Letter to the editor:
Our pledge request dashed
Last week we asked Neal Desai of the National Park Conservation Association and Amy Trainer of the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin to “take the pledge” to promise to the community that “neither I nor any organization I am a part of will ever participate in legal action to eliminate or restrict the ranches on Point Reyes.” We asked because in the late 1990s, Mr. Desai and his organization successfully sued the National Park Service based on the federal Clean Water Act and Endangered Species Act to get rid of a ranch on Santa Rosa Island. On Tuesday evening, Nita Vail, whose family was evicted from that ranch, spoke to the community, and cautioned us that what happened to her could happen here. Mr. Desai was in the audience. During the Q&A period, one of us asked Mr. Desai to take the pledge. His answer, which should be a wake up call to the community, was to say that such a request was “ridiculous.” That word makes the many others from Mr. De- sai and Ms. Trainer in support of agriculture just that—hollow words.
Corey Goodman and Peter Prows
Marshall and Oakland
Drakes Bay Oyster Company & the National Park Service. Watch the video, "THE FRAMING OF AN OYSTER FARM" at http://vimeo.com/52331881 
Milly Biller
/ November 14, 2014Absolutely hollow words. They have one agenda- remove everyone from Point Reyes National Seashore- most especially the ranchers. They were successful with the Oyster Farm, weren’t they?