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nps_to_sfrwqcb_2010_nov_10_tb_annual_cert.pdf
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Wonder how a national park can have the highest levels of water contamination?  Wonder why the park service does nothing about the land exploitation taking place via the ranchers within a national seashore?
Read below to try and make sense of it for yourself, but the explanation provided through paperwork seems to be that it is an accepted practice to overlook these violations and not enforce methods of improvement for the Point Reyes Ranchers.

These are Annual Certification and Compliance forms (attached) that the NPS fills out and files on water quality in PRNS.  These give an idea of the slapdash, negligent, corner-cutting, pro-forma approach the NPS takes to this problem.  
 
From the green letter to the SF Water Quality Board, scroll down to the forms themselves, 10 for this batch of 10 ranches.  
 
Note that on question no. 4, “Are further management practices needed to improve water quality?” the answer is always “Yes.” 
 
Note that just below that where the form asks for “Date/Location/Describe Water Quality Concern/Notes,” the acting superintendent John Dell’Osso, or some other NPS officer, ignoring those categories, scrawls across them the same answer, verbatim, for all 10 ranches:
 
“We are developing projects working through NRCS EQIP & awaiting funding opportunities." 
 
Note that the inspections of all 10 ranches, and surveys downstream of the ranches, are supposed to have happened over the same 2 days.  
 
This is the routine from superintendent to superintendent, from year to year, and decade to decade. Few ranches are ever in compliance. But nothing ever changes and no consequences are enforced so why would any of them be in compliance? 
 
In Point Reyes it is tradition to violate nature. 
READ FOR YOURSELF BELOW
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  • Truth isn't Easy
    • MALT Considerations
    • The Families (Overview Page) >
      • Mendoza
    • Morning Cup of Cow Shit
    • Adequate Water
    • Regenerative Ranching Debunked
    • An Ecologist's Tour of Point Reyes
    • Wildlife Biologist 1
    • Ignoring the Public
    • Ranching Association
    • All Bonus Video Material
    • 50 Minutes of Destruction
    • 45 Minutes of Marin Destruction
    • Debunking Propaganda
    • Calf Reality
    • Cruelty: Standard Practice
    • Plant Ecology Crash Course
  • Take Action
    • Local Voices Project
    • Contacting Officials and Papers
    • Newsletter signup
    • Contact the Filmmaker
    • Social Media
    • Contact PRNS
    • Plan a screening
    • CBD Action Page
    • Public Comment
  • Resources
    • Regenerative Bullshit
    • Fire
    • Documents >
      • An Administrative History
      • Plants and Cattle
      • Water Waivers
      • Leases
      • Point Blue Study - Ranching Harms Native Birds
      • Ranching and Ravens - Audobon Study
      • Responsive Management Survey
      • FOIA / Rancher Violations
      • PRNS Coastal Watershed Assessment
      • Top Crappy Places
      • An Administrative History of PRNS
      • Original Legislation
      • Ranchers Fighting Against the Seashore
      • The Dynastic Wealth of Point Reyes Ranch Families
    • 'This Land' - The Uncomfortable Truth
    • Bruce Keegan History
    • The New Threat
    • Plan F
    • Facts VS. Myths
    • By The Numbers
    • For Elk
    • Nature in National Parks
  • Sign Up