Three Questions
Huffman Hasn't Answered
Your salmon. Your National Park. Your public health. This letter asks the questions every CA-2 voter deserves to have answered before June 2, 2026.
What is this page?
Greg Burgess is running for Congress in California's 2nd District. He sent a formal letter to the current Congressman, Jared Huffman, asking three important public questions. This page explains those questions in plain language — and tells you exactly why they matter to your family, your land, and your community.
What happened to the Klamath fish screens?
In 2016, leaders signed a deal to help save salmon on the Klamath River. Part of that deal promised to build metal screens at farm water canals. Without those screens, salmon swim into the canals and die — they can never find their way back to the river. Nine years later, not one screen has been built. Salmon returning after the biggest dam removal in U.S. history are still getting trapped and dying. Greg is asking: what did you actually do to get this built?
"We've had nine years to be able to prepare for this, and here we are."
— Scott White, General Manager, Klamath Drainage District (KGW News, Nov. 2025)The Klamath River dam removal was the largest in U.S. history — a big win for salmon. But a win is only complete if the fish can actually survive. They can't, because the promised screens were never built. The Klamath Tribes have formally asked Congress to act. A $4.5 million screen project exists — but has no funding.
What happened to your National Park?
Back in the 1960s and 70s, U.S. taxpayers paid about $57 million — worth more than $500 million today — to buy Point Reyes for all Americans. You already own it. In January 2025, a private group called The Nature Conservancy quietly paid about $30 million to get ranchers to leave. Then they got the right to manage roughly 16,000 acres of your park for up to 45 years. The whole deal was done in secret. Per the Press Democrat newspaper, Congressman Huffman himself signed a non-disclosure agreement — meaning he couldn't tell you, his own voters, what was being decided about your park.
Who gave permission to use private money for public land? The U.S. Constitution says Congress controls the money for federal land. No Congressional vote approved TNC's role. No one has publicly explained what law allows this.
Was the environmental review outdated? The environmental study was finished in 2020. The situation changed significantly by 2025. No new review was done.
What's the legal basis for a 45-year private arrangement? No open bidding. No public competition. A private group now manages your park for nearly half a century. What law allows that — and what stops the same process from being used for oil or gas leases someday?
Why were voters kept in the dark? The Press Democrat reported Congressman Huffman signed an NDA — meaning your own representative couldn't tell you what was decided about your land. Greg had to file a federal public records request (FOIA) just to find out — and even that wasn't answered on time.
Is bird flu being tracked at Point Reyes?
THE CDC CURRENTLY DESCRIBES THE H5N1 RISK TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC AS LOW.
There is no current outbreak at Point Reyes. This question is about preparedness and monitoring — making sure the right systems are in place before a problem starts.
Bird flu (H5N1) is a serious illness that spread from wild birds into dairy cows for the first time in 2024. Point Reyes sits right in the middle of the Pacific Flyway — a major path that millions of migratory birds travel every year. Those birds can carry bird flu. 2.5 million people visit Point Reyes every year. The old dairy farmers were legally required to test their cows for bird flu. The new conservation cattle are not under the same rules. No one has publicly explained what monitoring plan is in place.
The CDC states the current risk to the general public is LOW — and Greg is not suggesting otherwise. This is about preparedness: having a clear, public monitoring plan in place before a problem could start. California's Department of Food and Agriculture has confirmed bird flu in Marin County. The park sits on a flyway used by hundreds of thousands of birds every year. It is a fair and responsible question: what is the monitoring plan?
Read the Full Letter
Complete public documents sent to Congressman Huffman, April 2, 2026. Any response received will be published here in full.
Why Greg is asking these questions
Greg grew up in Mill Valley and San Rafael. His family has been connected to the lands and waters of this district for three generations. Point Reyes National Seashore was part of his childhood.
As a former CDC public health officer, Greg knows what it means to ask hard questions in the public interest. His campaign motto is "Show Your Work" — because voters deserve to know not just what their representatives say, but what they actually did.
These are not attacks. They are honest questions about real commitments, real land that belongs to all of us, and real public health responsibilities. Every voter in CA-2 deserves answers before June 2, 2026.
These questions belong to all of us.
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