To email Senator Feinstein click here.

To email Senator Boxer click here.

To email Speaker of the House Pelosi

To email Congresswoman Woolsey click here.

If you would like to send letters by regular mail, here are the addresses you'll need:

The Honorable Dianne Feinstein
United States Senate
331 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224-3841
or
One Post Street, Suite 245
San Francisco, CA 94104 Phone: 415-393-0707 Fax: 415-393-0710

The Honorable Barbara Boxer
United States Senate
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
Phone: 202-224 3553
or
1700 Montgomery Street
Ste 240 San Francisco, CA 9411
1 Phone: 415-403-0100 Fax: 415-956-6701

The Honorable Nancy Pelosi
U.S. House of Representatives
2457 Rayburn HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515
Phone: 202-225-4965 Fax: 202-225-8259 450
or
Golden Gate Ave.
14th Floor San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: 415-556-4862 Fax: 415-861-1670

The Honorable Lynn Woolsey
2263 Rayburn Building
Washington, DC 20515
Ph.: 202-225-5161
Fax: 202-225-5163
or
1050 Northgate Drive, Suite 354
San Rafael, CA. 94903
Ph.: 415-507-9554 Fax: 415-507-9601

Writing Points:

• We need your help protecting mariculture and the Drakes Bay Oyster Farm in Point Reyes National Seashore.

• I want shellfish farming, processing and retail to remain indefinitely in Drakes Estero and I want this clearly identified in the new PRNS General Management Plan. Please help us make this happen.

• Evidence that the Seashore adminstration has lied about the science, saying the oyster farm damages the estero and harms harbor seals when their own reports show the opposite, has destroyed our trust in their ability to manage this area without your congressional intervention.

• The Seashore administration has chosen the year 2012 to take this prime, and irreplaceable aquaculture facility permanently out of production. I am disturbed that this, California Department of Fish and Game's largest shellfish lease and highest quality shellfish-producing waters, could become a casualty of ill-formed Park policy.

• The Drakes Bay Oyster Farm epitomizes the sustainable farming we need in these times of growing food insecurity and global environmental crisis. The oyster farm uses no feeds, fertilizers, hormones, antibiotics, tillage or pesticides, and produces 10 times more protein per acre than a typical land-based livestock farm. The oysters filter Drake's Estero's waters, helping maintain its unparalleled quality and sustain its biodiversity.

• The oyster farm has been active for nearly 100 years, is home to the last operating oyster cannery in California, represents 85% of Marin County's shellfish growing area, and has the County's only shellfish hatchery. As the Seashore's sole oyster farm, it is not only a key visitor destination point, but a valuable educational and research farm for San Francisco Bay area schools and universities.

• There is nothing in any past legislation that prevents the National Park Service from giving the Oyster Farm an extended lease. No protected area of the Park System are placed in jeopardy by doing so.