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The reason I provided you with historical background and a little development history of Dana Point is to make a point about the development of the environmental movement in America and the future of California today

The construction of the Dana Point Harbor took place in an era of no environmental impact reports, no California Coastal Commission, no endangered species act, and no archeological assessment reports as now required by the federal law.

It turns out the building of the harbor not only put the death nail into the coffin of several endangered species it destroyed one of what many consider to be one of the most important archeological native American Indian Sites in North America and at the the time nobody cared. Forget about losing one of the ten best waves in America.

The Harbor at Dana Point was built in 1966 four years after the publishing of a book by Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, the catalyst for the beginning of the environmental movement in America, in the late 1960's and early 1970's.

Carson's work became a rallying point for Americans that cared about nature, habitat and the non human inhabitants in California and the rest of the country and world.

Silent Spring articulated the American public's growing awareness of harmful toxins in pesticides and there devastating effects on wildlife and bird populations like the brown pelicans that use to roost in big populations, on the land above the Harbor.

Back in 1962 Robert White-Stevens an American Cyanmid biochemist involved in the growing production and proliferation of DDT which was known to kill every biologic organism it came into contact with, spoke out vehemently against, Ms. Carson and a book that is today considered a seminal classic.

Even though DDT was devastating bird populations all over the world, he called Rachel Carson " a fanatic defender of the cult of the balance of nature ", and added " if man were to follow the teachings of Miss Carson, we would return to the Dark Ages, and the insects, diseases and vermin would once again inherit the earth."

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture at the time Ezra Taft Benson told former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, " that because she was unmarried, despite being physically attractive, she was " probably a Communist."

The reality of DDT is that birds, such as Brown Pelicans the species of which date back to almost prehistoric times, incubate their eggs with body heat from their feet, by standing on their eggs to keep them warm. DDT creates a calcium binding effect in the Pelican's blood causing thinner egg shells that crack under the weight of adult birds.

Other negative impacts such as petrochemicals, plastics, in the marine environment, and habitat distruction by development like the Dana Point Harbor and the Irvine Coast part of which is romantically named the Pelican Hills Resort after the very habitat and original denizens it destroyed.

Near extinction from North America in the 1960's and 1970's, the Brown Pelicans made an almost miraculous comeback thru the eighties and ninties thanks to pesticide regulations that were mostly enacted due to public reaction to Carson's book and a decade of poorly funded scientific research blocked by the pesticide producers, finally validated the content of Rachel Carson's book.

Ironically after great progress it appears that Brown Pelican populations like fellow ocean denizens the California sea otter are on the decline again.

Likewise an anti nuclear power activiist in the 1970's named Karen Silkwood represents another pivitol moment in environmental protectionism in America today.

Karen Silkwood was a whistle blower, what Santa Cruz drug dealers, the rappers, the criminal mexican " party people," who ripped off and then blocked the actualization of my intellectual property call me, a " rat," " a leak," Like me she was poisoned too by scumbags connected to the existing power structure.

In her case plutonium was placed in her apartment and she was left dying of cancer from exposure to radioactive materials. At the time the platinum exposure was beginning to ravage her body, she was, " probably run off the road," and murdered in a car accident that was staged to look like an accident.

Just for the record, my first year in Santa Cruz, Cali. after my extensive intellectual property and plans to actualize them into movies, videos and books was stolen I was rear ended twice, run off the road next to a cliff five hundred feet over the sea. My antilock brakes in my Jeep were sabotaged by Mexican Mechanics at Sears and I was set up for what should of been a fatal head on crash into the center divider on the freeway.

I am not grandstanding Rachel Carson's book or claiming to be as important to the political progressive enviornmental movement as Karen Silkwood however the reality is I was in the middle of writting a book about the history of Calif and land developement issues and finishing the fourth draft of a screen play called Seven Circles about the need for a new spiritual and creative renaissance in the younger generations in the process of being programmed to emulate gangster trash. I have had hundreds of songs stolen by organized Crime that controls Santa Cruz that has appeared all over Hollywood and Nashville in Pop, Country and Rap music and videos. (see my flip side web site: schatemongers.simdif.com)

Karen Silkwood was employed as a technician at the Kerr-McGee Cimarron River nuclear facility in Crescent, Oklahoma. She discovered serious health and safety violations at the plant. After gathering evidence she was attempting to deliver a manila folder full of documented evidence about the dangerous and criminal practices of her employer and alleged health and safety violations at the plant to a New York Times reporter and national union representative. Seven miles out of Crescent City her car plunged off an embankment in a suspicious accident. Silkwood was killed in the crash, and the manila envelope was never found.

