were going to bust a blood vessel.

     Old Guide's presentation:

     Federal "Listening Session"
     September 2, 2010
     Bangor, Maine

     The Old Guide

     Welcome to Maine. Your announcement said you come to listen. Thank you for
your time.

     • What Works? – Please share your thoughts and ideas on effective strategies
for conservation, recreation, and reconnecting people to the outdoors?

     You ask what works. Private ownership works. The reason the environmental
industry likes Maine so much is that we private landowners have taken such good
care of it for the last four centuries. We are still taking good care of it.
However, in my lifetime we have lost great amounts of freedom. We used to be
able to build a boathouse IN the lake. Boathouses didn't hurt the lakes at all
and the fishing was better. We had a spruce budworm epidemic a quarter century
ago. We needed to salvage large amounts of dead and dying trees. The
environmental industry used that as an opportunity to attack Maine's landowners,
large and small. A photo appeared in our newspapers showing a vast clear cut.
The photo was taken in Siberia. It leads penthouse environmentalists in Boston
to think our forests are gone.

     In 1940 Maine had about 6,250,000 acres of pasture and cultivated ground.
Today we have just over a million. In my lifetime Maine has gained an average of
77,000 acres a year of forest. Yes, gained. That is over three townships every
year. Our forests are not gone. Those who say we are losing our forests simply
lie or are ignorant of the truth. Our forests are not "fragmented". We don't
need "wolf routes" to reconnect our forests. The addition of three townships of
forest each year has created a huge contiguous forest and the greatest new
carbon sequestration in the world. We private landowners did that.

     • Challenges – What obstacles exist to achieve your goals for conservation,
recreation, or reconnecting people to the outdoors?

     The obstacles are many, but the biggest obstacle we face is LURC and the
rules they invent. No other state has over half its land governed by an
unelected bunch of state functionaries, accountable to no-one. We don't get to
vote on these people or the rules they dream up to control us. They just impose
them.

     You folks are all high enough in the administration to realize there are
preparations and contingency plans being made in the event of civil strife in
our country. Just last Sunday your boss, President Obama spoke to the people of
New Orleans and honored them for their perseverance. We too have persevered. We
have been under a regime of discrimination, oppression and rural cleansing for
four decades. Just prior to April 19,1775 the Crown imposed such rules on
Americans. Those rules were called "The Intolerable Acts". Our forefathers
fought a war over them. Now, 235 years later, we have new intolerable acts. At a
state level listening session an employee of LURC asked if I thought we could
experience civil strife in our country. He was too young to remember Detroit,
South Watts and Atlanta in 1968. I answered him with a question; If we did have
civil strife in Maine, where would the members of LURC go? I say these things
because I was born before WWII and actually remember freedom. We want it back.
We are Americans. WILL persevere.

     • Tools – What additional tools and resources would help your efforts be
even more successful?

     Everybody likes clean air and clean water. Those are not issues. The real
issue in Maine is a vicious agenda of rural cleansing. The tools and resources
we could use are a state government that encourages economic growth instead of
stifling growth. Economic growth brings prosperity. The environmental industry
calls growth something else. They call it sprawl. They don't like growth or
prosperity.

     • Federal Government Role – How can the federal government be a more
effective partner in helping to achieve conservation, recreation and
reconnecting people to the outdoors?

     We don't need to be reconnected to the outdoors. We are an outdoor people
and have been connected to the outdoors all our lives - for many generations. We
could, however, use a little help building more recreational trails for
snowmobiles and ATVs. They are an important part of our economy since so much
manufacturing has left and the recreational sector could use a little stimulus
money. It's our money after all. Aside from that we don't need any federal
involvement. Oh, and we'd like the piece of the White Mountain National Forest
in Maine back. You could auction it off and use the proceeds for snowmobile and
ATV trails.

     Remember who we are. We are freedom loving Americans. Many of us have fought
for freedom in several countries. As Lord Percy said in his report back to
England after the battles of Lexington and Concord, "They are wise in the ways
of the woods and they know what they are about." We still know what we are about
today. We know who you are. Remember who we are, freedom loving Americans. It is
in your best interest.

     - - -

     We have been led down the road by the environmental industry for years and
following Chairman Mao's tenets of two steps forward, one step back. We are
supposed to be thankful when they don't take as much from us as they first
threatened. That is the behavior of a childish fraternity pledge. not a
freedom-loving American.

