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Access_Fund
Oct 10, 2011, 9:11 AM
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Bay Area Climbers Need Your Help to Save Summit Rock!
The County of Santa Clara, California has closed Summit Rock, a popular crag in the Bay Area to protect peregrine falcons nesting. Instead of implementing a seasonal climbing closure to protect the nesting site, which is the standard management practice at all levels of government nationwide, the County is enforcing a year round closure. Summit Rock is the only year-round raptor-related climbing closure in the nation!
The Access Fund is attacking this issue on two levels, and we need your help with both:
1. Use our easy-to-use advocacy tool to write County officials and protest this closure. With juse one click you can send a pre-written letter that the Access Fund has drafted, or with a little more effort you can edit the letter or write your own. http://www.accessfund.org/action
2. Make a donation to help us bring a renowned peregrine expert to Summit Rock to look at the site, discuss best practices with climbers and the County, and give a written opinion. http://www.accessfund.org/savesummitrock
Thanks for your support!
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yodadave
Oct 10, 2011, 4:48 PM
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i can't seem to find the action step?
your link seems to go to any empty page
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Access_Fund
Oct 12, 2011, 2:04 PM
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If you're using Firefox with the AdBlocker Plus add-on, the action alert won't show up. We're working on a fix, but in the meantime, try thre link with Internet Explorer.
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bluering
Apr 13, 2012, 5:39 PM
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You people really suck if you do not sign this petition. This is an overstep of power to shut down climbing while simultaneously letting local gang-bangers have full access to our rocks without our deterrence.
Now, there are no climbers there, just law-disregarding 'taggers' and 'bottle chuckers'.
It has been proven that the closure is not necessary year-round, by specialists in raptor study.
First they shut down my crag, yours may be next. Let's work together, huh?
Sign this petition to keep Summit Rock open to climbing. Please!
http://www.accessfund.org/c.tmL5KhNWLrH/b.5208267/k.8C84/Action_Center/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=tmL5KhNWLrH&b=5208267&aid=516572
It's not hard. Help me and local bros out. I'd help you.
Thank you. If you need more info on this and bird conditions, which are fine, e-mail at spratico@gmail.com.
This is sanctioned by the Access Fund, but I'm not affiliated with them. They are just trying to help us.
(This post was edited by bluering on Apr 13, 2012, 5:57 PM)
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edge
Apr 13, 2012, 5:59 PM
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E-mail sent.
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bluering
Apr 13, 2012, 6:04 PM
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Thanks, Edge. This is an important example (president) being laid down to shut off climbing year-round.
Tell yer friends. This will not stand...man!
Thanks, bra!
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shockabuku
Apr 13, 2012, 6:08 PM
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bluering wrote: Thanks, Edge. This is an important example (president) being laid down to shut off climbing year-round. Tell yer friends. This will not stand...man! Thanks, bra!
precedent
idiot
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bluering
Apr 13, 2012, 9:10 PM
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Shock, yeah, kinda lame. I actually knew I screwed that word. I just had to post up.
I just couldn't nail "precedant", or is it, "precedent".?
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shockabuku
Apr 15, 2012, 3:16 PM
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The second. And I sent the letter.
The result of your post was actually better than you might expect. I read the comment above about the Access fund site not working with Firefox and after multiple times trying to use it I finally figured out how.
Thanks.
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bluering
Apr 16, 2012, 7:52 AM
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Thanks, Shock!
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morcomm
Apr 16, 2012, 2:04 PM
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You can see in this photo of the back of Summit Rock taken in Feb. 2012 that the whole area is turning into a refuge for gang bangers and taggers:
The County is using the year-round closure of Summit Rock as a pretext not only for closing the area, but for not patrolling either.
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