Kerr-McGee was a prominent and well respected Oklahoma employer just like Oneill, Volcom, Hurley, RUCA, all users cf my stolen (IP) are in Santa Cruz. Because of their local influence and economic power had never been challenged or suspected. The Atomic Energy Commission under great pressure from the public and a few powerful political figures eventually confirmed three violations at the Cimarron plant, which was phased out and shut down.

Silkwood is viewed as a martyr by anti-nuclear activists; in 1983, her story was made into a film, Silkwood starring Meryl Streep. The legacy of the Silkwood case continues to this day in the on-going debate over the safety of nuclear technology.

Think about the radiation still being released at Chernobyl, Three Mile Island and now in Sychira Japan, long forgotten by most main stream media and the general publics short term memory problems.

There is still no relief or remade to fix these leaks or to dispose of the fuel rods used all over the world to generate electric energy thru Nuclear Fission. ( click here to see the movies Silkwood and China Syndrome).( Click here to read about recent break throughs in the development of Nuclear Fussion witch is a cleaner and safer alternative. )

Rachel Carsons seminal research on the effects of a pesticide called DDT, eventually forced the federal government to ban DDT in America.

Karen Silkwood changed the way an entire Industry does business and shut down two dangerous nuclear facilities. She caused new systems and procedures to be enacted to protect the workers at every nuclear facility in the world. Her death was a rallying point for new legislation to protect, " leaks," "rats,," and " whistle blowers like me.

Seems like today that kind of progressive thought is in deep retrograde with millions of kids enslaved by gangster drug dealer rappers making millions off the stupidity of youth.

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How the forces that create history at work.

If you don't protect it its going gone.

Once its gone is gone forever. Think about what is happening right now to the big catz all over the world.

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The wild and verdent coastline of California is almost gone forever replaced by harbors, condos, shopping centers and clogged freeways that inform, development.

To give you an idea how rich the wildlife was in this region of Southern Calif. in the early 1800's hunters killed two hundred and thirty five Bob (wild) Cats in sixty days on the old spanish Monserrat Rancho.)

A replica of Dana's ship the Pilgrim sets in the Harbor today. The construction of Dana Point Harbor has increased the pollution of the San Juan Creek and River at its mouth, at Doheny State Beach.

As the city of Dana Point has grown there are the Streets of the Golden Lantern Green and Red Lantern to remind residents and visitors of days gone bye, with endless condos, shopping centers, and real estate offices. You can find yuppies and retired drug dealers and hookers enjoying the good life being parasitic on all the new international affluence, traffic and dirty air the real estate developers and promoters attracted to the region.

Same story ten minutes north (a hakf hour in weekend traffic) at Salt Creek were the Ritz Carlton owns the beach in absentia that is suppose to belong to all of California. Same story ten miles up on the Irvine Coast (an hour away n weekend traffic) at Crystal Cove and Pelican Hills.

Wherever you live in California, better get it while you can, before what Author Tim McVay termed in the 1970's " the botiquing of the entire California Coast." I call the coca/pot cartel financed the new California Sodom and Gomorrah, because you know it well be all gone tomorrow.

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A lot of personal sacrifice, protests in the streets, political activism, hippie set ins, investigations, scientific research, books, lectures, ( back in the day when individual copy rights were respected and protected) that were inspired by the spirit and methodology of Rachel Carson and Silent Spring and Karen Silkwoods struggle and ultimate sacrifice eventually led to a another turning point in the protection of the world's natural environment, the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency in America, by the Nixon Administration in 1970.

The creation of the (EPA) and more importantly a new cabinet position in the white house dedicated to protecting and preserving the environment were milestones and turning points for the entire worlds point of view and attitude towards our survival on Earth. The Endangered Species Act and Clean Air and Water Acts followed in 1973 -1974.

From the 1969 Summer of Love until the slacker generations of the 80's and the introduction of crack and meth and three generations of ghetto trash and coca/pot cartel programmed kids to become " cop, US Military, and America haters," things were looking " up," and slowly improving for our stewardship of " the home planet."

Even the Pentagon and the Dept. of Defense accused as being the world's biggest and dirtiest polluters began to acknowledge mistakes and clean up there procurement, storage, and deployment of some of the most toxic substances known to mankind. Most people never took the time to recognize and acknowledge this amazing accomplishment on the part of caring citizens, scientists, academics, politicians and believe it or not some Admirals and Generals at the Pentagon.

