The following are my comments on the accusations against the the Audubon Society posted by biking advocates, on the recent Marin IJ article about the Audubon Society's lawsuit against Marin County.
A fellow citizen who is the head of an environmental organization that has set its course for decades as the defender of wildlife, especially birds, calls into question trails for biking being set closer to the nests of North Spotted Owl, a federally recognized endangered species, when they could have been easily placed further away, and a bunch of bikers have a field day calling that "special interest"?
How about the idea that the trails were set where they were because of the demands of two special interest biking groups, Access4Bikes, a 527 organization with the sole purpose of raising funds for legislators, and MCBC, a supposed 501(c) (3) organization that spends its time either inundating legislators with demanding emails, or on the receiving end of Supervisor Kinsey's discretionary largesse to the tune of $408K, which pays for plenty of email blasts far and wide and other forms of political advocacy? That is truly the definition of "special interest."
This could have been a simple fix but, apparently, both the bike lobbies and the MCOSD head can't consider the idea of following federal law and protecting an endangered species by designating trails further away from their habitats. MCOSD head Korten would rather break the law and get those bikers as close as possible to the Northern Spotted Owl because he wants to make them better open space stewards...huh?
That kind of rationale reminds me of the bureaucratic doublespeak first identified in George Orwell's novel, "1984."