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 …
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 the …
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, which …
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 general, …
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, …
HELP THE ELK: Comment to the Park Service by Wed. June 5th, 2024 Tell the National Park Service (NPS) that you support their own “preferred Alternative B” which would dismantle the 8-foot-tall, 3-mile-long fence of the Tule Elk Reserve at Tomales Point at Point Reyes National Seashore. While technically this is NOT a vote, …
Methane and deforestation from cattle ranching isn’t magically offset by “regenerative” agriculture. The beef and dairy industries have successfully shoehorned their latest P.R. scheme for continuing the climate-heating cow business — so-called “regenerative ranching” — into “Common Ground,” a documentary about organic agriculture. To quote the April, 2024 Sentient Media article below: “Unfortunately, that solution [regenerative …