The House Committee on Natural Resources will be investigating The Nature Conservancy and other environmental groups involved in 12 ranchers' exit from Point Reyes National Seashore.
The NGOs and the Park Service forced out an oyster farm in Point Reyes National Seashore ten years or more ago. The NGOs and the Park Service don't want any people, except the ones they choose, on Park Service land.
I've been to Point Reyes Seashore a few times. It is a cold and windy place. The trails are in poor condition. The cows and elk can have it. My family buys dairy products from the Strauss Family Creamery. They are high-quality food.
Fantastic work. The DOI must step in and flex their authority- recession contracts, publicly expose the collusion and nullify any gag orders. Ultimately, fully restoring the leases back to the ranchers. Then, justice would be served.
The ranches on Point Reyes should have been booted long ago, but fake environmentalist Jared Huffman blocked this. The reality is indeed that the National Park Service can't be trusted, but not in the ways the OP thinks, and presumably most his commenters as well. https://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-national-park-service-really-cant.html
I don’t know enough about the situation to have an opinion.
I just wanted to point out that for all the build up of emails released via FOIA those are very normal quotes from managers to a team at the completion of any project and of course they wanted it done before the change in administration. They had been working on it for a while and wanted to see it completed!
They were sued over the presence of their multigenerational tenants. Multiple times, even after rigorous environmental reviews recommended the ranchers stay. The ranchers lost and are being forced out. The community is devastated. These federal employees sent emails to one another saying “woooohooooo a big win!” and “nicely done!”
The internal email quotes that I was expecting with that build up would be early, before the latest rounds of studies, where they would be discussing desired outcomes. They would show ill intent and possibly a desire to manipulate the studies in a particular way.
Done properly, studies and reviews should ask a question and generate data that then drives the next steps.
Those emails should not exist but I’m continually amazed at what people put into writing.
All the studies and reviews took significant time for that staff to complete. That the managers at the end are congratulating their staff is banal office chatter.
Not to mention, I am always wary of misquoted intent whenever one line or a handful of words are taken out of an email and thus out of context.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. What “studies and reviews”? This was a lawsuit. Not a study or review. All the studies including the NEPA review said the ranchers should stay on Point Reyes. If anything these officials should be expressing disappointment that the “science” was not followed. Not elation that private citizens would be evicted.
And I have not taken anything out of context. You can see the entire email.
"I don’t know enough about the situation to have an opinion."
Dig a little deeper, Mr. Muller. This has been going on since 1962. If you review US 87-657 section 4, you will begin to understand what has transpired. Here is the URL:
Good work Keely!
The NGOs and the Park Service forced out an oyster farm in Point Reyes National Seashore ten years or more ago. The NGOs and the Park Service don't want any people, except the ones they choose, on Park Service land.
I've been to Point Reyes Seashore a few times. It is a cold and windy place. The trails are in poor condition. The cows and elk can have it. My family buys dairy products from the Strauss Family Creamery. They are high-quality food.
Important work Keely. Look forward to further articles.
Great news! Great reporting!!
Point Reyes and Tomales Bay are the jewels of the West Coast,but the Feds will wreck it if they can. The elk can get along with the milk cows!
..oh good, and hopefully the repubs don't drag their feet on this, as they're infamous for doing..
Fantastic work. The DOI must step in and flex their authority- recession contracts, publicly expose the collusion and nullify any gag orders. Ultimately, fully restoring the leases back to the ranchers. Then, justice would be served.
The ranches on Point Reyes should have been booted long ago, but fake environmentalist Jared Huffman blocked this. The reality is indeed that the National Park Service can't be trusted, but not in the ways the OP thinks, and presumably most his commenters as well. https://socraticgadfly.blogspot.com/2021/10/the-national-park-service-really-cant.html
I don’t know enough about the situation to have an opinion.
I just wanted to point out that for all the build up of emails released via FOIA those are very normal quotes from managers to a team at the completion of any project and of course they wanted it done before the change in administration. They had been working on it for a while and wanted to see it completed!
They were sued over the presence of their multigenerational tenants. Multiple times, even after rigorous environmental reviews recommended the ranchers stay. The ranchers lost and are being forced out. The community is devastated. These federal employees sent emails to one another saying “woooohooooo a big win!” and “nicely done!”
Be serious.
I am quite serious.
The internal email quotes that I was expecting with that build up would be early, before the latest rounds of studies, where they would be discussing desired outcomes. They would show ill intent and possibly a desire to manipulate the studies in a particular way.
Done properly, studies and reviews should ask a question and generate data that then drives the next steps.
Those emails should not exist but I’m continually amazed at what people put into writing.
All the studies and reviews took significant time for that staff to complete. That the managers at the end are congratulating their staff is banal office chatter.
Not to mention, I am always wary of misquoted intent whenever one line or a handful of words are taken out of an email and thus out of context.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. What “studies and reviews”? This was a lawsuit. Not a study or review. All the studies including the NEPA review said the ranchers should stay on Point Reyes. If anything these officials should be expressing disappointment that the “science” was not followed. Not elation that private citizens would be evicted.
And I have not taken anything out of context. You can see the entire email.
"I don’t know enough about the situation to have an opinion."
Dig a little deeper, Mr. Muller. This has been going on since 1962. If you review US 87-657 section 4, you will begin to understand what has transpired. Here is the URL:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/87th-congress/senate-bill/476/text