The Cattle Empire Strikes Back in Point Reyes Again. Again. Just when you thought it was safe to go back into Point Reyes National Seashore, finally, with thousands fewer cows compacting and desiccating the land, damaging all manner of vegetation, and polluting park streams and lagoons with manure and urine, the beef and dairy cattle …
Sky-Jack Podcast #72: 9am (PT) Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 Not really alive, but definitely not dead, the Point Reyes ranchers have risen again, walking the halls of government. And talking to breathe life back into the corpse of their dying “small, historic, multi-generational, organic-certified, polluting, climate-heating, animal-torturing” businesses. Just when you thought it was safe to …
February-March 2026 – For over 60 years, dairy and beef cows have continued to ransack — compact, de-vegetate, desiccate, trample, and pollute with manure — almost 20,000 acres of the Point Reyes National Seashore‘s over 70,000 acres, despite being designated a national park back in 1962. VIDEO: “Restoring” land damaged by cows – with …
I had the privilege of participating in a lively panel discussion with 3 fellow vegan activists — and vegan moderator — the president of the San Francisco Vegan Society — for a chock-full 90 minutes on March 3, 2026. Each of us specializes in working in a different (though overlapping) sector of the vegan and …
I rarely write purely political newsletters or blogposts, but I feel this issue is important enough to justify this diversion, so I’m wading into the murky, lurid waters of Trump and Trumpism and the Trumpstein files too. I can frame this as my being pro-environment, pro planetary health, pro climate crisis mitigation, pro animal rights, …
If you read just one article on the climate emergency and how it intersects with food production and the holy cow, read this August 2nd, 2023 blogpost by George Monbiot: https://www.monbiot.com/2023/08/02/all-hat-and-no-cattle/ Monbiot touches on several interrelated issues which TreeSpirit repeatedly focuses on, because they’re so damned important: the climate crisis (aka, global warming), deforestation, and, …
Rearranging deck chairs on the titanic cattle industry. Today’s modern cattle “range management” techniques like “adaptive” management” and “regenerative ranching” are, cattle industry boosters tell us, are informed by “range science.” And since science is truth and goodness (and it is), then any technique in the cattle or energy or coal industry with the word …
Wild animal slaughter on an unprecedented scale Bluntly put, the public is being misled (aka, lied to) about why 450,000 magnificent, wild, American-born barred owls are now being hunted and killed in the forests of California, Oregon and Washington State, ongoing, for the next 30 years. Please read that slaughter number again: an estimated 450,000 …