Excellent read. Thank you and a big hello to Marty ; )
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Kit Zegers
9 years ago
My family and I do not want a National Monument without a strategy for dealing with all the visitors. We have not funding to support a deluge of people to our North Coast!
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John K Gamman
9 years ago
I am a Santa Cruz resident and have recreated on the north coast for man years. The north coast is a special place, wildlands within an hours drive of millions of people in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. The north coast should be protected but not by designating it as a traditional national monument. The area simply lacks the infrastructure to support a monument designation. The inevitable increase visitor impacts on the ecosystem and its wildlife could be significant. These lands should be protected in a manner that conserves the ecosystem and its wildlife. Some sort of new hybrid conservation authority and management should be throughly examined, with large-scale public input, before a monument designation is further considered.
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Miranda Janeschild
9 years ago
This land is well protected under current plans, with access for recreation as well as good rural uses of the land. National monument status will put increased negative pressures on the ecosystems from increased tourism, not to mention increased traffic, congestion, and pollution in Santa Cruz, rural residential communities, and the beaches along the coast north of Santa Cruz. The only winners will be businesses selling goods to the tourists. Please put more time and study in how best to preserve this land before jumping to monument status. Thank you.
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Brenda Barcelo
9 years ago
NO
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Peter Boffey
9 years ago
In this case, local knowledge & history trump from-the-top-down 'optimism'. Let's not love it to death, especially in the interests of promoting more tourism that can ruin such an area!
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Anonymous
9 years ago
It is hard to believe that there has been no public discussion of this proposal.
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Roland Edwards
9 years ago
We live on Scaroni near five mile. It is already an out of control damage control disaster down here. Please we beg you just NO NO NO!!!!!
And where is everyone going to go poop? We're already overrun here with human feces and paper to wipe, the 'Coastal KOA' (NOT) nightmare bildge dumping trespassers. We've lived here over 50 years and its never been this bad. This bringing in more people with no infrastructure undermines our way of life! Just NO!
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John Mazetier
10 years ago
A bad idea for good reasons is still a bad idea.
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Gary Niblock
10 years ago
Thanks to FONC and the other groups allied to present all our concerns re this important issue. I urge our elected officials to please incorporate the important points here into the bills in question re national monument status.
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Brent Zacharia
10 years ago
I am a resident of Bonny Doon and do not support the establishment of the Coast Dairies National Monument. The property is already protected. This area already has enough traffic and use, and designating it a National Monument will lead to:
-overuse
-vandalism and trash left on the side of the road
-an increase in drunk driving
-illegal camping
-an increased potential of forest fires
Brent Zacharia
Bonny Doon, California
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Susanne Pomeroy
10 years ago
My family and I live on Coast Rd. Just about 2 miles before Davenport in a 100 year-old home that was built in 1914 by Thomas & Sarah Majors on land they obtained from a woman who had been "given" it as part of a large "land grant" called Rancho Refugio. On the road we live on there is a lot of history. We've been told no more building allowed here which I agree with. We are the newest folks here, having bought our home from an 85 year old woman living here alone. She moved into Dominican Oaks. In the nearly 3 years we've been here we have come to love & live with all the wildlife -- it's not always "easy" but IT IS MORE THAN WORTH IT. With all "wild places" disappearing all over the world. It would be a TRAGEDY to let it happen HERE, in our own backyards. By the way, we live on the "coast side" off Hwy.1 (Cabrillo Hwy./Coast Hwy.) All there is between us & the ocean is a field of brussels sprouts. Like most of our neighbors we feel tied to this place and believe it has a right to exist. Please look forward- not just 10 years or 20-but "generations" forward in time, knowing that what we due to this ecosystem may NEVER be undone. It may take time but I have the faith that nature acts & reacts with a PURPOSE-- often even human scientists can't predict the future of an ecosystem. Let's be responsible to the wildlife and land FIRST and act with compassion for a place that has just as much right to exist as we do. Let's err on the side of CAUTION. Thank you.
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marty ryhanych
10 years ago
Please do not hurry this decision. The community needs to make benefit analysis.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Public services must be increased, roads widen and public toilets and trash containers provided. California forest fires will increase. Wild life will suffer.
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Lee Mark Bickers
10 years ago
I oppose National Monument Status as we have enough Government intrusion and I want no part in contributing to a Barbara Boxer legacy.
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Patty Walters
10 years ago
Please take your time!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
The impact of a national monument at Cost Dairies will make it tremendously more painful for residents to live simply.
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Keresha Durham
10 years ago
I am puzzled about the enormous, well-financed push to make the Coast Dairies lands into a National Monument before a careful and complete environmental review is completed. I want to add my voice in opposition (as an concerned individual, not representing the Sierra Club). Important information is lacking and I fear the public is uninformed. Many have fought to preserve our gorgeous North Coast, and this land is fully protected already! There is no threat to this land other than mismanagement and human overuse. No real reason to push for a National Monument if only for the slim possibility, and it is not guaranteed, of getting some federal funds. Who will benefit from the impact and potential tsunami of visitors to our North Coast? Who really benefits from this big rush? Not the residents of Santa Cruz or the North Coast as our quality of life will be negatively impacted with more tourist traffic and habitat affected. The visitors themselves will not benefit from an overcrowded park that was not planned. Good science and planning is needed first to prevent an expensive, major mistake and to stop damage to an irreplaceable, natural heritage site!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Concern about availability of public safety agencies which would be necessary, effect of tourism on local neighborhoods, and unexpected environmental damage.
