Our Klamath Basin Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
Our Klamath Basin
Water Crisis
Upholding rural Americans' rights to grow food,
own property, and caretake our wildlife and natural resources.
While Jim did
not live on the farm, he was sixth generation part
owner of it, and his efforts to keep his
inheritance -- along with the homes and farms of
the Home Farm's neighbors -- safe from the
clutches of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, are
legend.
The humble
beginnings of NoDarbyRefuge.org were to extend
sixteen months, at which time Jim became ill and
unable to continue. During those sixteen months,
however, the word "Darby" came to symbolize every
farmer and homeowner in this part of Ohio.
Jim's efforts
-- as rich as the fertile lands from whence he
came -- produced something that had never before
been done: USFWS did NOT have its way here.
There is no
federal wildlife refuge here, and a large part of
that is due to Jim Slaughter.
While the
website that took up where Jim's brainchild left
off, PropertyRightsResearch.org, can lay claim to
many more visitors and a great deal more content,
it would never have been, had the groundwork laid
by Jim not come first.
Few people
really knew the reclusive, private man that was
Jim, but many admired what he did in the short
time in which his idea -- NoDarbyRefuge.org -- was
born, grew and flourished.
Jim Slaughter
now belongs to the ages, but to us he was friend,
lover of the land and its stewards and something
more. He was a modern-day minuteman, responding
with alacrity when called to duty and serving his
country well and honorably.
We shall miss
you, Jim, but PropertyRightsResearch.org stands in
tribute to your efforts. Godspeed, friend!
Julie
Smithson
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