NEWPORT BEACH
The city and the Orange County Coastal Commission debuted a brochure, called Between a Rock and a Hard Place, at a recent Coastal Commission meeting. The brochure is meant primarily for teachers and students and will be sent to every school in the county.
“People are walking on tide pools and turning over rocks,” said Patti Schooley, the county’s parks district manager. “All that is decimating tide pools, and there is not going to be much left 10 years from now.”
The city has been trying to find a solution to the rapidly disappearing tide pools for about a year, since local researchers found that visitors trampling the pools were contributing to a significant drop in the area’s quantity and diversity of sea life. Last November, environmentalists began pushing the city to restrict public access to tide pools at Little Corona State Beach.
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