The essay below, by Rick Halsey, Director of the California Chaparral Institute of San Diego County, CA is an excerpt of a letter to the California Coastal Commission, reprinted with permission from the author. Bolding added by TreeSpirit Project. GUEST ESSAY by: Rick Halsey, Director The California Chaparral Institute The author, Rick Halsey, above (right), …
The elk finally had their day in the Ninth Circuit Federal Appellate Court in San Francisco, before a 3-judge panel, around 10:30am this past Monday, April 1st (yes, April Fool’s Day, but this ain’t no foolin’ around). Our superstar-before-the-bar, attorney, Rebecca Garverman of the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic, which brought this suit for …
Making A Killing Killing I’m an environmental advocate, animal rights activist, and a consultant for In Defense of Animals. More importantly, I’m a nature lover — and a horrified citizen. Horrified, because of what I’ve learned about the massive poison drop planned for the Farallon Islands National Marine Sanctuary. And the underlying reasons for it …
I was offended by the comparison. Until I listened to the argument for it. For years I winced whenever an animal rights activist used the word “holocaust” to describe the slaughter of animals for human consumption. Even though I knew the scale of the animal-killing we humans do — many millions of (in particular) …
If you’ve been wondering what’s up with the beautiful, vulnerable Tule elk of Point Reyes, here’s a Feb. 2024 update: THE QUESTIONS: • How are the park’s Tule elk doing right now? Do they have enough water to survive? • Why haven’t the elk been freed yet? Hasn’t the National Park Service already taken …
Orwell’s forest The lush, dense, wild forest at Tomales Bay State Park. Word choice matters. Getting others to use words of your choosing is a powerful method of influencing not only their speech — but their thinking. George Orwell wrote: “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” With this in mind, what would …
Invasion Biology — an ideology infecting modern, science-minded humans like a cancer. It’s an ideology far more destructive of Earth’s precious animals, plant life, and ecosystems than the so-called ‘invasive species’ it targets, because it’s directly responsible for killing literally millions of plants and animals — as well as poisoning ecosystems. Compliments of us …
FOCUS ON THE BEAUTY FOR A CHANGE, WILL YA, JACK? Where the wild things are. Pierce Point Ranch, Tule Elk Reserve, Point Reyes National Seashore – Jack Gescheidt, JackPhoto.com I’m painfully aware that I mostly write about problems (as I see them); like wild forests being threatened with logging — rebranded as “thinning” or “management” …