If you wish to download the Mountain View Heritage Area Meeting Flyer to hand out,  it is here in PDF format.  (It is better to right-click, save-as to your hard drive to view & print.):
Mountain View Heritage Meeting

Meeting to Discuss
Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area

March 3—7:30 p.m. Mountain View, Missouri Community Center

 
Area residents concerned about 13 area counties being designated a National Heritage Area, will have a chance to hear the matter discussed and voice their concerns at the meeting. 

Spokespersons for West Plains Council on the Arts, Ozarks Preservation Inc., and the National Park Service have been invited. They will have an opportunity to present their case and answer questions from the public.
   
 Ozarks Property Rights Congress is hosting the event and will present the landowner, private property rights point of view.

For more information: info@ozarksprc.com
Ozarks Property Rights Congress
P.O. Box 47, Mountain Grove, MO 65711

Ozarks Property Rights Congress Meeting
February 24 -7:00 p.m.-Hayloft Restaurant– Mountain Grove, Missouri
Come early if you care to eat as no food is allowed in the meeting room.

Much is happening with the proposed 13 County Ozarks Highland National Heritage Area and we will bring the updates to you at the meeting. It is getting down to crunch time to stop it. The 13 counties are Wright, Douglas, Ozark, Texas, Howell, Dent, Reynolds, Iron, Wayne, Carter, Ripley, Shannon, and Oregon

County Commissioners across the areas are becoming aware of the burdens this NHA will bring on their counties if it is allowed to become law. The National Park Service will bring their rules to bear on the counties through the local management entity who is pushing for this. If their rules are not accepted then funding will be withheld. Follow the money.

We need to stop this land control proposal, disguised as a “save the stories and heritage of the area” warm fuzzy thing. The West Plains Council on the Arts (the local management entity) has opened a comment period through March 5. The address is P.O. Box 339, West Plains, MO 65775. Email: arts@townsqr.com or call Matt Meacham at 417-372-3177. Remember, the only way there is a record of your comment, is if you put it in writing, either letter or email. We recommend that you also send copies to both MO Senators, Rep. JoAnn Emerson, the National Park Service director, and your state senator & representative. Also, let your County Commissioners that you don’t want any part of it.

 Thousands of dollars received by the Missouri Dept of Social Services, Family Support Division, from the Federal Stimulus funds have already been spent on this for Feasibility Studies, websites, and other NHA related things. How does this help disadvantaged families in our counties?

The website for the quote below was incorrect. It should read    http://www.vlrc.org/articles/168.html     Documents detailing what has happened  to landowners in other Heritage Areas do not paint a pretty picture. Once the National Park Service hands down its “guidelines,” property rights go out the window. And there is no “opting-out.” Steve Hodapp ( formerly worked with the National Park Service  to create the NHA program and was point person for NHA legislation on the House Resource Committee) said,  ”It (opting-out) is a physical and geographical impossibility. One is either inside the boundaries of a National Heritage Area, or outside the boundaries. And if one is within the boundaries, and there is a management plan that prescribes, indeed mandates, programs and activities to protect, enhance, and manage natural and scenic values within the National Heritage Area—in one way or another private landowners are not goint to be allowed to convert their cornfield to a pig farm or paint their silo purple with yellow stripes.”  From The Virginia Land Rights Coalition website.  NHA Testimony from Robert J. Smith.   

   http://www.vlrc.org/articles/168.html             

OZARKS PROPERTY RIGHTS CONGRESS MEETING
February 17 -7:00 p.m. Vaught’s Family Restaurant
West of Gainesville, Missouri  on Highway 160
On meeting nights,
food is served from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m.

Doreen Hannes will hit the highlights and answer questions about the proposed Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area
The groundwork is laid. The Feasibility Studies are complete. Time is short. 

Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area is an attempt to establish governmental authority over the Ozarks region. While the proponents of the Heritage Area designation may deny this, excerpts from Ozark Action, Inc sponsored feasibility study and National Park Service documents tell a different story. OPRC will present these and  let you decide what their intentions are. Documents (700+ pages), obtained only by a freedom of information act (FOIA) request, after weeks of waiting for voluntarily shared documents, show that they had fear of property rights advocates getting access to these documents. That fear was substantiated. Promoters have taken pains to hide the facts about this program. They have quietly gone about ”selling” the ”program”, telling unsuspecting County Commissioners and Community leaders how this program will help save our ”stories”, market local products, & bring busloads of tourists to their area.

Documents detailing what has happened  to landowners in other Heritage Areas do not paint a pretty picture. Once the National Park Service hands down its “guidelines,” property rights go out the window. And there is no “opting-out.” Steve Hodapp ( formerly worked with the National Park Service  to create the NHA program and was point person for NHA legislation on the House Resource Committee) said,  ”It (opting-out) is a physical and geographical impossibility. One is either inside the boundaries of a National Heritage Area, or outside the boundaries. And if one is within the boundaries, and there is a management plan that prescribes, indeed mandates, programs and activities to protect, enhance, and manage natural and scenic values within the National Heritage Area—in one way or another private landowners are not goint to be allowed to convert their cornfield to a pig farm or paint their silo purple with yellow stripes.”  From The Virginia Land Rights Coalition website.  NHA Testimony from Robert J. Smith    http://www.vlc.org/articles/168.html

These are times that call for all who care about their rights, to become educated and knowlegeable on  issues that seek to restrict the freedom to live their lives as free Americans.
Please come to the meeting and bring someone with you.

OK Folks,

Here is the Draft Copy of the Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area Feasibility Study that  OPRC received in the Freedom of Information Act documents requested from Ozarks Action, Inc. Also, the Feasibility Study that has been made public. There are differences.

Download the Feasibility Studies here (These files are large. It is better to right-click, save-as to your hard drive to view.):

Draft Copy of the Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area Feasibility Study

http://ozarkspropertyrightscongress.com/_archive/foia-heritage-area-feasibility_draft.pdf

Public Copy of the Ozarks Highlands National Heritage Area Feasibility Study
http://ozarkspropertyrightscongress.com/_archive/110121_ohnha-feasibility-study.pdf