Archive for August, 2008
Thursday, August 28th, 2008
How park administration used deception & sometimes-unwitting environmentalists to harass oyster company with bad publicity
Last in a series. The Inspector General’s report on its investigation into the Point Reyes National Seashore administration’s treatment of Drakes Bay Oyster Company includes numerous summaries of what various witnesses told investigators. By quoting the actual comments of witnesses and investigators, this series has attempted to show that far more has come to light [...]
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Monday, August 25th, 2008
Nature’s Two Acres Part XXXIII: Photographing wildlife indoors and out
A California prionus beetle. Sounds sort of like a fuel-efficient car made jointly by Toyota and Volkswagen, doesn’t it?
I found this huge beetle (more than two inches long) near my woodstove a couple of weeks ago, and Inverness Park biologist Russell Ridge identified it for me. The prionus beetle is usually described as a “boring [...]
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Wednesday, August 20th, 2008
What government scientists elsewhere had to say about the park’s misrepresenting research to attack oyster company
Investigators from the Inspector General’s Office of the Interior Department, as was detailed here last week, found far more deception by the Point Reyes National Seashore superintendent and the park’s senior science advisor than has been reported in West Marin’s newspapers. Likewise getting almost no attention in the press is the chagrin investigators found among [...]
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
Landscape photos & paintings in Stinson Beach
An exhibition titled Silver & Oil: Landscape Photographs and Paintings opened Saturday at the Claudia Chapline Gallery in Stinson Beach, drawing an appreciative crowd.
The photographs are by Art Rogers of Point Reyes Station (seen here with gallery owner Claudia Chapline). Rogers is best known for his black-and-white portraits of people in West Marin, but his [...]
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
What’s in the Inspector General’s report on the park that the newspapers haven’t been telling you
Although Point Reyes National Seashore abuse of Drakes Bay Oyster Company is thoroughly documented in the report issued three weeks ago by the Inspector General’s Office of the Interior Department, the local press has shied away from going into details.
With an amazing lack of indignation, most news reports have reduced documented revelations of park-administration abuse [...]
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Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
Point Reyes National Seashore Supt. Don Neubacher seen as ’scary’
“[Point Reyes National Seashore Supt.] Don Neubacher has all the control over all of us out on the point, and we know that, and it’s scary.” — Kevin Lunny, oyster grower and cattle rancher
A symbolic depiction by Mexican muralist José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949) of official ‘Cruelty‘ toward common people.
When the Inspector General’s Office of the [...]
