Up next on a second look, one of the bay areas most beautiful locations. The point rays National Seashore. And the battle over an oyster operation thats been there for decades. Recovering from a wildfire there in the 1990s. Controlling the population of elk and deer and surviving a shark attack on the island of tamales bay. Hello everyone im frank somerville. Welcome to second look. The drakes the got good news today. An injunction was announced, that injunction will remain in place until midmay. Under one owner then another the Oyster Company has been operating for decades. A federal lease negotiated with the previous owners expired last year. Last november as they were deciding to extend the lease, ken salazar visited the drakes bay Oyster Company. Mike mibach was there. Reporter drake, clear, cold water and thousands of oysters oysters. Theres no chemical used any where. Well show you the chucking and impacting room. Reporter today he hosted the interior of ken salazar. I decided to come here today because of the impending issue. Reporter that issue on whether or not to extend the companys lease. If he loses his farm, a lot of people are losing a lot more. Im hoping before november 30th. The secretary of interior is going to tell these people that theyre not going to lose their job. This is a wilderness area. Rowe was asking salazar to abide by the Lease Agreement with the National Park service. Main problem now is youre changing the nature of this pristine area. With noise, with structures. It has major implications and thats why im spending the amount of time understanding all the dimensions of the decision before me. Reporter decision time in brakes bay. Both will know by next week. In 18969 that same area saw a massive fire. We visited to see how the people and bay were recovering. Reporter an eerie orange glow filled if sky over emberness. From afar the fire was awesome. Up close it was fear and destructive. 45 families lost their homes and 12,000 acres of National Seashore burned. Reporter amazingly today most of the pristine park is as beautiful as ever. Gorgeous vistas and valley, wild flowers still blooming and birds along the west bay. The fire burned just about 15 of the National Seashore and that area blackened and dead bishop pines, mansanita and live oaks are found in the area. One year later theres a floor, part of one wall and a spectacular view of drakes bay. This is one of the worlds great sights, theres no doubt. Reporter he and his wife mary anne escaped the flames but could not escape the life the fire storm started in the late morning on october 3rd. Teenagers started an illegal campfire and did not put it. When we arrived at the fire lain 65mile an hour winds were pushing them through. Where they engulfed everything in it path. The fire started like an angry thunderstorms. The humidity was near zero and the firefighters could not stop it. We watched as two more homes went up in flames. This is whats left of that home today. A slab of concrete and view of tamales bay. Several people chose to move, others chose to go through the long and sometimes tedious process of obtaining Building Permits and negotiations with the company. Many people are in the process of rebuilding stores its a much different story. Here for the most part nature is rebuilding itself. Theres a number of baby bishop pines that are now starting to come into this burned out area. The more you look the more you can see. Reporter you can find them deep inside the throughout the burned area theres a carpet of green. Grasses, shrubs, flowers and tiny trees. Its a tremendous success story. It really is. And its all a natural process thats taking place. You know we did not go through and reseed any areas, everything thats come back its come back on its open. In most cases the fire rangers have only spotted a few beaver. Deer and other large animals are making their way back into the wild area. Researchers are monitor. In her story, the that 1995 fire appears to have killed at least 98 of those mountain beavers. 10 years later there were some sign that is the population had recovered by wildlife experts say it could take 20 years to reach the populations before that fire. Still to come here on a second look. The high flying effort to control the tullio population in the point rays. Tonight were taking a second look at the point rays National Seashore. One of the challenges of managing that area is protecting all the wildlife and their habitat. Sometimes that means making sure the population doesnt grow so large that it threatens to overwell pl overwhelm the food and land that support it. Life has been pretty good according to park rangers, maybe too good. Rangers in wildlife Scientists Say the herd is growing too fast. Its increased almost 40 in the last two years to 165 head. And park officials are afraid the preserve wont be able to handle any more elk without damaging the habitat and all of the plants here. So they are rounding up 30 cows using helicopters and giving them Birth Control injections. A team of rangers and scientists works on a cow for about 10 minutes. Its the first of its kind experience. The cow gets injections of vitamins and antibiotics in case the captivity and struggle hurts the animal. One, two, three. Beautiful. They are in such good health National ParkOfficials Say because the last two winters have been wet and a lot of food has been growing here. What were really tried to do is reduce the population now because we are predicting down the road we will have a dry winter and we will not get the population. Thus we would not be able to sustain the population and there would be a die off. Reporter the only natural predators to the elk are Mountain Lions. But the Mountain Lions are so outif you remembered theyve had no effect on the Mountain Lion population. They must let two men named mutters jump out and bring the cow down. Once they get the cow town and their net back they leave the work o the scientists. And theyre not done yesterday. Next year in december im going to have to borrow the rangers were rounding up some of the nonnative deer at point rays and killing them. Paul chambers brought us this report in 2008 on that controversial program. Today between eight and 10 nonnative deer were killed. The plan call for deers to threatened and paralyzed. The nay deer which is being suppressed by its population. Rangers at point rays are removing nonnative deer named fallon access. In the condor recovery program. Its inhumane, its an inhumane slaughter. Theres nothing nice. This video show it is nonnative