home > archive > 2002 > this article The wilderness blob By
Henry Lamb Kids were scared out of their wits, back in 1958,
when a movie called The Blob, dramatized a blob of goo that
consumed everything in its path, growing larger and larger in
all directions. The Wildlands Project has become the
contemporary "Wilderness Blob," consuming the land in its path,
growing larger and larger in all directions. In California, the
the Wildlands Project has laid claim to vast reaches of land to
convert to core wilderness areas, connected by corridors of
wilderness, surrounded by buffer zones, squeezing people off the
land and into high-density, growth-limited "sustainable
communities." The Santa Barbara coast is being gobbled up by
what has become known as the "Lynn Scarlett" National Park, so
named because Lynn Scarlett, the Budget Director for the
Department of Interior, has joined forces with Rep. Lois Capps
and the Wildlands Project to designate 215,000 acres of prime
real estate as a national park - whether or not t