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I agree with both Flap and Slip. The Seashore administration does have its hands tied, and even though these meetings have now been exposed as a joke and a waste of time, to just throw it in is an unacceptable alternative. The dune tours guys have access through #8 - we gotta push for that. I'm tired of the beach community taking all the burden of the beach closings - it's time to share the load. It's time for other user groups to feel a little inconvenience. That was the main excuse of the head bird (see you next tuesday) the infamous 'ace in the hole' comment of the meeting. After dealing with total beach closure over the last two years I'm not feeling a lot of sympathy for any 'potential adverse impact on the dune community' because they have to see our trucks drive past them, just like the dune tours and the rangers do. Steve, there is plenty of birdless beach out there, we just got to force them to allow us access to it.
Bruce, I don't know about the regs regarding the dates. I think that Fish and Game makes it up as they go along, and Price rubber stamps it because Prokov (or Prokoff, whatever) is and incompetent and has no plan. These bureaucratic lifers just don't want to rock the boat until their next plum assignment comes along, and I think they need to have more pressure, like picketing their homes and such, to bring home the point that we've had it. Remember: Fish and Game is filled with environmental ideological zealots and want the whole world, never mind the beach, turned into a nature preserve. And they have their act and their talking points together. No one is out there pushing our cause like that. And the rangers that do (and there are a lot of them) are ignored or forced into retirement.
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