<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><span></span><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-style: italic;">‘</span><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-style: italic;">TWAS THE NIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS FOR THE LAND TAKEAWAY TRIO</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s3" style="font-weight: bold; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS'; font-style: italic;">- Author unknown -</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s3" style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">(Really, I forgot who wrote this neat-o poem)</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"></span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">‘Twas</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> the night after Christmas when throughout the public lands</span> </p><p class="s6" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-indent: 36px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Many creatures were stirring in the forests and sands.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The animals hung their heads for they all had a care</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And hopes they wouldn’t be traded along with their lair.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The young were all nestled snug in their beds</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">While visions of their forest homes danced in their heads.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The Big Trio in Washington, Missoula and Idaho</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Settled down for a long nap but sleep came slow</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Tidwell, Weldon and </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Brazell</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> didn’t count on such a clatter</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">That sprang up from the people to find what </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">was the matter</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">With the Forest Service plan to trade the people’s land in a flash</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">They were surprised the owners would make such a splash.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The ‘</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">crats</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> were nestled all snug in their beds</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">As </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">visions of the </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Lochsa</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> Land Takeaway danced in their heads.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">What the ‘</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">crats</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> wondering eyes did not expect to appear</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Were the people in masse that generated such </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">fear.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">As the people fought the Land Takeaway so lively and quick</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The Trio must have been as surprised as seeing St. Nick.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The moon on the breast of a new fallen snow</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Told the story of the Land Takeaway by the three so and </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">so’s</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The lands’ owners organized behind those brick walls</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And the opposition were many, in fact almost all.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">They fought to keep their lands and will continue at all cost</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">So the Forest Service Trio doesn’t give them to their own Santa Claus.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The Forest Service legacy and the Trio as well</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Will forever be tainted, so far they have </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">fell.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The people </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">hold their</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> nose as the lands disappear</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">And the smell of something tainted appears and reappears.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">It’s the smell of suspicion as their lands may be lost</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">To a Forest Service Trio’s </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">hand picked</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';"> Santa Claus.</span></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-size: 18px; font-family: Times;"> </p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Ah yes, ther</span><a name="_GoBack"></a><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">e’s Rocky Mountain Elk, a once respected org</span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">, </span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Which now accepts cash so a private firm can gorge.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The RMEF is paid money by a timber/realty </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">corp</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">To help takeaway people’s lands—something here is warped!</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Ah yes, but there’s </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">the law and courts to judge how far a non-profit can go</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">To harm the lives of 150,000 </span><span class="s5" style="line-height: 16px; font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">before they must pay back and woe.</span></p><p class="s4" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-family: Times; font-size: 18px; text-align: center;"> </p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-size: 18px; font-family: Times;"> ----------------------------------</p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-size: 18px; font-family: Times;"><br></p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-size: 18px; font-family: Times;"><b>"The Trio Land Swindle"</b> by Garrett Clevenger</p><p class="s2" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; line-height: 21px; font-size: 18px; font-family: Times;"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com/Lochsa/The_Trio_Land_Swindle.mp3">http://www.MoscowCares.com/Lochsa/The_Trio_Land_Swindle.mp3</a></p></div><div><br></div></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares"</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div> </div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div></div></div></body></html>