The election of George Bush Jr. was a turning DOWN point in American Environmentalism, the dumbing down of our society and children and the introduction of mean and selfish spirit in our country.

The man who mockingly called himself " the environmental president," at a deceptively choreographed press conference at Soquia National Park and then systematically directed his staff of former anti environmental corporate lobbyist and attorney's and the EPA to find every loop hole in, and gut and recast environmental policy. Bush Jr. had every attorney, staffer who was sympathetic to the environmental movement reassigned or fired. His staff then cast new official guidelines, directives and executive orders, to undermine and gut fifty years of progressive environmental litigation and legislation, that cost the American People billions of dollars to put in place.

No wonder Mr. Bush Jr. is considered by many political scholars to be " the worst president America has ever elected." and " the least intelligent of all American Presidents."

It is hard for anyone born after 1980 to fully comprehend the importance of and the damage done by Bush Jrs. actions on both sides of environmentalism.

Now that the ghetto trash rappers have taken over Hollywood and Nashville, and the coca/pot cartel has a death grip on Sacramento and Washington DC, our childrens role models are "gangsters," and " drug dealers," who have re packaged themselves as " the world party of ethnic equality," witches total crap. This is Crime Inc. plan and simple.

Unfortunately today the Coca/Pot Cartel funded rap music industry has programmed the youth of America to hate the police and consider anyone who gets in the way of the " drug/ porno/ prostitution/ hacker/ bribery/ blackmail party in NorCal to be considered a " rat," " a leak," to be sabotated, hacked and poisoned in Santa Cruz California, at various food venues like Lulu Carpenters and Emily's Bakery by UCSC students working in food service.

The mexican mafia financed by the coca/pot cartel are busy bankrupting the school system, the medical system and ruining the criminal justice system in California today. See schatemongers.com.

Today all this progressive, protective legislation and governmental policy is being actively undermined in California and the USA. Decade number two of the twenty-first century is half way done and environmental policy is under scrutiny and attack in Congress with each election.

The level of undermining and reevaluation seems to be a replay and reflection of the republican to democratic balance and struggle for control of the direction of the countries environmental consciousness.

The global economy and new scientific research is demanding new policy for dealing with a threatening mix of climate change, the degradation of biological diversity, and the aggressive growth of China's industrialization, India's technological renaissance, and Brazil's desire to continue to urbanize and develope natural resources. All three of these economies represented unexploited environmental capitol banked in rain forest, huge continental expanses of undeveloped habitats and biotas and in many cases unknown and yet to be discovered biologic life that may provide opportunity to nurture and heal highly impacted humanity all over the globe.

The seven billion, rapidly expanding world population continues to compete for these resources in an era that by all indications the earth needs to be protected and healed with international and national cooperative policy and strategies that well insure survivability for all of us in the long term.

This requires vigilance and proactive actions by the scientific, financial, and governmental communities like the world has never seen before. The United States has always not always assumed a proactive role in this regard but has still provided leadership in perusing beneficial policy making for one side or the other in these issues.

It always comes down to economic interests vs environmental protectionism which only polarized and adds emotional rhetoric that clouds the real issues at hand. It has historically been proven that business interests can be successfully balanced with economic interests to precipitate a mutually beneficial effect for everyone.

The missing link in this equation is always the expressed and proactive will of the people. Mao Sao Tung the last Premier of China said it all The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history."

It is not businesses or government that manifest change in the world, it is the actions of people like YOU, individually and collectively, and as collective coalitions of groups that can make America a healthier, happier, stronger, country and change the world."

Think how the times have changed, the power of public sentiment and the majority of people that supported Rachel Carson when you see a V flight formation of Brown Pelicans skimming the surface of the Pacific.

It is a fact that without the unselfish and dedication of Rachel Carson and the publication of this one book the Brown Pelicans would have gone exstinct by 1975.

Think about it. Be challenged, engaged by the power of the internet not medicated and operated by it. Think for yourself and act on your concerns for me part of my actions involves the creation of this website and ziggysurfcatz.

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As an update to this column I just became aware of the following information that would of never happened without public sentiment: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Revises its Policy on Mitigating Impacts of Development to Further Conservation of the Nation’s Wildlife and their Habitats:

March 7, 2016 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) today announced new actions to mitigate the adverse impacts of land and water development on America’s wildlife and their habitats. A revision of the Service’s Mitigation Policy, which has guided agency recommendations to address these issues since 1981, will provide a broad and flexible framework to facilitate conservation that addresses the potential negative effects of development, while allowing economic activity to continue.

