Author: Jeff Creque - Global Ecology and Drakes Bay Oysters

If the National Park Service and the Environmental Action Committee and others are successful in shutting down Drakes Bay Oyster Farm and then follow the Center for Biological Diversity plan to shut down all the farms on the Point Reyes Peninsula, we are headed for big trouble.
Jeff Creque's Op Ed piece in the Marin Independent Journal Aug 25, 2013, explains the faulty reasoning behind their battle for 'wilderness' and why it doesn't work. Read it here. 

What Trainer Did in Washington

Someone asked what Trainer did up in Washington? If you have time to watch the first half of this show, you can learn a lot. Or, take a minute and read how she falsely accused a homeowner of violating ordinances, calling a halt to their home reconstruction, when they had permits in order and had taken the extra expense of hiring a specialist to make sure the permits had been been done properly. Trainer picked and chose minor parts of ordinances, etc. without investigating the situation as a whole. Sound familiar to people in Marin?

Did Trainer Feed False Info to Yellow Journalist Known for Kardashian Gossip? Then Tweet It?

Trainer immediately tweets false story after yellow journalist, Dina Exil publishes it combining year old information with a news story 3,000 miles away. The story claims DBOC, which never sells oysters that have to travel farther than their trucks can drive in a few hours, was part of an East Coast health warning.

How did Trainer know about the story and tweet about it so fast? She can't come up with the evidence that she found it in a tweet that doesn't seem to exist.

After DBOC lawyers contacted Trainer's lawyers, the tweet was removed. But, DBOC saw it and we have it:

Food Safety News, which was quoted in the false story, decried the false story here. Trainer and EAC must realize they are have smirched the reputation of the Environmental Action Committee, a once loved and supported non-profit. To what end? To eliminate a major source of organic food in Marin? Do realize they could be forcing a situation where  almost all of our food would have to travel on barges from Asia? Is that environmentalism?  Is Trainer is an invasive entity in West Marin, a traveling trouble-maker who leaves when the iron gets hot like she did in Colorado and Washington?

EAC board members, would you please let Trainer go on about her way before this tragic situation gets any worse here?

Center for Biological Diversity - New Story

Recent story published in Range Magazine. NPS Superintendent Neubacher reportedly said CBD wanted all farms off of Point Reyes. What CBD is. 

Trainer - Colorado Experience 100 signatures on Petition

Here is the Petition at end of Trainer's work in Colorado. Some say she resigned because of it, some say she just left because the fire was getting to hot and that she only stays for a short while everywhere she had been. According to a Colorado journalist, Trainer had changed the mission statement of the resort that had been home to a "naturalist" group (a.k.a nudist camp) removing that important wording and forever changing the resort and taken away a 25 year tradition of twice a year fireworks. All of this was done behind closed doors, so 100 people became very upset. 100 people signed a petition that led to Trainer resigning as executive director of conservancy group, Orient Land Trust on the very day that the petition was evaluated at a special meeting of the board of directors.

 "IMO, hiring her was the biggest mistake ever made at OLT." - Colorado Journalist and OLT Member.

Scroll to end of petition to see the board's decision to accept Amy Trainer's resignation. Trainer began to work at EAC by October of the same year, 2010.

Did EAC know Trainer's past tactics - stirring up  other communities? In Washington, vocal community activists blame Trainer for the trouble with the Friends of the San Juans.

The Lunny family, which is still under a barrage of attacks at the hands of the Environmental Action Committee, told their story in 2010. EAC employee Trainer mentions only one member of the family as being the "owner," Kevin Lunny, in her work, which she describes as "to kick ass and take names."

The Lunny family, including all of the siblings, meets at least weekly, often by conference phone, to make decisions together. Kevin is the public spokesperson for the entire family in their efforts to keep the oyster farm open and protect all agriculture on the Point Reyes Peninsula. Some generous donations of time and energy by Kevin are listed here:

Trainer Misreads Law & Science

Sarah Rolph spells out EAC's spokesperson, Amy Trainer's misunderstanding of the law and science. Journalists are wise not to rely on Trainer for legal information as Trainer is not a member of the California Bar.

Jerry Friedman Thought Oyster Were Part of PRNS Agriculture

The person who was closest to EAC founder, Jerry Friedman, wrote to local papers today saying he is disappointed and disgusted with the organization's present actions. You couldn't get a better source to find out what was the original purpose of EAC.  Trainer's spin?

"Jerry Friedman, who drafted the wilderness bill for Senator Phillip Burton, had also expressed his opinion that mariculture had been included under the broader term of agriculture as a protected entity in the park."-William Barrett