     I don't buy into that. You should have seen the shock when I advocated
building boathouses in the lakes and when I said we wanted that portion of the
White Mountain National Forest in Maine back. Those comments were what made the
administration leaders want to talk with me in the lobby when it was all over. I
guess the small bunch at the New Hampshire session ten days ago was more docile.

     I tell you, there were 15 people on the opposite side of the large round
table across from my side and I made eye contact with most. Their mouths were so
wide open in astonishment they looked like a bunch of guppies at feeding time.
They had never heard such ideas.

     No name calling. No histrionics, just facts.

     The Old Guide

http://westernrifleshooters.blogspot.com/2010/10/fibbies-git-your-guns.html

this order is for roughly 324 MILLION rounds. the FBI has about 32,000 employees
(including desk jockeys). about 10,000 rounds per employee. and you don't buy
ammo on stripper clips unless you have to re-fill magazines in a hurry. like
"they're shooting at us full that magazine so we can shoot back" in a hurry.

http://www.winchester.com/library/news/Pages/Winchester-Awarded-Contract.aspx

everyone remember this tidbit from last december?

200 million rounds of .40 ammo. divided by all ICE employees it comes out to
about 10,000 rounds per employee. or 2,000 per year for the length of the 5 year
contract.

these are not peacetime ammunition consumption rates.

would I be paranoid to think someone is stocking up for something?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWxRnK751MM&feature=player_embedded

so, according to justice breyer, rights are GEOGRAPHIC. so long as they exist
somewhere else, they can't be violated.

eventually there will be a 10X10ft area somewhere near washington DC that will
be a "free rights zone" where you can publish what you want, say what you want,
own a gun, require a warrant for a search, ect. but everywhere else these things
will be banned.

why near washington? because tyrants can't stand freedom they don't control.
justice breyer is ok with that. in his mind, so long as there is someplace you
can exercise your rights, it's all constitutional.

will someone please take a generator to mt.vernon? George Washington is spinning
so fast, we may as well get some electricity from it.

http://www.garnernews.net/view/full_story/11126408/article-Para-military-groups-\
help-strengthen-forces-?instance=secondary_sports_left_column

Para-military groups help strengthen forces
by Fred Bonner Fuquay Varina Independent

Several years ago I was taking part in a bass tournament in southern Florida and
we were surprised to see two well-equipped bass boats approaching us at high
speed. Pulling a quick maneuver they shot by our boat and threw a sheet of water
over us. I sat there dumbfounded at what had just sped by us. The bass fishing
machines were not colored in the usual gaudy colors and no fishing rods were to
be seen in the boats. They were painted in a dull camouflage pattern and mounted
on the bow of each boat was a 30-caliber machine gun manned by a gunner who was
also dressed in camo.

"What in the H—- was that," I asked my companion who hailed from a local bass
club. "That's just some of our local friends showing off their toys, he replied.
Their mounted machine gun is a legal, semi-automatic version of the old familiar
Browning gun and these guys are part of a para-military group that fancies
themselves as being a Red Neck Navy. Their group of ground troops is probably
hidden back there in the swamp laughing at us right now."

I'd never thought of it before but a bass boat could really be transformed very
easily into a formidable fighting machine somewhat smaller but reminiscent of
the swift boats that were used in the war in Vietnam. If a bass boat could be
outfitted with modern weaponry that could drop a deadly barrage of .30 caliber
ammo from one of those "mini-guns" along with a few well placed grenades fired
from a compact launcher, these boats would indeed be a force to be reckoned
with. It would only need a pilot to drive the boat and one gunner to man the
weaponry. If fired upon, the foam filled fiberglass hull of the boat would
absorb a lot of enemy fire and still keep going as long as nothing crippled the
outboard motor and the sailors manning the controls and guns were not disabled.

No wonder our U.S. Coast Guard favors requiring that all U.S. Registered
watercraft be equipped with transponders (like the airplanes have) to keep them
aware of the whereabouts of all our boats at all times. I can't imagine how many
bass boats are here in America these days and there are other boats that are
even more suited to being converted to defensive weapons if our country needed
them. If you think that a bass boat is fast and maneuverable think what one of
those heavy aluminum jet drive boats such as guides use up in Alaska could do.
Those boats can operate in inches of boulder-strewn water and are capable of
carrying some pretty heavy loads.

If fishermen could become a civilian navy, how effective do you think an "army"
of American hunters would be?

