(Editors Note: Sometimes a response to an Op-ed piece is better made by commenting directly within the article.)
Background: In the February 16, 2012 issue of the Marine Independent Journal is a "Guest op-ed" by Phyllis Faber, a co-founder of the Marin Agricultural Land Trust and a creator/former commissioner of the California Coastal Commission. It is copied below with comments on her thoughts. Ms. Faber is respected and has devoted most of her life to the preservation of open spaces through conservation easements, and through the California Coastal Commission (CCC), helped control developments on shorelines. That said, Ms. Faber does the CCC and the Wilderness Act a disservice in her well intentioned but misplaced support for the continued operation of the commercial shellfish farm in Drakes Estero.
Ms. Faber
Photo, Marine Independent Journal
California Coastal Commission uses distorted information to condemn oyster farm, 2/16/13, Marin Independent Journal
Comment: Drakes Bay Oyster Company was not condemned by the California Coastal Commission (CCC). It was brought before the commission to address past violations it did not act on
