Oysters v. the National Park Service

"Oystergate" heats up

Marin Blog
San Francisco Chronicle

The back-and-forth battle between the National Park Service (NPS) and Drakes Bay Oyster Company (DBOC) sees no sign of letting up.

The latest volley in the ongoing war between the Kevin Lunny of DBOC and park service personnel and local environmentalists, took another step after local filmmaker Nicole Adams produced the Oystergate Video which has gone viral. Adams takes swipes at Lunny's main foes, Sierra Club's Gordon Bennett and Don Neubacher. Neubacher, is the former Point Reyes NPS Director who is headed for a position at Yosemite, courtesy of his former boss, Jon Jarvis who now heads the NPS. The decision to extend DBOC's lease to operate oyster farming in Drakes Estero which is at the center of the fight, will likely now rest with Jarvis.

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