Big Trouble in Little Point Reyes – a Congressman comes to Point Reyes Station, CA, and some hell breaks loose Who-da thunk that the innocuous, last-minute invitation to Congressman Jared Huffman’s hastily organized, Saturday, January 11th, 2025 “Town Hall” in the rural west Marin County, CA town of Point Reyes Station, would kick up …
An activist win: freer elk @ Point Reyes Park Service cuts down 1/4-mile of Elk Fence and… Then ranchers sue the Park Service for freeing wild animals in a national park… Of course. This the dairy and “beef” (cows-for-food) industry’s position: How DARE there be more wild animals roaming around a national park unit, …
GIVE A HOOT — DON’T SHOOT 1/2-MILLION OWLS The most disturbing fact here is not that the USFWS (U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service) wants to implement a program to kill over 450,000 wild owls in California, Oregon and Washington state, those magnificent, mesmerizing, magical, mystical and birds the vast majority of apex predators (humans) …
Time to turn off the TV news and re-read 1984. Or Brave New World (order). I don’t know about you, but I’m still in shock and grief is still only on the horizon in the distance of January 2025. Fear will come, too, but no rush – – there are over a thousand days …
LITIGATION, LAWYERS & LIES We activists, wild animal protectors, and national park advocates were all primed to watch the latest court proceedings, on Friday, October 18th (2024), for one of the two ongoing lawsuits involving Point Reyes National Seashore. Either lawsuit, in different ways, could result in finally freeing the magnificent Tule elk from …
When is that %#@! Pt. Reyes elk fence coming down?? For those of you who’ve been wondering, here’s the latest news re. the fenced-in herd of Tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore. On Sept. 12, 2024, the CCC approved the NPS’ TPAP for the Tule Elk Reserve at PRNS north of SF, CA, …
To eat animals, or not to eat animals, that is a question. If you’re like most people, which is to say you’re not in the Animal Rights movement, you’ll have no idea what the title of this essay is about: WTF is “welfarism” vs. “abolitionism” ? You know what these 2 “isms” mean in …
Ban “factory farms” in Sonoma County, CA? In the animal activist and animal rights communities, there is discussion and debate about use of the term — and even the definition of the term — “factory farm.” Let’s address the contentious issue of whether or not to “ban factory farms” this way: below is copied, …