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The Oyster War - The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America (Paperback)
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The Oyster War - The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America (Paperback)
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It all began simply enough. In 1976 the Point Reyes Wilderness Act
granted the highest protection in America to more than 33,000 acres
of California forest, grassland and shoreline - including Drakes
Estero, an estuary of stunning beauty. Inside was a small,
family-run oyster farm first established in the 1930s. A local
rancher bought the business in 2005, renaming it The Drakes Bay
Oyster Company. When the National Park Service informed him that
the 40-year lease would not be renewed past 2012, he vowed to keep
the farm in business even if it meant taking his fight all the way
to the Supreme Court. Environmentalists, national politicians,
scientists, and the Department of the Interior all joined a
protracted battle for the estuary that had the power to influence
the future of wilderness for decades to come. Were the oyster
farmers environmental criminals, or victims of government fraud?
Fought against a backdrop of fear of government corruption and the
looming specter of climate change, the battle struck a national
nerve, pitting nature against agriculture and science against
politics, as it sought to determine who belonged and who didn't
belong, and what it means to be wild.
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