Talk:Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Many unsourced claims
And then out of the blue:

1. Final Memo - Dated: March 19, 1993. From: Francesca Cava. To: Ed Ueber and Terry Jackson. Title: Delegation of Responsibility for Northern Portion of the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS).

The obvious question is what information was supposed to be soured to that memo! Please use after adding any information so that we can verify it. Thanks. W Nowicki (talk) 01:08, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

Ah, the section that I guess was supposed to refer to it was added back in, again without citations and full of opinion, so will move here. W Nowicki (talk) 20:32, 17 December 2010 (UTC)


 * While the MBNMS currently stretches between Cambria in the south, to Marin County in the north, the section from the Santa Cruz-San Mateo county line north is managed by the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (GFNMS). The history behind this is a matter of politics, not jurisdictional necessity.


 * In early-1993, soon after the MBNMS was declared a National Marine Sanctuary, the long-time Superintendent of the GFNMS, Mr. Edward Ueber, contacted Terry Jackson (the first MBNMS Superintendent) and suggested that the GFNMS could help out the fledgling MBNMS by overseeing the northern third of the MBNMS for a one year period. This would enable Jackson to concentrate more fully on the hiring of staff and setting up a permanent office. Jackson thanked Ueber, and agreed to ask the NOAA Sanctuaries Chief (Cpt Francesca Cava - a NOAA Corps officer) to sign a memo that would pass authority over to Ueber for one year. The two men exchanged faxed drafts of the memo until they were both satisfied with the language. Ueber then said he would work with Cava to get the memo signed. However, when a final signed copy of the memo[1] was faxed back to Jackson, the sunset clause of a "one year" duration had been removed. Thinking the edit was a typo, Jackson did not pursue the matter further, so he could concentrate on more pressing issues.


 * Less than a year later, conflicts started to arise between the management styles of Ueber and Jackson over the northern third of the MBNMS. When Jackson told Ueber that he would not be re-newing the memo for another year, Ueber said that the "no sunset clause" authority had been set up by him in the memo intentionally, and that if he or anyone tried to remove the authority from his office, he would bring in the weight of influential San Francisco based politicians, including Nancy Pelosi, Barbara Boxer, and Dianne Feinstein.


 * The NOAA Sanctuaries Headquarters refused to intervene in the issue, or rescind the memo based on these political threats. A new National Sanctuaries Program Chief (Stephanie Thornton) in 1997 made the issue even worse, by proposing a massively complicated authority sharing scheme between the two sanctuary offices. The scheme was never instituted because of its unwieldy, costly, and complicated nature.


 * Utilizing the time delays to resolve the issue, the GFNMS started setting up programs and practices in the northern MBNMS section that owed their origins and funding to the GFNMS program office. Over time, the public concept of the northern section of the MBNMS being managed by the GFNMS program became assumed in everyone's mind. Another round of negotiations was initiated in 2001 between the two Sanctuary offices and their headquarters, instituted by a new National Sanctuaries Program Chief (Mr. Daniel Basta). Again, this process could not achieve resolution of the issue, and so the National Sanctuaries program finally bowed to historical precedence and assigned ongoing authority over the region to the GFNMS.

Another one

 * While there, she was involved in an argument with Stephanie Thornton over the ATOC issue, and was fired from her position several days later while she was en-route to Monterey. The Superintendent selecting committee was required to meet again, and selected William Douros, the Santa Barbara County regulatory manager of the oil and gas industries there. The offshore area of the Santa Barbara coast is an important area along the California coast for oil drilling. That area is particularly known for the large offshore 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill.

Statements about living people need to have cited sources. W Nowicki (talk) 01:08, 5 December 2010 (UTC)

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