Many U.S. Parks, Monuments, Wildlife Refuges & Public Lands are too dangerous for U.S. public to use

June 21, 2010 - PRLog -- Many U.S. Parks, Monuments, Wildlife Refuges & Public Lands are too dangerous for U.S. public to use
By Michael Webster: Syndicated Investigative Reporter. June 19, 2010 at 5:30 PM PDT

In effect our Government has seceded millions of acres of our federal lands to the Mexican Drug Cartels who have also taken control of many counties in Texas, New Mexico and at least three Arizona counties, endangering American lives and is encroaching on our national sovereignty.

The United States no longer controls many of our Wilderness Areas, National Parks, Monuments, Wildlife Refuges, Gunnery Ranges, Military Reservations, State Lands and provides little or no security to private land owners along our southern border. Because according to U.S. law enforcement drug cartels now control these areas.

U.S. Government agencies and their PR spokespersons have been very critical of news articles, TV and radio news casts similar to this article. They say out of one side of their mouths that stories like this one and others are ludicrous and are not actuate and that it is safe on the federal land they manage, yet from the other side of their mouths they say that it is dangerous or they caution citizens to be extremely careful while on these U.S. lands.

According to a U.S. Government official who is not authorized to address this issue told the U.S. Border Fire Report that many of the government bureaucrats are concerned if the public stops using the lands they manage that they fear of losing their government jobs.


Many of these lands are not protected by our government’s law enforcement agencies or military. Many claim that our Border Patrol and other federal, state and counties are under manned and under financed. Therefore, according to at least one Arizona sheriff drug cartels now control much of these lands.
According to the Pinal County Sheriff “large areas in Southern Arizona are very dangerous to U.S. citizens.  
 “We do not have control of this area"  
http://www.borderlandbeat.com/2010/06/pinal-county-sherif...

Pinal County investigators say an area known as the smuggling corridor now stretches from Mexico's border to metro Phoenix.
The area once used by American families by camping, hiking, off roading and for general recreation is now being denied by the armed and dangerous smugglers that use the areas for criminal activities and therefore deny the use by our residents.
Night vision and other type cameras have photographed Mexican Drug Cartels and others with military arms and heavy back packs full of drugs moving through these now well known drug corridors and areas where smugglers deliver these drugs to vehicles along Highway 8. Click on or Google: Mexican Drug Cartels putting Americans in danger on American soil

An operative known to us as “Duck Hunter” has told the U.S. Border Fire Report that “no one is working this area, Not ICE, DEA, ATF, Customs and Border Protection, FBI, Pinal County sheriff, or BLM. That tells me that the cronies in Washington does not give a shit about the publics safety [sec]. This is going on 80 miles north of the border. Their actions are telling me that is fine [sec] that the Mexican Drug Cartels has full control of our desert.
Where is Congress and DHS in this new Mexican-American war that we seem to be losing?”

As a consequence many citizens are fearful to take their families too many of these areas because of the lack of law enforcement.  

According to a supervisor with the U.S. Border Patrol he indicated that land designations have a significant impact on the ability of the Border Patrol to effectively control crime, due to the numerous restrictions imposed, such as no use of motorized vehicles and no mechanized equipment on certain designated federal wilderness lands. Our wilderness, national wildlife refuges, monuments and other federal lands along the Arizona border are becoming havens for criminal activity due to drug and human smuggling cartels that now "own" these areas. They understand the severe restrictions on Border Patrol and law enforcement, and it makes these areas very "criminal friendly". See Border Wilderness is just too dangerous for the public use.  Click on or Google:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY6sPP7m8rA



Exactly how many thousands of acres of federal land are closed or should be closed due to safety concerns for American citizens near the border are not immediately available. We have calls in to U.S.Agencies, none have returned our calls to date.


The federal government closed a portion of a US park in Arizona four years ago due to violence perpetuated by illegal aliens and smugglers along the US/Mexico border. Roughly 3,500 acres of the Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge -- about 3 percent of the 118,000-acre park -- have been closed since Oct. 6, 2006, when U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials acknowledged a marked increase in violence along a tract of land that extends north from the border for roughly three-quarters of a mile. Federal officials say they have no plans to reopen the area.
Click on or Google:  closure notice [PDF,  on the park’s website.

Click on or Google:   link to the park’s website click on the closure notice banner in the lower right side of the page.

The Buenos Aires National Wildlife Refuge admits that they have been adversely affected by border-related activities. They say that their international border with Mexico has also become increasingly violent. Assaults on law enforcement officers and violence against migrants have escalated. Violence on the Refuge associated with smugglers and border bandits has been well documented. Many of these activities are concentrated at, or near, the border. The concentration of illegal activity, surveillance and law enforcement interdictions make these zones dangerous. According to the Refuge that statement was put on their web site in 2006. Since than they now claim things have gotten better. The facts are things on the U.S. Border with Mexico have gotten worse.

According to their web site that closure is in effect until further notice. My question would be if things have gotten better, why are they still maintaining the closure!

"This is one of those things that the Department of Interior does not want to publicize," said Rep. Rob Bishop, R-Utah, ranking Republican on the House Parks and Public Lands Subcommittee. "These bad actors are now being channeled into federal lands along the border because it's so easy to make that access. The situation is getting worse on federal lands and will only get worse until we make some proactive activity to change the status quo."
"Frankly," Bishop continued, "the status quo is failing. We are failing to control our borders."
Bishop, who has introduced legislation that would remove environmental restrictions the Department of Interior imposes on U.S. Border Patrol agents, questioned the message sent by federal authorities by closing off part of the Buenos Aires Refuge.
"That is a ludicrous message," he said. "That policy is unacceptable. That strikes of running a policy of appeasement to drug cartels instead of fighting back. Someone has to say that not one inch of American property will be given to the bad guys and not one death is acceptable." Bishop also said that the policy of "ceding" federal land to drug and human trafficking is unacceptable.


According to Col- Ronald Adler, commandant for the United States Civil Defense Assoc. (USCD) of Arizona says “ If some of these government agencies continue to encourage Americans to come and visit their parks, monuments, national forests, and other lands on or within a 100 miles of the U.S. Mexican border and this administration does not come through with U.S. army troops on our border with Mexico unsuspecting Americans may meet a violent death or violently maimed by armed smugglers and/or terrorist who are illegally infiltrating American sovereign lands.”

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