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 …
The Enemies Project: A “Proud Boy” and a Leftist walk into a TV studio… This is quite a departure from my usual posts about my usual interrelated environmental and animals topics of forests, deforestation, the cow-slaughtering industries (so-called dairy & beef), the heating climate and what should be the rights of subjugated (aka, “domesticated’) animals …
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 …