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Click here to read Bolinas Lagoon Foundation's letter to Bill Carmen in response to the consultants' report released on February 10. Please join us and send in your comments as well. Comments must be received by March 31. (If you would prefer to endorse our comments rather than write your own, please sign the letter where indicated, date, and return to us by March 31, in the envelope provided.)
The report is available on-line at the Open Space District's web site (www.marinopenspace.org); in public libraries in Bolinas, Stinson Beach and Marin County; from an e-mail directed to scrubjay@sbcglobal.net; or on a compact disk from Bill Carmen (William Carmen, Project Manager, Bolinas Lagoon Ecosystem Restoration Feasibility Study, MCOSD, 3501 Civic Center Drive, Suite 415, San Rafael, CA 94903). Comments should be addressed to Bill Carmen at this same address.
The time for specific recommendations will come later in the year. But now is the time to go on record, as saying either that the condition of Bolinas Lagoon, as projected in the consultants' report, is what we want or is not what we want. The projected conditions are not what Bolinas Lagoon Foundation wants. Bolinas Lagoon Foundation wants a Bolinas Lagoon with greater habitat and species diversity than that described in the February 10 report, in essence, a healthier Bolinas Lagoon!
If we don't get involved now, and apathy carries the day, there probably won't be a Bolinas Lagoon Ecosystem Restoration Project, now or later. If that happens, and we return to a “wait and see” attitude, with more studies, we'll be like the shepherd boy who cried, “Wolf! Wolf!” We should take advantage of the current public interest and support, and act now! Our federal, state and local elected representatives are supportive; our government agencies are supportive; donor organizations are supportive; and the public is supportive. We have momentum. What better time could there be to start a restoration program?
Project bulletins, correspondence and status updates continue to be available at the MCOSD’s web site: www.marinopenspace.org.
Bucky Mace
For the Foundation Board