Crowdog
05-02-2002, 08:05 AM
Save some beach for vehicles
To the Editor:
Does it matter to these extreme environmentalists the millions of people that will be affected by this beach closing? Just to name a few: the disabled, which I have taken out on several occasions, the fisherman, the business owners and the families. 99 percent of the thousands of people I've talked to want this beach left as is.
Is it too much to ask for less than 1 percent of the coastline to remain open for families to recreate in this rare form?
We've given up approximately 14,000 acres of beach since 1982. Nothing is being done in this area to promote or monitor the plover. Since the extreme enviros want our area so bad and don't care about the land they have already taken then, lets trade! Shouldn't they be promoting nesting habitats in the thousands of acres they already have?
Friends of Oceano Dunes have offered to help promote nesting in the 98 percent of beach that has been taken away. That would be too easy and inexpensive I assume. Instead they concentrate on affecting millions of people. Gordon Hensley said it is obvious that a least tern they have found dead on the beach was struck by a vehicle. This is a false statement. All that was proven was "blunt trauma." This bird could have flown into a window of a home by the beach or a vehicle on Hwy. 1 for all he knows. Don't listen to these false statements that are trying to mislead you. If you want the truth go to www.oceanodunes.org or call (805)788-4926.
Ginger Schenk
Oceano
Letters to the Editor for May 2, 2002
www.santamariatimes.com
To the Editor:
Does it matter to these extreme environmentalists the millions of people that will be affected by this beach closing? Just to name a few: the disabled, which I have taken out on several occasions, the fisherman, the business owners and the families. 99 percent of the thousands of people I've talked to want this beach left as is.
Is it too much to ask for less than 1 percent of the coastline to remain open for families to recreate in this rare form?
We've given up approximately 14,000 acres of beach since 1982. Nothing is being done in this area to promote or monitor the plover. Since the extreme enviros want our area so bad and don't care about the land they have already taken then, lets trade! Shouldn't they be promoting nesting habitats in the thousands of acres they already have?
Friends of Oceano Dunes have offered to help promote nesting in the 98 percent of beach that has been taken away. That would be too easy and inexpensive I assume. Instead they concentrate on affecting millions of people. Gordon Hensley said it is obvious that a least tern they have found dead on the beach was struck by a vehicle. This is a false statement. All that was proven was "blunt trauma." This bird could have flown into a window of a home by the beach or a vehicle on Hwy. 1 for all he knows. Don't listen to these false statements that are trying to mislead you. If you want the truth go to www.oceanodunes.org or call (805)788-4926.
Ginger Schenk
Oceano
Letters to the Editor for May 2, 2002
www.santamariatimes.com