Seashore suspected of fraud over noise data

To an increasingly disturbing set of allegations against the National Park Service, local biologist Dr. Corey Goodman has added a new charge: fraud.

In its efforts to oust Drake’s Bay Oyster Company from a potential wilderness area in Point Reyes National Seashore, Goodman claims the park service distorted and falsified evidence of noise pollution supposedly produced by the 70-year-old farm and concealed relevant data that disproved its conclusions.

After reviewing hundreds of hours of sound…