Davidson Seamount Status

From the Press Democrat Dec 30^th 2025:

In 2008, then-President George W. Bush issued a memorandum rescinding a ban on offshore drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf — a prohibition put in place in 1990 by his father, President George H. W. Bush.

While national marine sanctuaries established before W’s 2008 rescission “are safe,” Charter believes, sanctuaries put in place since — or areas where existing sanctuaries were expanded — may be less so.

The original Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary, reaching as far north as Bodega Bay, was established in 1981. In 2015, under President Barack Obama, it was extended from Bodega Bay up to Alder Creek Beach in Mendocino County. That extension, Charter believes, is in more peril than the original sanctuary.

“The newer a sanctuary is, the higher the risk,” he said.

ED NOTE : the Davidson Seamount was added to the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in 2008.  Link to details about the area.