KRON 4/Molly Martinez, 3/4/15. "Golden Retriever Gate: Dog owners protest Park leash laws."
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.... The new plan was created to bring the recreation area into compliance with federal law, and to deal with the acquisition of new lands in San Mateo County, increased Bay Area demand for access to open spaces and shifts in park visitation and uses. .... As for dog walking in Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Picavet said that issue is being addressed through the Dog Management Plan, which has undergone two drafts and remains on the drafting table, where it has been for many years.
.... Jan Scott, a San Francisco resident of fifty years, who lives in the Sunset District, also protested further restrictions on off-leash dog walking. ... She said perhaps the NPS wants to manage urban areas similarly to how they manage Yosemite and other national parks. “They don’t see the difference between an urban recreation area and those areas,” Scott said. Scott said she worries that dogs may be the first to go and that walking trails could be threatened next." Read article.
Related - Dogtime, 7/14/11, "Dog exercise needs." "Generally speaking, a leashed walk around the block isn't going to cut it. Most dogs need 30 to 60 minutes of exercise a day. Your canine pal needs enough that he's slowed down by the time you stop."
Note photographs. On land Wikimedia commons file; in ocean Wikipedia/Golden Retriever; dog with puppies on leash from Etsy, "Popular items for golden retriever."
Posted by Kathy Meeh
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Pacifica has literally handed over 60 percent of its open space to the GGNRA with absolutely NO compensation and with absolutely no say in the management of said property. Whoever said that Pacifica doesn't drive a hard bargain?
And of that 60 percent, how much of this so called "recreation area" has been allocated for recreation with our best friends? In-other-words, in how much of that 60 percent can one play a simple game of fetch with Fido and not be ticketed/arrested? For those of you who answered, "Zero", you would be correct.
926 Hey, thank the Burtons--Phil and John not Dick and Liz--for getting the GGNRA juggernaut rolling back in the '70s. Did a little research. Phil Burton's wheeling and dealing during the Carter-era to create "his park" is legendary. Pacifica bought most of Sweeney Ridge in 1971 with hopes for a park to commemorate the SF Bay Discovery site. However, the West Aspen Company owned 3 1/2 miles of the ridge-line with hopes for 3,000 scenic view homes. Phil Burton managed to have it all acquired by the feds for inclusion in the GGNRA.
Mori Point was sold at public auction. Don't know who all bid but the winning bid was by a coalition of three conservation groups including the Pacifica Land Trust. They promptly flipped it to the GGNRA.
Creating and expanding the GGNRA took, and still takes, planning and coordination between cities and landowners, activists and legislators. Long term, patient planning by motivated, savvy believers in land conservation. Dogs aren't part of the plan.
Read more about it...New Guardians for the Golden Gate: How America Got a Great National Park. By Amy Meyer, 2006. Available through University of California Press. Might be a copy in the library.
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Actually, it is not only dogs that are under assault by the GGNRA, but if you looked at their newly proposed General Management Plan (GMP), humans are equally under attack. The GMP establishes "natural/wilderness zones" throughout the GGNRA whereby almost all human recreational activities will be banned. For example, at Ocean Beach, that includes jogging (except at the water's edge), picnicking, sunbathing, building sandcastles, volleyball, Frisbee tossing, etc. Put another way, everything will be banned except jogging, walking and fishing at the water's edge - without Fido, of course. It will be permissible, however, to walk through the sand dunes sans dog to get out to the water's edge. This is why a few years ago, through Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi, the GGNRA attempted an under the radar name change from the Golden Gate National Recreation Area to the Golden Gate National Parks. With that name change would have come a corresponding management change, similar to what we are seeing today with the GMP, which would pretty much put the kibosh on all forms of human recreation. "Recreation", out of name, out of sight, out of purpose.
See for yourself: http://www.sfdog.org/content/sfdog-official-comment-ggnra-general-management-plan-deis
First the dogs, then the people. I kid you not. And it won't be just on GGNRA land. Anywhere a specie is threatened or even just failing to grow in population and it'll be no pets and no people. Gradually, but the day is coming.
Word have power. Sometimes what is not said is far more important then what is said. Always listen to the exact words used, don't add what you think they meant.
Agreed Tom, but if the Anonimotipia of this site did that the site would cease to exist, at least it's Rantanon commenting horde would fizzle and dry up. Let's keep Fixpacifica ignorant and belligerent... no point in getting facts in the way of their "thoughts".
Crushed.
10:58
Shouldn't you be whining about Harmony @ 1?
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