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by Lauren Bernadett  Drakes Bay Oyster Company (DBOC) is an oyster farm located in Drakes Estero in Point Reyes National Seashore on the northern California coast.  Oysters have been farmed in Drakes Estero since the 1930s.  In 1964, Congress passed the Wilderness Act, which permitted the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to designate wilderness areas within national parks.  The Wilderness Act prohibited commercial enterprise in...

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by Lauren Bernadett In an extension of a battle over freshwater that has been building for decades, Florida filed a lawsuit against Georgia in the U.S. Supreme Court over Georgia’s use of water from interstate rivers.  The rivers at issue connect in southern Georgia and pass through Florida’s panhandle before meeting the Gulf of Mexico at Florida’s Apalachicola Bay.  Because the freshwater from these rivers regulates the growing...

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