During the earlier days of WWII, Japan's highest-ranked naval officer, Isoruku
Yamamoto, when questioned about the possibility of Japan's invading the United
States was quoted as saying," You cannot invade the mainland United States.
There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass." Admiral Yamomoto was
educated at Harvard University and was well aware of our constitutional right to
keep and bear arms. He was also aware of how many experienced outdoorsmen and
hunters there were in this country and what kind of a guerrilla force these
Americans could become if called upon to defend our nation against a potential
invader.

Think about this for a minute. The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission
reports that during the 2009-2010 hunting year North Carolina has 245,650
licensed hunters in the state. Figures aren't available as to how many
unlicensed recreational shooters there are in our state, That in itself
constitutes a huge number of citizens who obviously are armed, well trained in
the safe and efficient use of guns and very adept at stealth in the woods.

The number of hunters in North Carolina is small when compared to some other
states. Our numbers pale in comparison to the 750,000 who are in the woods of
Pennsylvania. Michigan is reported to have 700,000 hunters in the fields every
year and a 250,000 hunters (close to the number here in North Carolina) are in
West Virginia. A somewhat conservative estimate of the total number of hunters
in America today is 23 million.

If you should even cut that estimated total number of licensed hunters in the
United States by half, and that number of hunters should become a volunteer
guerilla army of volunteers to fight off some invader, we would still be looking
a the largest army in the world. This isn't even considering the numbers of our
standing military and National Guard (The Army and Air National Guard combined
is approximately 12,000 personnel in N.C. ).

Americans fought the British by similar means during the Revolutionary War. The
Redcoats were bewildered by these "uncivilized" colonist who fought from behind
trees refusing to even form-up in the battle lines with which the British troops
were familiar. The Colonial Army of General Washington was composed of farmers,
woodsmen, fishermen and workers who fought for a common cause under the
leadership of the future President of the United States. Seldom wearing even a
common uniform, these early Americans were familiar with the land and waters and
fought a guerrilla war against the oppressor. We won! They lost.

This imaginary so-called local volunteer military composed of hunters and
fishermen is not some outlaw para-military group. It would be composed of expert
woodsmen who'd be fighting a common enemy after all other military forces have
failed.

With the Second Amendment to our Constitution guaranteeing our citizen's right
to individually keep and bear arms, America is one of the few countries in the
world with the capability to defend our borders if the occasion should ever
arise. Let's hope that this never happens.

Sunday, February 27, 2011 2:40 PM
Subject: public meetings on secure communities

Hi Folks,
It looks like the Governor is trying to backtrack on his promise to allow our
state and town law enforcement agencies to join Secure Communities, the free
program that automatically checks the fingerprints and notifies ICE of any
foreign nationals who are arrested in the Commonwealth.   Because so many groups
that oppose immigration law enforcement (even for criminal illegal aliens)
protested his announcement in December, he is holding an extended series of
"hearings" to give voice to community concerns.  Today's Globe ran an account of
the first meeting, held yesterday in Worcester.  (I happened to be in Worcester
yesterday for a tennis match, and if I had known, I definitely would have
attended to try to say a couple words about how important this program is!). 
Anyway, from this article it looks like it would really help if there was some
diversity of opinion at these meetings so that it does not appear as if the
overwhelming public opinion is in favor of protecting illegal alien criminals. 
I hope you will encourage any of your members to attend one of the future
meetings if they are interested.

Some new statistics I recently obtained from ICE to show why this program is
needed:  Every year, approximately 900,000 aliens are criminally arrested.  Each
year, 700,000 of them are released from jails, prison and probation, sometimes
because ICE doesn't have the capacity to process them, but more often it's
because ICE was never notified that the illegal alien was arrested.  As a result
ICE estimates that there are now 1.2 million criminal aliens at large within our
communities.  There is no good reason that I can think of to allow illegal
aliens who have committed crimes to remain in our communities when they have no
permission to be here in the first place.  Crime is not a job Americans won't
do.  The Governor needs to hear from people who think that he should allow our
law enforcement agencies to participate in this program – all he has to do is
sign the agreement ICE gave him back in September 2009, just like he promised he
would in December.  Please let me know if you'd like more information.  Best,
Jessica

Here's the Globe article: 
http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2011/02/27/state_begins_\
meetings_on_immigration_policy/?page=1 with the meeting schedule:

The Patrick administration announced meetings in the following locales:

Mass Bay Community College, Framingham, March 12, 2-4 p.m.

Lawrence, location to be determined, March 31, 6-8 p.m.

Waltham, location to be determined, April 16, noon-2 p.m.

Chelsea, location to be determined, April 28, 6-8 p.m.

Brockton, location to be determined, May 12, noon-2 p.m.

