The Tea Party Patriots of North Idaho support a common-sense approach to protecting the environment. We believe that our Fifth Amendment rights are in danger due to the federal government’s confiscatory regulation of private property in the name of protecting so-called endangered plant and animal species. We do not believe that nature should be elevated above human and property rights. We support a balanced approach between preserving the natural world and protecting the living needs of the people of Idaho.

 e strongly support the philosophy of the Heartland Institute in that “common-sense environmentalism recognizes that almost everyone today is an environmentalist. We all want a healthy, green environment for ourselves and...

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