The story behind the Oyster Story. Seriously Now Oct.14, 2012

[daynurse]

I personally put together the first story on this week's show. I did not understand the hubbub about the oyster farm and all the conflicting news stories. The "hit piece" in yesterday's news is typical. This is the same park that slaughtered more than 1000 fallow dear and buried them in a mass pit with bull dozers a few years ago. Knowing that motivated me to research this story and learn what is was all about.

Barry asked me to elaborate on the deer story and the oyster story:

https://www.fotwd.org/


In the summer of 2007, the National Park Service began the systematic extermination of 250 Axis deer and 1100 Fallow (a.k.a. White) deer.

Over the next few months, and over the vocal protests of the public, the newspapers, the citizens of Marin County, California, the Marin Humane Society, In Defense of Animals, WildCare, U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey, and State Senator Carol Migden, the NPS hired contractor “White Buffalo, Inc” to kill the deer by the use of helicopters, radio tracking collars, baiting, nets, high powered weapons, beating, stabbing and plastic bag suffocation.

Also, beginning in 2007, the NPS began leading a campaign of mis-information and tainting of public opinion to justify the eviction of the Drakes Bay Oyster Company at the end of 2012. The National Academy of Sciences reviewed the research paid for by our tax dollars, and found NPS scientists misused data and even falsified information. The NPS and others are choreographing an effort to deceive the public into believing the farm is harming the Drakes Estero ecology and wildlife.

The NPS and sympathizers organized volunteers who took 230,000 photographs, all carefully documented and catalogued, and could not produce a single photograph of oyster farm workers coming in proximity of or interfering with the harbor seals breeding grounds. However, members of the public believe this is the case after seeing and reading much of the negative press stemming from the NPS, the Sierra Club and the Environmental Action Coalition.

The groups mentioned above would like to see the Point Reyes National Seashore, which is not a national park, become designated as a wilderness estuary. It would become the only wilderness estuary on the west coast. As long as the farm remains, their dream cannot come true.

On November 30th 2012, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is scheduled to decide whether or not to renew the 80 year-old farm’s lease for another 10 years.

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Peggy


Seriously Now, In Depth, October 14, 2012 edition

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This week on Seriously Now, In Depth:

• The two people behind the oyster story talk about the experience, their motives, and their reactions to the impending decision about the future of the Drake's Bay Oyster Farm.
• Fleet Week with flotilla of WWII ships under the Golden Gate.
• Informational demonstration for Proposition 37, GMO-labeling initiative.

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