Summer Brennan on Wilderness, Politics and the Oyster War

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🗓️ 10 August 2015

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summer Brennan, author of The Oyster War, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about her book and the fight between the Drakes Bay Oyster Company and the federal government over farming oysters in the Point Reyes National Seashore. Along the way they discuss the economics of oyster farming, the nature of wilderness, and the challenge of land use in national parks and seashores.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:06.4	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:11.0	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find links
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0:23.2	back to 2006.
0:25.4	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:27.9	We'd love to hear from you.
0:32.0	Today is July 22, 2015, and my guest is Summer Brennan, author of the Oyster War, the true
0:39.6	story of a small farm, big politics, and the future wilderness in America.
0:45.5	And that is our topic for today.
0:46.9	Summer, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:48.5	Thanks so much.
0:50.1	Now, your book weaves together a lot of fascinating stories about the role of government,
0:54.8	environmentalism, the idea of wilderness, community, where our food comes from, and so
0:59.4	on.
1:00.4	But at the heart of the book is a dispute.
1:04.2	Over whether an oyster company was going to be allowed to operate in the middle of the
1:07.9	point raise national seashore on the coast of California north of San Francisco.
1:14.6	So I want to start by talking about the place where that story takes place.
1:18.6	The area known as point raise and the national seashore.
1:23.0	Where is it and what is your personal experience to the place?
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