thought Cape Cod National Seashore is bad?

[Joe]

Really think about the loss of access in the aggregate. Restrictions based upon resident only access. The b.s. privatization of roads that were built, plowed, and maintained by public tax dollars. The rise of exclusive waterfront neighborhoods without street parking. Nighttime parking restrictions for no real reason. Closures due to complaints by residents without evidence. The illegal blocking, or privatization of roadways leading to historical-right-of ways.
In the bird protection areas and the recent restrictions placed upon access to the National Seashore areas, sure they were the impetus. But how much of the striper coast consists of National Seashore?
To pin it on the environmentalists, and to paint them as the greatest threat, is a gross over-simplification of the issue in its totality.

[zimmy]

Originally Posted by Joe

To pin it on the environmentalists, and to paint them as the greatest threat, is a gross over-simplification of the issue in its totality.

Good point. It wasn't the environmentalists that took away most of the CT shore. In fact, as much as I hate the Audubon for their actions in NC, their sanctuary in CT has protected access that is partially lost to a" private road" and would have likely been totally lost otherwise. National parks and seashores have protected huge expanses of land for use by all Americans, while protecting biodiversity. Their is a powerful segment pushing to turn them all into preserves through bad science and that is a problem.