While advocating for the irreplaceable value of trees and wild, unmanaged forests, and while advocating for wild lands free of the ravaging impact of domesticated cattle (i.e., dairy and beef cows grazed for profit), a common theme emerges. Cow farmers and so-called foresters, it turns out, have much in common. When the massive environmental damage …
A joyous walk in the park this Sunday, May 4th, 2025 — with tule elk. Point Reyes National Seashore park, that is. Almost two dozen young elk were in this spot (video above), just shy of 3 miles out on the Tomales Point trail, inside the now partially dismantled Tule Elk Reserve in northernmost Point Reyes. …
Forest “management” effort @ Tomales Bay State Park panned by environmentalists This article in a local Marin County newspaper, The Marin Independent Journal, is already two years old, but still relevant today. This deforestation project is still in process, and work may begin as early as autumn of this year (2025). The details of the …
Wealthy Marin County Cattle Ranchers Ask Congressional Republicans to Intervene on Point Reyes Settlement Deal A couple of powerful Marin County cattle ranchers are desperate to retain their huge, hidden, multi-million dollar taxpayer subsidies — also known as corporate welfare for their multi-million dollar dairy and beef ranch operations. They have run to House Republicans …
Grass-fed beef ain’t no better, pardner. A new study published March 17, 2025 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows grass-fed beef produces more methane than other livestock operations. Even under optimistic rangeland sequestration, grass-fed beef is not less carbon intensive than industrial beef — and 3-40x (!) more carbon intensive than most …
Repeating “regenerative ranching” lies doesn’t make them true. (Or does it?) The challenge in exposing lies is not repeating and thus amplifying them. Because a lie, repeated, can easily become perceived as the truth. (Ask U.S. Republican Senators whether or not Russia invaded Ukraine.) Public relation firms and/or advertising agencies on the coal industry …
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 such …
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, owned …