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Seawolf gives some good advice and I know Karl is involved with the MBBA. Calling people a bunch of crazy treehuggers, enviro wackos or whatever suits your fancy gets you nowhere. The fact is that when an animal is on the endangered species list, a host of federal laws come into effect to protect it.
If you don't deal with these people that you view as the enemy on a rational level you will be doing more harm than good and give them more justifiable reason in their minds to restrict access. Let's face it, they view most fisherman as a bunch of trash throwing social misfits. The smart thing to do is to support those who take up the cause to be actively engaged like the fishing clubs and buggy associations. Let the people who chose to become knowledgeable on the issues discuss the concerns, and never ever mess with a nesting area.
Like it or not, the state Audobon societies are funded by wealthy and politically connected members in our communities, I recently saw the annual financial report from the RI Audobon Society that they send out to their members and they have assets as I recall in the order of $25 million. I would expect Massachusetts Audobon is many times as big as that. We have to stick up for our rights but we have to work with them.
Ed
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