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	'Surfin' USA'

mickfinn

2-9-2008 1:25 PM

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Surfers win fight to save Beach Boy waterfront

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a301fe1c-decf-43d9-b088-4e90a10701ef/CF7CAECB-A41C-455E-BA44-7F1D4F4B65EE/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2008/02/09/wsurf109.xml" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2008/02/09/wsurf109.xml" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2008/02/09/wsurf109.xml"> Surfers have claimed a victory in their battle to protect a world famous California surf break threatened by a proposed toll road extension</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2008/02/09/wsurf109.xml">Environmentalists said plans to build a highway close to Trestles Beach, immortalised in the Beach Boys' 1963 song Surfin' USA, would destroy the legendary break by blocking sediment that creates its world-class waves</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2008/02/09/wsurf109.xml">Debate about the £450 million project south of Los Angeles has raged for years</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2008/02/09/wsurf109.xml">but critics said that as well as damaging the beach, the road would also wipe out about a dozen endangered coastal species and ruin an ancient Indian burial ground</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2008/02/09/wsurf109.xml">On Wednesday the California Coastal Commission rejected the proposals after a marathon 12-hour hearing which was attended by an estimated 3,000 local residents, surfers, environmentalists, commuters, union activists and tribal members</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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