Lowell, location to be determined, May 26, 6-8 p.m.

New Bedford, location to be determined, June 11, noon-2 p.m.

Springfield, location to be determined, June 30, 6-8 p.m.

Boston, location to be determined, July 9, noon-2 p.m.
Also, here is some more information on the program from a Metro West News op-ed
I wrote in the fall:  http://www.cis.org/node/2317.

Here is the Fox 25 news coverage: 
http://www.myfoxboston.com/dpp/news/undercover/mass-delays-signing-up-for-immigr\
ation-program-20100923

And here are some great talking points written by Len Mead:

Illegal Immigration:  Three Minute Presentation for

"Public Comment" at Selectman/Alderman Meetings

Suggested Draft (457 words) by Len Mead November, 2010 mead1720@...



Hello, I'm Len Mead, 130 Milk Street Westborough.



My comments are about illegal immigration -- based on two seminars by Jessica
Vaughn, Director of Policy Studies for the non-partisan Washington Based Center
for Immigration Studies.



Currently it is estimated that there are 11 million illegals in our country. 
But there are 27 million struggling Americans out of work.  These unemployed
Americans and the thousands of high-skilled legal immigrant applicants wanting
to come here deserve more sympathy than illegals, it seems to me.



A few facts.  One out of ten prisoners in our jails are known illegals.  Most
illegals coming into our country now are sponsored by drug cartels that provide
them passage and then extort them further driving them into a life of crime once
here.   It now appears that the preferred method for Islamic terrorists to enter
our country is through Mexico, hiding behind the lack of enforcement of our
current laws.



Drug cartels supply fraudulent documentation to illegals by stealing our
children's and our citizen's social security numbers.  This allows illegals to
get jobs that should go to Americans.



Social security identity theft destroys the credit history and creates chaos
when the victim later tries to get a loan, get into college, get a job, or
receive social security benefits.



This brings me to the simple solution we can take in Westborough to solve these
problems.  That is, we must start enforcing our existing laws which prohibit
illegals from being employed.



When illegals can no longer work here, drive here, get mortgages, get free
healthcare, get schooling or welfare, they will return home.   In other words,
they will self deport themselves.



So let me suggest that you require all employers here in Westborough, to use the
free government services of E-Verify and Social Security Verification Service
(SSVS).



E-Verify shows an employer in 15 seconds by computer whether a newly hired
employee is eligible to work.  SSVS matches the entire payroll of businesses'
existing employees and identifies all who have valid numbers.



Non matching social security numbers most times identify an illegal.  Those
illegals should be fired and reported to the Immigration Service ICE) for
prosecution – they are taking jobs Americans need.  Current law prohibits a
business from knowingly employing illegals.



You, our elected leaders can require all Westborough employers to use E-Verify
and SSNVS.  You can require that any contractor or sub-contractor you employ use
these free services.



Lastly, you can require that any social benefits we taxpayers provide go only to
people who can prove they are US citizens.



If you take these enforcement steps, you will be protecting the rule of law,
motivating illegals here to self-deport and opening up job opportunities for
Americans who desperately need work in this recession.



Thank You.





Jessica M. Vaughan

Director of Policy Studies

Center for Immigration Studies

(508)346-3380

jmv@...

like all scorpions, progressives cannot divorce themselves from their stings.
they simply tell you, as we all drown, that it's "in their nature" and how "this
is for the good of everyone".

the rank-and-file WANT to be touchy-feel-good about themselves types... but
they're being led by people that don't have a problem with exterminating large
parts of the population to obtain their goals.

we've seen this before. every time progressivisim has been tried it has ended in
the mass extermination of the opposition.

so, progressives...how many of us are you prepared to kill for your socialist
utopia?

we won't quietly go to "re-education camps" that turn into death camps. there
will be a lot of loud sounds and blood. mostly yours.

which brings to mind a better question... how many of you progressives are
personally prepared to die for your socialist utopia?

high time to re-think where your leaders plan to place that stinger. if you try
to take us down, we will make damn sure you go down too.

5-gallon food grade buckets are $1.50 ea. with gasket lids
(had relish in them, so you'll need to wash them..but you should wash any bucket
like this anyways even if it was new)

220 liter barrels food grade with screw of top are $25
(had sesame or flax seeds in them. again, probably should be washed but you
should do that anyways)

rain barrels are $50
(made from the above barrels with screen top and spigot on the bottom)

let me know off-list if interested I will get you in touch with the person
selling them.

Allen