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The Oyster War: The True Story of a Small Farm, Big by Summer Brennan

By Summer Brennan

It all begun barely enough. In 1976 the purpose Reyes wasteland Act granted the top defense in the US to greater than 33,000 acres of California woodland, grassland and coastline - together with Drakes Estero, an estuary of lovely attractiveness. within used to be a small, family-run oyster farm first demonstrated within the Thirties. a neighborhood rancher received the enterprise in 2005, renaming it The Drakes Bay Oyster corporation. while the nationwide Park carrier trained him that the 40-year hire wouldn't be renewed prior 2012, he vowed to maintain the farm in enterprise no matter if it intended taking his struggle all of the option to the splendid Court.

Environmentalists, nationwide politicians, scientists, and the dep. of the inner all joined a chronic conflict for the estuary that had the ability to steer the way forward for barren region for many years to return. have been the oyster farmers environmental criminals, or sufferers of presidency fraud? Fought opposed to a backdrop of worry of presidency corruption and the looming specter of weather switch, the conflict struck a countrywide nerve, pitting nature opposed to agriculture and technological know-how opposed to politics, because it sought to figure out who belonged and who didn’t belong, and what it ability to be wild.

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He was standing by a minivan with three little girls hanging out of the windows and sliding door, trying to get a glimpse of the action. Beside us, a couple in their forties unloaded colorful plastic kayaks from the roof of their sport utility vehicle. “I have no idea,” I said. I wondered if the people in wetsuits were doing something with the seals, thinking maybe one was sick or had gotten stuck in the mud or something. Out of curiosity, I asked the kayakers if they knew anything about harbor seals in the estuary, and whether tourists were allowed to paddle out at this time of year.

The flavorful, classic Long Island Blue Points are a staple of oyster bars everywhere. There are so many ways to prepare an oyster, but I prefer to eat mine with nothing on them at all, naked, as it’s called, the better to taste their quintessential oyster-ness. Eaten live and whole, and tasting strongly of their specific environment, raw oysters are perhaps the most wild of modern foods. To eat a raw oyster for the first time, one must dare to. What other meat do we consume while it is still living?

Emslie in 1988. Steve, now a marine biology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, is a tall man with a friendly face and warm smile. He has since devoted his career to the study of seabirds, but was roped into monitoring the elephant seals for PRBO in the 1980s. At the time, the project’s longest-lived Farallon-born seal, a female, started life as “Pink 49” but later came to be called Abbey. She was a favorite of Steve and his colleague, Bill Sydeman, and was feisty and strong-willed.

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