UN Biosphere Reserve gets three jailed 
for "trying to molest it"

Remember those "UN biosphere reserves" dissident talk-radio
hosts have been talking about being designated from American
national parks?

Last Tuesday, three California men - Michael More, William
McBride, and Neal Daskal - were federally indicted on charges that
could get each 16 years without parole. And for what?

Their problems stem from their efforts to - in the federal
prosecutor's own words - agreeing to "construct an illegal bicycle
trail" in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which the
federal prosecutor specifically noted is part of the United
Nations' "Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve." The UN designated the
area part of a "biosphere reserve" for, among other things, being
a habitat for the notorious spotted owl.

Now all three men are charged with conspiracy to injure
federal property, injuring federal property - both felonies - and
cutting trees on federal property.

All three are specifically accused of pruning branches from
trees, cutting a few trees, moving dirt, and stacking wood cut from
downed trees to make a jump area for bicyclists. The three were
caught doing that on Feb. 4 this year.

Whatever the three men were doing, they sure didn't do very
much; the federal prosecutor claims the three had only been working
on the trail on a total of three occasions.

Alamance Independent:

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