deer. Since june 460 of the 1,000 living in the area have been slaughtered but this is just the beginning. To wipe out hundreds and hundreds of deer simply because they were not here when the park was created long ago to me is absolutely an atrocious way of looking at things. A handful have undergone a surgical procedure which costs five grand per deer. That involves removing the ovaries from the deer so they dont reproduce. A man talks about surviving a bear attack. Plus are there some artifacts. Where you can find them in the bay area. Were focused on the point rays National Seashore. That area was once covered by dairy farms but as the population grew and the dairy industry became more competitive. Those farms began to disappear. Nearly 50 years ago, efforts began to absorb some of them into the National Seashore property. In 2000, Bob Mackenzie told us the story. Reporter it was a few years ago that a farmer wanted to sell his property to the conservation project. Now that is happening. The land was all wetlands until the 1940s when it was dammed and dike for dairy farming. Park Officials Say the dikes could be removed and the area restored to wetland habitat. The creeks have both steel head trout andc ohote salmon. For our sake its a very important and critical piece of the effort. Reporter caltrans provided 4. 1 million for the acquisition. And congress added another 1 1 2 million in federal funds. Jacamini family members were out of town but the deal allows them to run the family dairy operation on the land for another few years while the park service hold publy hearings on how the land should be use hold public hearings on how the land should be used. So after years of acquisition meetings, this land now belongs to you, me and the state. Tamales point just north of point rays is a known shark breeding ground but with just six known shark attack heres in the past 36 years, Collin Tinley and his two friends featured that diving for abalone would be worth the risk it wasnt. About 20 feet down. I was heading toward the bottom when i saw the shark swimming parallel to me. He turned toward me a head on situation and then came toward me. Reporter it was a great white shark like these. Tinley tried to block the bite with his arm but the too big. I remember seeing the mouth come at me. It was at least from my abdomen to my shoulder. Reporter thats the size of the round. One big bite stretching from tinleys collar bone to his stomach including cuts on his forearm. Tinleys surgeon found evidence of the bite on tinleys shoulder. Theres some searuated after the bite and a bit of tugging the shark let go. I just swam with my right arm. Swam to his friends in an inflatable boat. Perhaps the shark didnt like the taste of his wet suit but more likely thats how they hunt. They grab a seal, they cut him up and spit him up so they dont have to fight with him and risk getting themselves injured then they come back after the seal is dead, weak or dead then they devour it. So divers are often pulled out of the water before the shark comes back. Tinley called for an air rescue helicopter. Tinley is an emergency room nurse in sacramento. He says his diving experience and emergency room experience helped him stay calm. Tinleys recovery is so smoothly he hopes to get back to work in a week. And yes he says he will dive again but not at tamales point. When we come back, exploring the mysterious stone formations at tamales bay. Who put them there and why. You cant move the tv there. Yuhhuh. We have a wireless receiver. Listen. Back in my day, there was no uverse wireless receiver that let you move the tv away from the tv outlet. We can move it to the kitchen, the patio, the closet and almost anywhere. Why would you want a tv in the closet . [ both laugh ] [ fancy voice ] brilliant idea, darling. [ female announcer ] the wireless receiver. Get uverse tv for just 19 a month for 1 year when you bundle tv and internet. Rethink possible. Im just warm weather and beaches. But im so much more. Im movie sets and studio tours. Im family, museums, and worldclass art. And thats the point. Youll see things here that you never expected. Only be warned theres so much to take in. It could leave your head spinning. Los angeles. Endlessly entertaining. Plan your getaway at discoverlosangeles. Com per happens youve been out hiking at point ray and come up on a large Standing Stone and wondered, who put this here and why did they do it. If you have wondered that you wouldnt be the first one to have done so. John fowler pondered those same questions back in 1998. Reporter scattered across the bay areas back country, mysterious rock walls and mountain stone monuments. Some may be 1,000 yearsology. The question is, who built them. They are easy to miss but not so easy to explain. From the sea across this spit of land, the wall disappears a half mile away in the brush near tamales bay. Countless hikers have strolled by and have not noticed the stones. Is it possible ancient explorers landed here and left behind this 20foot mega lift a remnant of some kind of signaling or marker. Theres a permanent rock. That thing could be easily observed. I feel very much so its prehistoric. Some of these walls seem to have very ordinary explanations. Though it looks very much like its a wall put in by some early maybe Dairy Farmers or cattle grazers. The amount of like and growth on exposed rock helps fix the age of this rock. Guess. 100, 150 years is probably a reasonable guess. Not a real mystery wall not like some of the ones that wander across randomly on the hillside. There are plenty of those such as this one. Carbon dating on this tree stump indicate these stones may have been in place before the first europeans arrived. The indians built mostly with reeds and wood and that walls would be culturally foreign to them. Some short walls possibly hunting blinds are dated more than 1,000 years old. Naturalists give tours about these walls. Speculate about these former civilizations that someone may have visited these shores from china. Basks, sheep herders and stuff. Martians, lumerians. Land grants. Walking private ranch land with swanson. Its hard not to get caught up in this mystery. If you see this thing, its collapsed a bit. But you can see its a middle shape. It may have been built 200 years ago or earlier no one knows. This circle of stone feels old. It could have been a watchtower or hunting if blind. Whos went to all this enormous work to put these things together . Naturalists say a massive construction project like this could only have been done during or after