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, …
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 …
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. The forest destruction project @ Tomales Bay State Park: GUEST ESSAY by: Rick Halsey, Director The …