Kansas City, Mo. – The Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) and the National Audubon Society harbored a conspiracy on Oct. 23 designed to intimidate land owners and threaten cattle producers with financial ruin if they refuse to cooperate with known anti livestock activists and pay into a protection racket.
The Audubon Conservation Ranching (ACR) program threatens ranchers with costly improvements that preclude USDA reimbursement or tax deduction, and demand you run your ranch as some city kid on a college campus dictates. This scam applies to any stretch of field that someone could squint sideways and maybe see a bird.
Below is an example of just how far this conspiracy is willing to stoop to push an economically destabilizing agenda based on a rapidly discredited field of study and the organization that perpetuates it in the name of easy grant funds for research that has never been peer reviewed.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-cornell-scientists-downfall-1537915735
https://www.nature.com/news/publishing-the-peer-review-scam-1.16400
https://www.chronicle.com/article/Fake-Peer-Reviews-the-Latest/134784
Hopefully exposing this may hinder the scam from operating in other areas of research. How many times has egg research been reversed in the last 20 years by the same schools that make use of these research grants? It’s worth noting those stunning reversals came at the hands of peer review fraud being exposed, dating back to the founding of the school that claimed to author the anti cattle protest posing as a bird study. It’s not even a secret that you can buy a positive peer review from Cornell for as little as $100.
That would be the “College” that reviewed the Bird Study. It’s also the college that hosts Audubon servers and research materials. I’m sure we would all love to have a handy rogues gallery of protestors with extensive criminal records to “verify” our quality of work in exchange for the cover of legitimacy.
Our sources have matched member lists from known eco-terrorism investigations to the framers of this protection racket and it’s endorsers. We have also been able to match endorsers to alumni support groups and to violent protest actions around the country.
Consumers in Missouri, Kansas, and other states can help by buying beef at retail outlets that bears Audubon’s green label _ “Grazed on Bird Friendly Land.”
The mafia and other criminal conspirators love this language. It’s full of outs to avoid direct responsibility. “I’m not saying if you don’t pay for protection that something will happen. Accidents do happen and it would be a shame if something happened to keep you from earning a living”
The mass intimidation approach adds a new way to force private landowners to adopt rules made up a thousand miles away based on never having visited or worked the land in question. Grasslands support a wide variety of wildlife as well as the state’s cattle industry. Such group intimidation tactics only serve to cause division and misery for all involved.
Prospective victims at the event billed as the KC Conservation Ranching Initiative brought together cattle producers, representatives from the restaurant and retail food industry, and “conservation experts” from several states. A person claiming to be a chef prepared and served beef allegedly raised under Audubon’s ACR program. All done in the vain hope you’re too scared or just plain stupid to read for yourself and determine your own land management policy.
This is a pretty miraculous feat considering the time it takes to raise cattle and this program didn’t even exist before the fraudulent bird study was released mere months ago. Audubon sees Kansas City as a logical next victim for coercing Missouri and Kansas ranchers with grassland conservation protection rackets. Plus, they can destroy the region’s rich Cowtown history in the process.
We would have seen press releases from ANY of the states these frauds are claiming to work with. We do this work every day of the week and not one state we contacted has ANY record of this program or it’s conspirators. One state even suggested we inform the US Justice Department of a potential racketeering case. That was after reading the original press release to them. That state said there is no way possible they would allow citizens to be intimidated under such a program.
Prairie and woodlands with native grasses and wildflowers provided the original habitat for birds such as bobwhite quail, prairie-chickens, meadowlarks, and Henslow’s sparrows. All of the species mentioned have enjoyed astounding recoveries under current conditions. The Prairie Chicken recovery program just won a national award for the astounding measurable outcomes.
The rich prairie soils became the base for America’s bread-basket agriculture crop production. Where pastures and hay meadows now dot the land. Some have non-native grasses and are managed in ways that are not always friendly to grassland bird nesting, feeding, and over wintering. Yet still life has found a way. Bird species simply nest in barns, eaves, and building roof tops.
The use of native grasses and forbs (wildflowers) in grazing plans has proven profitable for some cattle producers by boosting calving rates and weight gains in summer. Grazing warm-season natives in summer also allows some producers to stockpile cool-season grasses for winter. This is not always possible given the variable nature of land and soil quality.
But incorporating natives under this completely made up program requires extensive irrational planning and exorbitant costs to establish what a non cattle producer deems usable forage. The Audubon ACR program provides cattle producers an unproven link to a beef marketing program that might help them afford arbitrary range management practices possibly benefiting grassland birds.
USDA already provides this service largely free of charge with no requirement to participate with strangers of questionable accreditation. The agency is called the Natural Resources Conservation Service. They are the agency that funded the warm season grass research to begin with. They also said that seeding native grasses requires no more effort than any other seeding operation to maintain forage.
Audubon uses undisclosed and un-credentialed or record checked third-party individuals posing as experts to audit conservation practices being implemented on farms. A link to the scam job description is listed below. That means some stranger randomly showing up and telling you how to run your land.
In this case it’s the kind of malcontents that show up to protest slaughterhouses and poultry farms. There’s a clear and unquestionable connection between these groups and it would be beyond laughable to deny it. Court records bear that truth out. Do you want people suspected of multiple instances of eco-terrorism directed at farmers without escort on your land at any time without notice?
In Missouri and Kansas, the private Missouri River Bird Observatory will monitor bird populations every two years to measure results. Audubon officials thanked Max Alleger, an MDC wildlife “ecologist” who helped the national program get its start in Missouri and claimed to have assisted other states in setting protocols for grassland management beneficial to birds. We still haven’t found any proof of that other that their word alone.
This half ass program is so hastily cobbled together that they didn’t even fill the no experience necessary jobs to allegedly oversee this protection racket posing as a certification. If the employees don’t need experience, then how are they supposed to maintain credibility? Not to mention they claim to have a program up and running to allegedly raise beef to magically serve at the certification scam event but didn’t start looking for throw away employees until May of this year to even start a program much less operate it.
“The motivation of MDC is grassland bird conservation,” Alleger said. “We provide technical assistance to farmers and ranchers. We help them engage in ways that are better for the birds.” People say a lot of things in the name of motivated self interest.
It’s also true that people have served 30 years to life for operating similar “protection” rackets posing as a public service. Next they’ll be trying to get PETA to certify slaughterhouses. It’s as if these scam artists didn’t think a simple sphere of influence examination would reveal the known criminals and eco-terrorists propping up this scam.
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