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 …
Senator (above) John Kennedy took to the Senate floor Tues., Oct. 28, 2025 and spent over 23 mins. to colorfully eviscerate $1.3 billion U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service plan to shoot to death 450,000 barred owls. Owl-killing would take place over 30 years, ongoing, across all three western states (CA, OR, WA), and be the …
If you’ve read any of TreeSpirit’s posts in the last few years, you’ve likely noticed a broken record repetition of a few themes. One is that logging — which is deforestation by many of its trendy new (fool-the-public) names like “thinning,” “managing” and “restoring” — always degrades forests. Whenever bureaucracies “apply” their “treatments” to allegedly …
Demonizing the Ancient, Wild Feminine to Justify the Controlling, Destructive Masculinity of Industrial “Man-age-ment” The title above is a mouthful, yet a more accurate title for this essay. But I feared it too abstract and woo-woo for a general audience, despite it being more broadly accurate and pointing to deeper anxieties and psychological maladies of …
Wildfire fears, facts & falsehoods — of giant sequoias. Numerous government agencies today are exploiting the public’s fear of wildfire to win millions of dollars in funding for “vegetation management” and other “wildfire resilience” actions to, in effect, suppress wildfires. Even many environmental groups similarly exploit the public’s fear of wildfire to sell their own …
NOTE: This post is the 2nd of 2 posts about The Animal Holocaust. Here is the 1st: https://treespiritproject.com/cattle-ranching/holocaust-comparison/ If the comparison between the infamous Nazi Holocaust and humanity’s treatment of the world’s animals wrankles, please first read the 1st post’s thorough explication. (And then I’m happy to read your comments or objections: https://treespiritproject.com/contact-jack The largest, longest-running holocaust …
Modern foresters insist they are “tending the forest” just like Native Americans did. First things first: the so-called ‘foresters’ of the so-called ‘forestry’ industry should more accurately be called ‘de-foresters’ in a ‘de-forestry.’ This isn’t meant to be snide as much as factual. Despite the lay public having the impression foresters are stewards of forests, …
You probably don’t know it, but there is a war going on, right now, right here, in lovely, peaceful, sylvan, wild animal-friendly, environmentally-minded California. But it’s being sold to you, the public, with so many Orwellian euphemisms, you aren’t aware of it. It is mankind’s War on Mother Nature herself. To focus on just one …
What’s worse than a 1,000-acre industrial deforestation project billed as a “forest health initiative?” Even as environmental activists and wild animal advocates are working to educate the public about an existing project consisting of hacking into and poisoning (with herbicides) 1,000 acres of Tomales Bay State Park in Marin County, CA, the agencies entrusted with …