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Bigfish,
The people who vote on this particular price rise are the Board of the Trustees with input from the local managment team probably. The trustees run 80 to 90 properties in the Commonwealth of Mass. such as the Crane reservation, Cape Pogue, Worlds End and so on. From the feedback I have received so far that this is taking place because the residents who abut Cape Pogue are disturbed over increases in traffic during the summer months on the little spit of land. Thats to bad about traffic increase. The island roads are public ways. They can't keep us of them thats for sure. I know the people who own the on-time ferry will be upset over less people taking the ferry to gt to Cape Pogue. The bass derby might suffer beacuse many people go to the Vineyard just to fish this area only.
Like I said in my email to the trustees and the MV derby committee chairman, prices rises that reflect cost increases from one year to the next are acceptable, but when prices rise in one year (87.5%)it doesn't reflect cost increases from one year to the next it reflects cost increases from one generation to the next in one years span of time.
I remember the day that the Cape Cod National Seashore was officially dedicated by Bob & Ted Kennedy on behalf of his brother the president. When that old black helicopter landed at the middle school in Eastham in 1961 it signaled a change in public policy regarding open space that no one then could truly understand as they do now. My 10 year old friend and I were there to see it land, and we rode our bikes to the dedication at the visitors center and heard Bobby speak about what the national seashore would do for the Cape. For the most part it has been benificial to the towns of Eastham and beyond all the way to P-town. But their are drawbacks. The towns lose most if not all of their say in what happens there. Property owners no longer could sell outside of the family. I'm sure you have seen many things change over the years with all of your beach travel down the lower cape.
What it really boils down to with all of this is that the people who have money think they can make all the rules. The individuals who first joined and made the Trustees of Reservations a powerful entity were the birdwatchers and treehuggers. Powerful monied resdients who enjoy this type of atmosphere and activity had another place to donate their tax deductable donations so the trustees could buy up large tracts of land such as Cape Pogue. For the most part their intentions are reputable and above board, with the exception of this price increase. To me it represents the hypocrasy of that invisible line between the people who have money and those that sweat and toil to make the monied people richer. When some of Chappaqui#^&#^&#^&#^&'s resident can pressure the trustees to decrease traffic by increasing permits fees its simply class warfare disguised as something else. All though the miles of beaches out there do not belong to them the monied residents there think they can institute policy within the trustees organization.
What really sad is that the PETA crowd has moved in on the island to some extent I'm sure, and to me they are nothing more than terrorists who give life to thier opinons by donating large sums of money to organizations that opposed just about every outdoor activity we participate in. I have said enough I have to split some wood.