Letters: An oyster farm fights to keep its lease

Re “Oyster fight has many interested parties,” Feb. 24

So let me get this straight. The Lunny family buys an oyster farm in 2005 in Drakes Estero at the Point Reyes National Seashore, knowing that it is slated to close in 2012 based on a 40-year-old agreement between the then-owners and the National Park

Service, which provides that at its end, the area will convert to marine wilderness. Now Kevin Lunny is suing the federal government so he can renege on the agreement while,

at the same time, paying below-market rent on the lease and low rates for grazing on 1,100 acres of federal land on which the family conducts a profitable cattle business.

Has the Lunny family ever heard the expression “biting the hand that feeds you?”

Gordon J. Louttit
Manhattan Beach

It seems clear that Lunny’s lease has expired, which should be the end of the story. A deal is a deal. Whatever happened to honoring your contracts?

This type of action seems rampant in our society, whether it is dodging your mortgage obligation via a short sale or something like this case.

Heath Finn
Calabasas

Among the missed points: There is no scientific proof that the oyster farm does any damage to Drakes Bay. In fact, the opposite may be true due to the filtration that occurs naturally by oyster farming.

The economic impact hits not only Lunny but his employees, who will be out of jobs. And I’ll miss those wonderful oysters.

Al Laughlin
Bethel Island, Calif.

It is fascinating that this man is supported in this by supposedly “small government” conservatives.

Politics does indeed produce strange bedfellows.

Aillil Halsema
Los Angeles

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