LEGISLATIVE HISTORY OUTLINES CONGRESS AND PUBLIC'S SUPPORT FOR DRAKES ESTERO WILDERNESS IN 2012

Legal Analysis and references, including House Report, Senate Report, legislative hearings
  - Overview of the 1976 Point Reyes Wilderness Act (including legislative history), NPS management policies, the 1964 Wilderness Act, and wilderness case law

Department of Interior Solicitor's Legal Report on Drakes Estero Wilderness status (2004)
  - Department of Interior legal department explains why the oyster operation is mandated to be removed in 2012 to allow for full wilderness protections

Drake's Bay Oyster Company's Reservation of Use (non-renewable operating rights contract) (1972)
  - Held by Johnson's oyster company from 1972-2005, purchased by Drake's Bay Oyster Company in 2005

STATE AND FEDERAL AGENCIES CONFIRM NPS LAWS AND POLICIES HAVE PRIMARY JURISDICTION OF MARICULTURE WITHIN DRAKES ESTERO

California Coastal Commission letter to NPS (2011)
   - Coastal Commission confirms that mariculture is not public fishing, and that NPS laws and policies have primary jurisdiction over mariculture within Drakes Estero (pg 13) 

California Department of Fish and Game Letter to National Park Service (2007)
  - Confirms NPS laws and policies have primary jurisdiction of mariculture within Drakes Estero, and that the State of California does not

California Department of Fish and Game letter to Assemblyman Jared Huffman (2008)
  - State of California, again, confirms NPS laws and policies have primary jurisdiction of mariculture within Drakes Estero, and that the State of California does not

California State Lands Commission letter to oyster company advocates (2007)
  - Confirms State Lands Commission lacks jurisdiction of mariculture within Drakes Estero

COLUMNS BY LOCAL AND NATIONAL CONSERVATION LEADERS

Column by Amy Meyer, vice-chairwoman of the former federal advisory commission for the Point Reyes National Seashore, 8/2/11

Column by Gordon Bennett, President of Save Our Seashore, 7/28/11

Column by Save Our Seashore, Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, and Wild Equity Institute, 6/23/11

Column by Marty Griffin, co-founder of Audubon Canyon Ranch and the Environmental Forum of Marin, and author of "Saving the Marin-Sonoma Coast", 9/23/09

Column by Nona Dennis, President of Marin Conservation League, 7/30/09

Column by Fred Smith, Executive Director, Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, 1/21/09

Column by Carolyn Longstreth , Esq., President, Environmental Action Committee of West Marin, 2/26/09 (longer version)

Column by National Parks Conservation Association and The Wilderness Society, 11/6/07