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Fort Bragg   062309   Smash The MLPA! Comments by local area fishers, seaweed harvesters, and businesses after the Ecotrust-DFG MLPA presentation/public meeting on June 23, 2009. Ken Wiseman (MLPA I-Team) and Susan Ashcraft (DFG) spent most of the time in front of the crowd and Ecotrust gave a brief Powerpoint Presentation. August 28, 2009 The  RDARS August 2009 Report,  (58kb PDF) a primer on the BRTF, MLPA-I, The Back Door To Oil, the Commission, the Arnold Davis Cup Tournament, GOO! July 21, 2009 The official MLPA-I Circus Act put on in Fort Bragg was well attended, the California Fisheries Coalition and the Seaweed Rebellion officially tabled the event. July 17, 2009 By the first week in July, the California Game Wardens Association had asked for a delay in the Corrupt MLPA Process. July 9, 2009 Ms. Cindy Gustafson, President California Fish and Game Commission "We understand the need for the Commission to move forward with mandates but must request that you delay or suspend any and all mandates that place additional responsibilities on wardens until such time that furlough and staffing issues are addressed. A prime example of this is the ongoing work by the Commission related to the Marine Life Protection Act and the designation of protected areas along our coastline. Insofar as legally possible, please delay any further designations of such areas. With the furloughs in place, we now have field level staffing that provides us about 175 field level wardens. We simply cannot effectively enforce additional mandates without some relief from furlough issues that may continue through June, 2010." Todd Tognazzini, President California Game Wardens Association P.O. Box 2785 Paso Robles, CA 93447-2785 (805)610-3916, ttognazzini@dfg.ca.gov Contact These Politicians Senator Barbara Boxer Sacramento Office 501 I Street, Suite 7-600 Sacramento, CA 95814 (916) 448-2787 (202) 228-3865 fax http://boxer.senate.gov/faq.cfm San Francisco Office 1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240 San Francisco, CA 94111 (415) 403-0100 (202) 224-0454 fax Senator Dianne Feinstein One Post Street, Suite 2450 San Francisco, CA 94104 415-393-0707 http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/ Representative Mike Thompson 430 North Franklin Street PO Box 2208 Fort Bragg, CA 95437 Phone: (707) 962-0933 Fax: (707) 962-0934 Thompson's Aide: Heidi Dickerson heidi.dickerson@mail.house.gov http://mikethompson.house.gov/ Senator Patricia Wiggins 200 South School Street P. O. Box 785 Ukiah, CA 95482 Phone: (707) 468-8914 Fax: (707) 468-8931 Wiggins' Aide: Fred Euphrat http://dist02.casen.govoffice.com State Assemblymember Wes Chesbro State Capitol P. O. Box 942849 Sacramento, CA 94249-0001 916-319-2001 FAX: 916-319-2101 http://democrats.assembly.ca.gov/members/a01/ Mendocino County Supervisors: 501 Low Gap Road, Room 1090 Ukiah, CA 95482 (707) 463-4221 Tel (707) 463-4245 Fax http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/ http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/bos/cgi-bin/meetings.pl Carre Brown, 1st Distrist County Supe. John McCowen, 2nd Distrist County Supe. John Pinches, 3rd Distrist County Supe. Kendall Smith, 4th Distrist County Supe. smithk@co.mendocino.ca.us David Colfax, 5th Distrist County Supe. Fort Bragg City Council: 416 N. Franklin Street Fort Bragg, CA 95437 961-2823 citycouncil@fortbragg.com General Council Member # 961-2823 http://ci.fort-bragg.ca.us/ http://ci.fort-bragg.ca.us/main/Wave%20Energy.html Fort Bragg Mayor Doug Hammerstrom Vice Mayor Dave Turner dturner@fortbragg.com Council member Meg Courtney Council member Dan Gjerde dgjerde@fortbragg.com Council member Jere Melo jmelo@fortbragg.com MPA's don't protect marine resources from pollution, or oil exploration/drilling, seabed development, aquaculture, industrialization of coastal waters, or militarization, just food gathering. Astral-Arts Mendocino registered as a Mendocino County business in the Spring of 2003. All artwork, media, audio, video, projet series names and individual titles are Copyright Protected ©2004 ©2005 ©2006 ©2007 ©2008 Author: Thomas DiFiore. All business logos and product line artwork, are marks with specific fonts used in the identification of goods/services as used in commerce, and are trademarks of the author or Astral Arts Mendocino.