[B4Ranch]

Gene Schroeder of Fresno and other protesters seek signatures earlier this month on a petition to maintain motorized-vehicle access to Oceano Dunes.

Tire tracks on a beach at Oceano Dunes State Vehicular Recreation Area stop at a row of signs meant to protect bird nesting areas. The state Coastal Commission favors further limits on vehicles.

A plover chick at the recreation area near Pismo Beach is banded so that its movements can be tracked.

Buggies zip along the crest of a dune this month at the Oceano Dunes recreation area. "I think it's an unbalanced situation. We need our space, too," says one Tulare resident.

[farmfriend]

Ah, thank you kind sir. Someday I will bother to learn the codes to do that.

[farmfriend]

Look, I did it.

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