From Seashore
to Stockyard
CA-2 runs from the Pacific Ocean to the high desert. It covers fishing ports, redwood forests, dairy ranches, and tribal lands. This one big bill covers all of it — fixing the fishing industry, protecting ranchers, creating forest jobs, and helping tribes take care of the land they've known for thousands of years. And it doesn't add a single dollar to the national debt.
Counties
in the Bill
Created
the Debt
Clause
North Coast since 2014
has been closed
losses — 2023
lost in 30 years
cows eat seaweed
per lb, Humboldt
One Bill. Nine Problems.
CA-2 covers the ocean, redwood forests, farms, and ranches. All of them are in trouble at the same time. This bill fixes all of them together — because they are connected. Forest wood chips can become compost for farms. Ocean kelp can feed cattle and reduce their gas. Fishermen who can't fish can help restore the ocean while they wait. When one part of the land heals, all the other parts get better too.
For three years in a row, California fishermen couldn't catch salmon — the fishery was closed. Kelp forests that salmon need have shrunk by 95%. Purple sea urchins have taken over and eaten the kelp. Dungeness crab seasons keep getting delayed. Fort Bragg's fishing fleet is struggling. This part of the bill pays fishermen to help fix the ocean while they wait for it to recover — turning a crisis into jobs.
🐟 Fisheries Facts
California had 300 sawmills. Now it has fewer than 30. Forests have gotten so dense from years of fire suppression that they now burn bigger and hotter than ever. Every year, wildfire costs the federal government over $3 billion just to fight — not counting the homes lost. This bill creates 100,000+ jobs by turning the problem (too much wood in the forest) into the solution (compost, biochar, and clean energy for farms).
Right now, ranchers who treat their animals humanely, build healthy soil, and reduce pollution don't get paid any more than ranchers who don't. This bill changes that. It pays ranchers extra for doing things the right way — and connects them to the forest slash composting system so farm waste becomes clean energy and healthy soil instead of a problem.
In 2025, a federal settlement pushed 11 ranching families off 12 ranches at Point Reyes National Seashore — with no public vote, no Congressional approval, and nondisclosure agreements that silenced the families. The land the American public paid $600 million for in 1962 was effectively handed to a private conservation group. This bill makes sure that can never happen again — anywhere in America.
When cannabis became legal statewide, the price crashed from $3,000 per pound to $300 — a 90% drop. Small family cannabis farms in Humboldt and Mendocino counties are going out of business. The greenhouses, the irrigation systems, the climate-controlled grow rooms — they're still there. This bill helps convert that infrastructure to grow gourmet mushrooms, specialty salad greens, and microgreens. Same buildings, different crops, legal market.
The Yurok, Karuk, Hoopa, Wiyot, Tolowa Dee-ni', and other tribes of CA-2 have fished these rivers, managed these forests, and farmed this land for thousands of years. Their knowledge of how these ecosystems work is not folklore — it is science accumulated over generations. This bill gives Traditional Ecological Knowledge equal legal standing with Western science. Tribes co-manage the resources they've always known best.
"Their knowledge of this river goes back thousands of years. The Klamath dam removal was the beginning. Restoring the river — the right way, with tribal leadership — is the next step."
— Gregory Burgess, Candidate for CA-2 · On the Klamath Basin Restoration & Tribal Justice ActEvery Dollar Accounted For.
This bill adds zero dollars to the national debt. Here's how it pays for itself.
💰 Where the Money Comes From
🔒 Seven Layers of Budget Protection
⚖️ Constitutional & Legal Grades
| Test | What It Means | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| Constitutional Authority | Every program cites which part of the Constitution allows it | A |
| States Choose | No state is forced to join — every program is voluntary | A |
| Major Questions Doctrine | Congress expressly authorizes all major policy decisions | A |
| Tribal Rights | All tribal provisions require free, informed tribal consent first | A |
| No Government Overreach | No forced participation, no property seizures, no blank checks | A |
| Privacy | No warrantless inspections; minimum necessary data collection only | A |
| Deficit Neutral Design | Named revenue sources, hard caps, automatic correction built in | A |
What Success Looks Like.
The bill sets specific, measurable 10-year targets. If CA-2 meets them, the programs get renewed. If not, they get fixed or ended. No program gets to quietly fail.
"CA-2 goes from the Pacific Ocean to the high desert. It has fishing towns, redwood forests, dairy ranches, and tribal nations. Nobody in Congress has written a single bill that covers all of them — connected together, paid for, and ready to go on Day One. That's what Show Your Work means. This is that bill."
— Gregory Burgess, Candidate for CA-2 · No Party Preference · R.O.A.R. — Restore Our American RepublicThis Bill Is Already Written
Every section, every funding source, every constitutional citation. Fully drafted and publicly available. Read it before you vote — that's the whole point.