And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
reported by Martha Ture
Dear friends and family and the rest of y'all too -
This is to notify you that on Tuesday, April 6, the Marin County Board of
Supervisors signed to the settlement of the CEQA lawsuit brought two years
ago, May 8, 1997. Under the terms of the settlement, enforcement of the laws
against illegal use of trails by bikers must begin no later than Tuesday,
April 13. Enforcement as defined in the settlement means citation writing,
not merely the issuance of warnings. The settlement stipulates that rangers
will be present in Cascade Canyon a minimum 3 days a week. The settlement
also limits the length of time of the enforcement to one month. That's the
most we could get out of them.
This means that for one month it will be a citable offense to ride down old
ladies, beat up women and children, ride on foot paths, cut new trails,
chainsaw trees, divert water courses, or trespass on private property - in
other words, practice mountain biking.
As for restoration of damaged hills, that is to begin also but let's for now
celebrate with the mighty hunt for the endangered redlegged frog. Gather
here Saturday, April 10, at 11 a.m. and bring your mudwallowers. I'll
provide the buckets. We'll go up above the waterfall and to Blackpools, and
forming a line in the deep end, and placing pickets at the shallow end, we
will drive the frogs before us. Videotaping will be done by Gwenn and Terri.
This will become part of the official record of the species of Cascade
Canyon, for Leonard Charles' management report. Mr. Charles has not yet been
apprised of this fact.
Meanwhile, Terri beat the bikers like a gong on Tuesday night when the
Fairfax Town Council voted to accept her proposal over and against the
mountain bikers' proposal for a transportation committee. And Sara beat the
County, learning through Leonard Charles that the County acknowledges they
don't in fact own access to her property or to the Boy Scouts' property via
Scenic-Ridge trails.
In the pre-white days when the Hookooeekoo lived in this canyon (Interviews
with Tom Smith & Maria Copa, Isabel Kelly's Ethnographic Notes on the Coast
Miwok Indians of Marin and Southern Sonoma Counties, California, edited by
Collier and Thalman, MAPOM Occasional Paper Number Six, San Rafael, CA 1996),
a sorority of women was designated to depose senile rulers. These ladies
were known as The Gopher-Breasted Women. I don't know why. But their gig
was to first gently talk with the superannuated authority and explain how
attractive retirement could be.
If that didnt work they reasoned with him about the way he was screwing up.
If that didnt work they started doing his work for him.
And if that didnt work they poisoned him to death with the roots of the
native ground iris.
The native ground iris grows in my native plant garden, east side of the
house.
Viva las Tetas Roedoras!
Martha E. Ture
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