Yet another article detailing how the cattle industry is destroying soil and wildlife habitat in the American West — and accelerating the climate crisis by heating the planet. READ FULL ARTICLE. Some EXCERPTS: • Cattle are well known emitters of methane, through belching and manure. But in the arid and fragile West, they’re …
CLICK THE PLAYHEAD, BELOW: SONG: “Point Reyes Seashore Has Some Cows” About 4,500 privately-owned beef and dairy cows run roughshod over the public land of Point Reyes National Seashore, a national park unit in west Marin County, CA, about 20 miles north of San Francisco. The average person, including visitors to this popular seashore, …
CLICK THE PLAYHEAD, BELOW: SONG: “Just A Spoonful of Poison Drives The Population Down” Think Mary Poppins on crystal meth, with an AR-15. A spit-spot bloodbath! JULY 2023: A happy song about the profit-driven, multi-million dollar project to aerially bombard (with helicopters) the Farallon Islands National Marine Sanctuary, in the Pacific Ocean 28 miles …
Both pro-private-cattle ranchers and pro-wild-elk activists were surprised by the National Park Service’s news release about its proposal to dismantle the controversial 3-mile-long, 8-foot-tall Tule Elk Reserve fence at Point Reyes National Seashore. The Park Service’s proposal signals a reversal of 45 years of Park Service policy of fencing in the park’s largest herd …
It didn’t take long for the National Park Service’s (NPS) quiet, low-key email “News Release” to its subscribers at 11am PT on Friday, June 9, 2023, to cause a commotion. Because the one-page document contained this long sentence (bolding added): Based on the review of public comments and internal scoping, NPS has identified a …
If you read just one article this month about the climate crisis, read this one (CLICK HERE). 2 big takeaways: What you eat matters – and eating less meat is key. (For most people, eating meat, especially beef, is a lifetime habit, but it’s heating the planet as fast as our burning fossil fuels — …
The great environmental writer, advocate and author George Wuerthner has taught me much over the years, including on the topics of about the devastating effects of the cattle industry on American land. And just how much public land is given over to the industry. And how badly cattle degrade land. And how much precious water …
Killing a Forest In Order to “Save” It A current (2023) proposed project to “restore” the alleged ill health of a wild forest at Tomales Bay State Park, on the Point Reyes peninsula of west Marin County, CA, uses Orwellian language to make its claims. Begining with the project’s name, the “Tomales Bay Forest Health …