STATEWIDE — California’s Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary is a “national treasure” and must be “maintained for future generations.” Such is the language of a resolution California’s legislators passed in late June to challenge the federal government’s planned review of marine monuments and sanctuaries.
Senate Resolution 44 (SR 44), which formally...
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Not quite sure about this one. Almost sounds like an political matter, disguised as a purely environmental issue, then it was a direct attack not a claimed counter attack. BTW, I’d prefer the status of our marine sanctuaries be left alone.
They STOLE Santa Rosa from the Vails by intimidation.
Either sell or we will take it was the offer.
I say Trump should return it to them, as the we great stewards of the island.
From 2011:But history soon took a turn that would spell the end for the deer and elk. Fearing condemnation, Vail & Vickers sold Santa Rosa Island to the government for $30 million in 1986. At the time, the Vails knew they couldn’t go on for long raising 2 million pounds of beef a year in a spot widely likened to the Galapagos, but they understood that they could keep ranching for 25 years, until 2011.
It didn’t work out that way. Family members say government restrictions after the sale forced them to quit 13 years earlier than they’d planned.
A 1997 lawsuit by the National Park and Conservation Assn. hastened the end of both ranching and hunting. The group alleged that the game animals — as well as the cattle — were degrading the environment. Under a settlement, they were to be removed over a four-year period ending this Dec. 31.
Family members still hold ranching close. Tim Vail is an equine veterinarian. Woolley raises grass-fed beef in San Luis Obispo County. Nita Vail runs the California Rangeland Trust, a group that helps property owners preserve working ranches.