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The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big Politics, and the Future of Wilderness in America

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It all started simply enough. In 1976 the Point Reyes Wilderness Act granted the highest protection in The us to more than 33,000 acres of California forest, grassland and shoreline – including Drakes Estero, an estuary of stunning beauty. Inside used to be a small, circle of relatives-run oyster farm first established within 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 though it meant taking his fight the entire 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 way forward for wilderness for decades to come. Were the oyster farmers environmental criminals, or sufferers 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 resolve who belonged and who didn’t belong, and what it means to be wild.
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