Wise Use in Northern Puget Sound

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Research for this report was supported in part by a grant from the Wilderness Society.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Jay Taber

Preface

1987 - 1989
Wise Use begins building a network of industry funded lobbying groups.

1990 - 1991
Wise Use in Western Washington aligns itself with the real estate and development industry. The passage of the Washington Growth Management Act opens up a powerful source of political money.

1992
Wise Use builds its political network of county-level property rights groups.

1993
WiseUse begins to collect on its electoral strategy.

1994
The judicial nemesis. The Wise Use drift towards extremism accelerates.

Appendix I:
The Growth Management Act and "takings" claims

Appendix II:
Wise Use, property rights and the county secession movement

Appendix III:
Abusing public process as an obstructionist tactic

Appendix IV:
Right-wing legal foundations

Appendix V:
The Keystone Forum PAC

Appendix VI:
Keystone PAC and independent expenditure campaigns

Appendix VII:
Wise Use and political extremism

Appendix VIII:
Chronological list of sources