Media Scare Tactics and Manipulating Law - Center for Biological Diversity

It has been no secret that once the Center for Biological Diversity trashed the oyster farm, they would go after the ranchers.

Here is a simple explanation of their disturbing tactics.

http://www.undueinfluence.com/Center_for_Biological_Diversity.htm

"Self-description: As the country's leading endangered species advocates, the Center for Biological Diversity works through science, law, and creative media to secure a future for all species, great or small, hovering on the brink of extinction.
Actual: Anti-industry legal attack group uses the Endangered Species Act and media scare tactics as a weapon to destroy America's industrial strength and resource production by bringing lawsuits against a wide spectrum of resource use companies, private property owners and against government to stop resource use. The Center for Biological Diversity lost a 2005 defamation lawsuit to fifth-generation rancher Jim Chilton of Arivaca, Arizona, when a jury awarded him $600,000, including $500,000 in punitive damages for falsely accusing him of damaging the range. The Center appealed the decision to the Arizona State Supreme Court and lost again in 2007" - from "Undue Influence"

Who is *Really* Behind Fight to Oust DBOC - "Too Many Lawsuits"

Rather than saving species and conserving their habitats, the ESA is used as a sword to tear down the American economy, drive up food, energy and housing costs and wear down and take out rural communities and counties. Center for Biological Diversity and it's followers such as the Environmental Action Committee believe they influence left-leaning thinkers not to pay attention to anything at all that comes from the right. If CBD's actions harm the environment, it may be time to take a look at all sides of the issue. CBD, which brags about killing 4-5,000 mostly family farms, got over 2 million dollars in 3 years from the federal government in a twisted series of aggressive lawsuits. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman, Doc Hastings reports on "too many lawsuits" here.  

"...the Center for Biological Diversity was involved in over 50 individual cases, open between 2009 and 2012, where they were the lead plaintiff. "

It is important to watch CBD in order to protect local agriculture and to prevent the loss of more farms, especially the few farms left on the Point Reyes Peninsula.

"Our government and its corporate sponsors have created a system of subsidies that has to be abolished. They turned the lands into a commodity. We have to get public land users off this welfare system. It is not a simple thing to break those chains." - Kieran Suckling, Founder, Center for Biological Diversity

For a well-documented overview of how the Center for Biological Diversity, with roots in Trainer's San Juan Islands, manages to kill off over 4,000 farms, most of them multi-generational family farms without a hint of guilt, skip on over to sister-site, trojanheron.blogspot.com. Succinct summary there.

Time to protect Pt. Reyes farms!

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. 

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.