Today Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar is paying a visit to Drakes Bay Oyster Company and meeting with what his office called “community stakeholders”—representatives of an environmental movement that in recent weeks has been pounding the virtual pavement with petitions and mass emails calling for the closure of the farm in the name of wilderness
protection.
In the countdown to the expiration of the oyster company’s operating permit—and the imminent decision by Secretary Salazar…