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GuapoVino
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Jan 21, 2015 - 09:03am PT
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When Lunny realized his gamble to buy the doomed lease wasn't going to pay off he should have sold it to Cliven Bundy. This is kind of Bundy's area of expertise. Bundy could have shown up with his militia misfits and claimed to be the victim of an over-reaching tyrannical federal bureaucracy.
This kind of reminds me of North Padre Island, which once was a cattle ranch but that was phased out and now its a 60 mile long National Seashore.
http://www.nps.gov/pais/historyculture/index.htm
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 21, 2015 - 09:14am PT
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Guapo, that was a business decision, it's much better to go out kicking and screaming.
SLR, if it were really wilderness. Why doesn't the fork-tongued Park
Service do anything to stop the Navy from using SEKI as their China Lake
adjunct? Oh, I forgot, because F-18's screaming overhead every hour isn't
addressed by 'wilderness definitions'.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Jan 21, 2015 - 10:17am PT
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Why doesn't the fork-tongued Park Service do anything to stop the Navy from using SEKI as their China Lake adjunct? excellent question
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wstmrnclmr
Trad climber
Bolinas, CA
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Jan 21, 2015 - 11:37am PT
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This place is special in that it's one of the few largely pristine estuaries left on the coast near a large urban area. I just left west marin after 53 years and growth has been exponential and the pressures on the GGNRA have grown exponentially as well. The oyster farm didn't have a large impact on the estero but the estero is unique and Lunny new what he was getting into. Glad it's gone and the park will do right in this instance of rehabitating the area.
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c wilmot
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Jan 21, 2015 - 01:50pm PT
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As for the empty lot becoming a trash depository, I highly doubt it. Sounds like you dont know the area very well. Lets wait and see.
Umm I have been there plenty- is it not a dead end isolated dirt road? I have been on PLENTY of government waste pick up crews that dealt with trash dumps that had the EXACT kind of locale this does. give a few months and we will see who is right
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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Jan 21, 2015 - 01:57pm PT
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I live in West Marin. In spite of all the noise to "save" the oyster company there are plenty of residents who favor the removal of same. It's wonderful to hike near the estero and imagine what Drake saw when he arrived. I won't miss seeing any commercial development there.
lars
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couchmaster
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Jan 30, 2015 - 05:43am PT
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"imagine what Drake saw when he arrived. "
It's been said that Drake never saw it and it wasn't Drakes landing spot at all. Secrecy led to the misconception it is said. I'm sure that HAD Drake landed there, which he appears to not have done (according to some), he could have had an entertaining evening eating seafood with the local inhabitants whom to this day (although chased out of that area long since) are still called "Indians" due to them being believed to be living in a country called India. (Not by Drake who mostly refers to them in his writings as natives). It has since been learned, interestingly, that they did not live in "India" at all and had never seen that country.
http://nwpr.org/post/oregon-history-buffs-dismiss-californias-drake-landmark
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 30, 2015 - 08:36am PT
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It's wonderful to hike near the estero and imagine what Drake saw when he arrived.
By that logic then San Francisco Bay should be cleansed of commercial interests.
As to whether Drake landed there or not it seems clear that we will never know.
It isn't a great anchorage although, to coin a phrase, any port in a storm,
as long as that storm isn't a sou'wester. It would have done for a one
night stand but without good water there I wouldn't have stayed long.
But we digress, enjoyably.
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