The plan was professionally written by Dr. Reed F. Noss and published in a special 1992 edition of Foreman's Wild Earth. Rivers, with buffer zones on either side, are seen to be ideal corridors to interconnect the core wilderness areas. Scenic Rivers, and American Heritage Rivers take on a new purpose when viewed in the context of the Windlands Project. The United States Senate did not ratify the Convention on Biological Diversity. Until it does, the UN has no enforcement power of land use under the treaty.
Carbon sinks are vast areas of vegetation, such as bioshpere reserves, and forests.
This requirement gives the UN a basis for dictating the management of carbon sinks. It is not as powerful a grip of land use control as would be provided by the Convention on Biological Diversity, or by the Convention on Desertification, but it is a grip nevertheless. The treaty potentially affects virtually all of the United States and has the power to govern the use of all land that contains or needs water. Behind the screen of protecting the environment, the United Nations, with the full cooperation of the United States government, is very rapidly gaining control of the use of land as the 1976 UN policy document directed. The principle of land ownership on which the United States was founded is being eroded by a global agenda.