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karen miller
10 years ago
It should stay preserved coastal land NOT a National Monument!!!! It would bring more traffic and people destroying the land rather than saving it!!!!
Excellent read. Thank you and a big hello to Marty ; )
My family and I do not want a National Monument without a strategy for dealing with all the visitors. We have not funding to support a deluge of people to our North Coast!
I am a Santa Cruz resident and have recreated on the north coast for man years. The north coast is a special place, wildlands within an hours drive of millions of people in Silicon Valley and the Bay Area. The north coast should be protected but not by designating it as a traditional national monument. The area simply lacks the infrastructure to support a monument designation. The inevitable increase visitor impacts on the ecosystem and its wildlife could be significant. These lands should be protected in a manner that conserves the ecosystem and its wildlife. Some sort of new hybrid conservation authority and management should be throughly examined, with large-scale public input, before a monument designation is further considered.
This land is well protected under current plans, with access for recreation as well as good rural uses of the land. National monument status will put increased negative pressures on the ecosystems from increased tourism, not to mention increased traffic, congestion, and pollution in Santa Cruz, rural residential communities, and the beaches along the coast north of Santa Cruz. The only winners will be businesses selling goods to the tourists. Please put more time and study in how best to preserve this land before jumping to monument status. Thank you.
NO
In this case, local knowledge & history trump from-the-top-down 'optimism'. Let's not love it to death, especially in the interests of promoting more tourism that can ruin such an area!
It is hard to believe that there has been no public discussion of this proposal.
We live on Scaroni near five mile. It is already an out of control damage control disaster down here. Please we beg you just NO NO NO!!!!! And where is everyone going to go poop? We're already overrun here with human feces and paper to wipe, the 'Coastal KOA' (NOT) nightmare bildge dumping trespassers. We've lived here over 50 years and its never been this bad. This bringing in more people with no infrastructure undermines our way of life! Just NO!
A bad idea for good reasons is still a bad idea.
Thanks to FONC and the other groups allied to present all our concerns re this important issue. I urge our elected officials to please incorporate the important points here into the bills in question re national monument status.
I am a resident of Bonny Doon and do not support the establishment of the Coast Dairies National Monument. The property is already protected. This area already has enough traffic and use, and designating it a National Monument will lead to: -overuse -vandalism and trash left on the side of the road -an increase in drunk driving -illegal camping -an increased potential of forest fires Brent Zacharia Bonny Doon, California
My family and I live on Coast Rd. Just about 2 miles before Davenport in a 100 year-old home that was built in 1914 by Thomas & Sarah Majors on land they obtained from a woman who had been "given" it as part of a large "land grant" called Rancho Refugio. On the road we live on there is a lot of history. We've been told no more building allowed here which I agree with. We are the newest folks here, having bought our home from an 85 year old woman living here alone. She moved into Dominican Oaks. In the nearly 3 years we've been here we have come to love & live with all the wildlife -- it's not always "easy" but IT IS MORE THAN WORTH IT. With all "wild places" disappearing all over the world. It would be a TRAGEDY to let it happen HERE, in our own backyards. By the way, we live on the "coast side" off Hwy.1 (Cabrillo Hwy./Coast Hwy.) All there is between us & the ocean is a field of brussels sprouts. Like most of our neighbors we feel tied to this place and believe it has a right to exist. Please look forward- not just 10 years or 20-but "generations" forward in time, knowing that what we due to this ecosystem may NEVER be undone. It may take time but I have the faith that nature acts & reacts with a PURPOSE-- often even human scientists can't predict the future of an ecosystem. Let's be responsible to the wildlife and land FIRST and act with compassion for a place that has just as much right to exist as we do. Let's err on the side of CAUTION. Thank you.
Please do not hurry this decision. The community needs to make benefit analysis.
Public services must be increased, roads widen and public toilets and trash containers provided. California forest fires will increase. Wild life will suffer.
I oppose National Monument Status as we have enough Government intrusion and I want no part in contributing to a Barbara Boxer legacy.
Please take your time!
The impact of a national monument at Cost Dairies will make it tremendously more painful for residents to live simply.
I am puzzled about the enormous, well-financed push to make the Coast Dairies lands into a National Monument before a careful and complete environmental review is completed. I want to add my voice in opposition (as an concerned individual, not representing the Sierra Club). Important information is lacking and I fear the public is uninformed. Many have fought to preserve our gorgeous North Coast, and this land is fully protected already! There is no threat to this land other than mismanagement and human overuse. No real reason to push for a National Monument if only for the slim possibility, and it is not guaranteed, of getting some federal funds. Who will benefit from the impact and potential tsunami of visitors to our North Coast? Who really benefits from this big rush? Not the residents of Santa Cruz or the North Coast as our quality of life will be negatively impacted with more tourist traffic and habitat affected. The visitors themselves will not benefit from an overcrowded park that was not planned. Good science and planning is needed first to prevent an expensive, major mistake and to stop damage to an irreplaceable, natural heritage site!
Concern about availability of public safety agencies which would be necessary, effect of tourism on local neighborhoods, and unexpected environmental damage.
It should stay preserved coastal land NOT a National Monument!!!! It would bring more traffic and people destroying the land rather than saving it!!!!