"Forest Service officials will evaluate the environmental impact of each cabin. Some will remain, others will have to be modified and some may no longer be allowed."

"'This is something that is being done nationwide,' said Forest Service spokeswoman Sherry Rollman."

"Many of the cabins were built 60 to 80 years ago, when there weren't many environmental standards."

"'Unfortunately, many [private cabins] were built in riparian zones, which is where they wanted to be right by the water,' Rollman said. 'Now, a lot of those areas are home to a lot of endangered species.' "
-- San Bernardino County Sun, July 28, 2005

As the viros continue their push to increase their power and to eliminate private property in rural Maine you can see your future by what they are doing elsewhere.  The news report below shows how viros entrenched in regulatory positions within the US Forest Service, where they use the power of government to enforce their own politics, are using the Endangered Species Act to force out cabin owners in California.

National Forests have been used to prevent private landownership in many parts of the country for over a century.   Instead of allowing private individuals to establish ownership in previously unknowned regions of the country -- as was properly done under the Homestead Act and the Mining Act -- the government has seized permanent control of vast areas of the nation, much of it designated as National Forests.

But in many National Forests there is still an historical remnant of human presence where individuals own cabins on land leased from the government where private ownership has not been allowed.  But over the last few decades the US Forest Service (and other government agencies) have been pushing people out as the government refuses to renew "special use permits" on what should be recognized as privately owned land.  Cabin owners who built and own their own cabins have no rights because private ownership rights to the land is not recognized; they live, literally, by permission of the government, not by right.

The viros, who now control the government land agencies, want that permission revoked.  As they promote their 'nature before man' vision in an attempt to revert over half the nation -- including acknowledged private property -- to wilderness (called the 'Wildlands Project'), the Endangered Species Act has long been part of the regulatory teeth used to enforce their misanthropic agenda.  ESA itself is based on the premise that non-human nature takes priority, as a matter of law, over human rights and you can see that principle at work as the viros move to eliminate cabin owners in California, as described in the San Bernardino County Sun article below..
http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~12588~2986162,00.html

San Bernardino County Sun

Forest Service begins cabin permit renewals
By Shirley Hsu
Staff Writer

Thursday, July 28, 2005 - ANGELES NATIONAL FOREST - The wheels have begun rolling for some 500 owners of summer cabins hoping to get new permits allowing them to stay in the forest.

But for those who lost their cabins in the 2002 forest fires, there has no been no decision on whether they will be allowed to rebuild.

Officials Wednesday began the three-and-a-half-year process of reviewing cabin tracts for new permits, good for 20 years. People who live in "summer cabins' part of the year now have special-use permits, which expire at the end of 2008.

Forest Service officials will evaluate the environmental impact of each cabin. Some will remain, others will have to be modified and some may no longer be allowed.

"This is something that is being done nationwide,' said Forest Service spokeswoman Sherry Rollman.

Many of the cabins were built 60 to 80 years ago, when there weren't many environmental standards.

"Unfortunately, many were built in riparian zones, which is where they wanted to be right by the water,' Rollman said. "Now, a lot of those areas are home to a lot of endangered species.'

The question for cabin owners now is how tough the review process will be.

Rollman said that the forest service will work with cabin owners to bring homes up to compliance, rather than just giving a stamp of approval or disapproval.

For the 110 cabins that burned during the Curve and Williams fires, there will probably be a decision as to whether cabin owners will be allowed to rebuild in anywhere from six months to the end of next year, said ranger Marty Dumpis.

In the San Dimas Canyon tract, 13 cabins are left after the fires, and 12 remain in the San Gabriel Canyon tract. Last spring, the Forest Service decided to allow only four of the 110 cabins to be rebuilt, but then later withdrew the decision after cabin owners appealed.

Cabin owners have criticized the Forest Service for dragging its feet on a decision, suspecting a plan to phase out summer cabins in the forest.

"One hundred and 10 homes were burned down in those fires. And not a single stick has been rebuilt,' said Dana Brown, whose cabin in the San Dimas Canyon burned in the fires and has been told he cannot rebuild there because his cabin is in a riparian area.

Brown still hopes to rebuild, paying about $50 a year in property taxes and $30 for the lease to keep his claim.

The U.S. Small Business Administration has approved more than $2million in disaster loans related to the fires, according to the SBA.

Three years after the fires, the forest is recovering well in most areas, Dumpis said, with heavy winter rains nourishing a layer of vegetation covering the burned areas. But, that means there's plenty of fuel for wildfires this summer.

"Unfortunately, it's ready to burn again,' Dumpis said.

Article used with permisson from Moosecove.org and the Maine Property Rights Newsletter.