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I read with interest the two letters to the Herald regarding the critical caribou habitat from Tom Emond and Brad Smith.

I don’t know Brad Smith and perhaps he is a well-intentioned person, but I do know that the organization he speaks for, the Idaho Conservation League, has made common cause with the Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Biological diversity in their suits over the caribou habitat.

There is no doubt that the Defenders of Wildlife has ties to some of the most radical environmentalists currently active at the national and international levels, and supports the notorious Wildlands Project.

Since Brad Smith mentions his work with the Kootenai Valley Resource Initiative, I will note that the Nature Conservancy also has a seat at that table.

They are the largest and wealthiest of all the green groups, having made a fortune by purchasing lands from well-meaning people and then reselling them to the federal government at exorbitant profits.

They have had CEO’s with ties to Goldman Sachs and practice oil drilling and extractive industry on lands in their possession.

Indeed all three groups mentioned here have become fabulously wealthy from their frivolous lawsuits and/or associations with crony corporations and governments.

For more information and an expanded version of this letter go to www.thedailyherb.com

Anyway, it appears that the caribou habitat is a distraction right now. There is already a plan to lock up 2.2 million acres of grizzly habitat in Idaho, Montana and northeast Washington.

Sara Hall

Naples