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The oyster war : the true story of a small farm, big politics, and the future of wilderness in America / Summer Brennan.
- Title
- The oyster war : the true story of a small farm, big politics, and the future of wilderness in America / Summer Brennan.
- Author
- Brennan, Summer
- Publication
- Berkeley, CA : Counterpoint, [2015]
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| Text | Request in advance | SH365.C2 B74 2015 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xvii, 373 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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"--Publisher's description.
- Subject
- Oyster fisheries > Drakes Bay
- Oyster fisheries > Point Reyes National Seashore
- Shellfish culture > Point Reyes National Seashore
- Shellfish fisheries > Point Reyes National Seashore
- Marine ecosystem management > Point Reyes National Seashore
- Marine ecosystem management
- Oyster fisheries
- Shellfish culture
- Shellfish fisheries
- Point Reyes National Seashore (Calif.)
- Drakes Bay (Calif.)
- California > Point Reyes National Seashore
- Pacific Ocean > Drakes Bay
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781619025271
- 1619025272
- LCCN
- ^^2015009546
- OCLC
- 892163326
- SCSB-11393435
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library