The revisions come on the heels of a recent Presidential memorandum directing certain federal agencies to adopt a common set of best practices to minimize the harmful impacts to wildlife and other ecological resources caused by land- or water-disturbing activities, and to ensure that any remaining harmful effects are appropriately addressed or mitigated.

“Effective mitigtion is a powerful tool for sustaining and recovering species and the habitats upon which they depend,” said Gary Frazer, Assistant Director for Ecological Services. “Our challenge in these times of growing pressures on native plants, animals and ecosystems is to make the most of mitigation efforts to benefit the long-term sustainability of wildlife populations on a landscape scale, while facilitating sustainable development.”

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THIS SYSTEM DID NOT EXIST BEFORE THE 1970's. LOOK AT HOW MUCH PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE

The mission of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is working with others to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people. We are both a leader and trusted partner in fish and wildlife conservation. For more information on our work and the people who make it happen, visit http://www.fws.gov

VENTURA, Calif. - A rare amphibian that has been lost from 70 percent of its historical range has been given a fighting chance to repopulate on state-protected lands in Los Angeles and Ventura counties.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and California State Parks have signed a Safe Harbor Agreement, a 50-year voluntary conservation agreement, that calls for the reestablishment of California red-legged frog (Rana draytonii) populations across four state parks in southern California, This species is both federally threatened and a state species of special concern.

”Collaborative, voluntary conservation efforts like this one are key to recovering imperiled wildlife in southern California,” said Eric Morrissette, senior fish and wildlife biologist for the Service in Ventura. “Through the Safe Harbor Program, private and non-federal landowners, like California State Parks, can proactively support species’ recovery by restoring or managing habitat for those species on their lands.

Established in 1987, the Ventura Fish and Wildlife Office works to conserve and protect threatened and endangered fish, wildlife and plants across the central and southern California coast, collaborating with communities and conservation partners to build a future that supports both people and our unique and diverse natural resources.

For more information, visit http://ventura.fws.gov

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Researcher Claudia Fugazza and her dog demonstrate the "Do As I Do" method; Fugazza's dog was not involved in the study itself.

ziggysutfcatz loves good dogs and all of the Lord God's creatures too:

Dogs May Possess a Type of Memory Once Considered 'Uniquely Human : New research suggests that man’s best friend remembers more than we thought.

by Ben Panko

SMITHSONIAN.COM

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Dogs remember things, as any dog owner can tell you. Whether it's knowing that the sound of food hitting the bowl means mealtime or recalling that the jingle of the leash means walk time, man's best friend consistently illustrates his ability to recount the meaning of specific cues. Now, new research shows that canines could also have a more complex form of memory that few nonhuman animals have been shown to possess—one that could even point to a sense of self-awareness.

There are two forms of "explicit memory," which is the kind of memory you use when intentionally recalling a piece of information. The first is semantic memory, which you use to recall information you’ve consciously learned or memorized. The second is episodic memory, which you use to remember everyday experiences and events that your mind encodes without conscious memorization. While you might use semantic memory to recount vocabulary words for a Spanish test, you’d use episodic memory when your friend asks you how your trip to the grocery store went yesterday.

Semantic memory is fairly common in the animal kingdom; chimpanzees can use it to memorize words and dogs can use it to associate commands with the actions they need to perform. But until recently, episodic memory has been considered “uniquely human.” Endel Tulving, the University of Toronto psychologist who first defined semantic and episodic memory in 1972, believed that episodic memory evolved only recently and only in humans. However, new research in the past few years has suggested that a few non-human animals such as chimpanzees, orangutans and bottlenose dolphins may also possess this form of memory.

Episodic memory has been associated with self-awareness: The theory is that, to recall these kinds of memories, you have to be able to imagine yourself in past events. “Many animals—mammals such as mice, squirrels, dogs, elephants, and chimpanzees, as well as most if not all birds—have excellent ‘semantic’ memory,” Tulving writes

on his faculty webpage. “That is, they are capable of conscious learning of facts about the world. However, there exists no evidence that they can mentally travel in time in the same was as humans do, to remember the past and to plan for the future.”

Wanna develop more/better brain power?

Read more, from reliable sources like ziggysurfcatz and Smithsonian Magazine.

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