The Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is home to some 350,000 people who live and work in the 23 counties that comprise the ecosystem. A very small but vocal and well funded group of this population is not happy we are utilizing our area's abundant natural resources to make our living and want us to stop.

Ranching, farming, logging, forest recreation, residential construction and tourist facilitation is the target of these green activists that have deemed us trespassers in the land of the animal and tree.

Human nature provides a mental mechanism (guilt) that sometimes retroactively provides a knee jerk reaction from perceived wrong doings. There are people all over America who believe they have fouled their nest and knee jerk compulsion demands reaction that doesn't effect their community and pocketbook but does harbor a rationalization of redemption. It is these people that fund the few altruistic but egocentric green activists hell bent on ruining the economy of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem by putting what they perceive as offenders of nature out of business and out of jobs.

Altruism is a wonderful thing if not perverted into a destructive weapon by narrow minded zealots that are more concerned by their perceptions and feelings than by facts. Junk science, lies and alarmist Chicken Little tactics are the weapons of the green activists and a misinformed and duped populace is their co-conspirators and constituency.

Zealots lacking human empathy who are over funded by a guilt ridden, misinformed, and gullible populace creates a dynamic that facilitates a tyranny of the absent and ignorant.

We have been surviving off the land and the people that visit it since the 1890's, if we wish to continue to do so we must stand together and address the allegations of the environmental propagandists that hope to put an end to our way of life. It will be an up hill battle because mundane facts don�t incite excitement and fervor as does the alarmist inflammatory hyperbole of the environmental left but with the facts on our side we can prevail if we stand together united.