If you’ve been wondering what’s up with the beautiful, vulnerable Tule elk of Point Reyes, here’s a Feb. 2024 update: THE QUESTIONS: • How are the park’s Tule elk doing right now? Do they have enough water to survive? • Why haven’t the elk been freed yet? Hasn’t the National Park Service already taken …
Orwell’s forest The lush, dense, wild forest at Tomales Bay State Park. Word choice matters. Getting others to use words of your choosing is a powerful method of influencing not only their speech — but their thinking. George Orwell wrote: “If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.” With this in mind, what would …
Invasion Biology — an ideology infecting modern, science-minded humans like a cancer. It’s an ideology far more destructive of Earth’s precious animals, plant life, and ecosystems than the so-called ‘invasive species’ it targets, because it’s directly responsible for killing literally millions of plants and animals — as well as poisoning ecosystems. Compliments of us …
FOCUS ON THE BEAUTY FOR A CHANGE, WILL YA, JACK? Where the wild things are. Pierce Point Ranch, Tule Elk Reserve, Point Reyes National Seashore – Jack Gescheidt, JackPhoto.com I’m painfully aware that I mostly write about problems (as I see them); like wild forests being threatened with logging — rebranded as “thinning” or “management” …
Why elk & cows @ Point Reyes Nat’l Seashore, locally, matter globally If you can keep up with two fast-talking, passionate, environmental and animal rights advocates — both originally from New York — both pontificating full-bore about animal and climate issues, you’ll love this… Sept. 22, 2023 – Staci-Lee Sherwood of “Reality Checks” interviews Jack …
Over 20,000 citizens submitted a Public Comment to the Park Service – to free the Tule elk at Pt. Reyes Nat’l Seashore! – 9/28/23 Historic process underway here, folks! For the first time in 45 years — since the magnificent Tule elk were re-introduced to their historic stamping grounds at Point Reyes Seashore in Marin …
Question: How do logging companies justify increasing logging operations in our climate crisis (which is created by logging)? Answer: Yell, “WILDFIRE DANGER!” and break out the chainsaws. Right now, when we need more trees more than ever, the timber industry is expanding its logging operations — by exploiting the public’s very real (and understandable) fear of wildfire. Lobbying …
Yet another article detailing how the cattle industry is destroying soil and wildlife habitat in the American West — and accelerating the climate crisis by heating the planet. READ FULL ARTICLE. Some EXCERPTS: • Cattle are well known emitters of methane, through belching and manure. But in the arid and fragile West, they’re …
CLICK THE PLAYHEAD, BELOW: SONG: “Point Reyes Seashore Has Some Cows” About 4,500 privately-owned beef and dairy cows run roughshod over the public land of Point Reyes National Seashore, a national park unit in west Marin County, CA, about 20 miles north of San Francisco. The average person, including visitors to this popular seashore, …
CLICK THE PLAYHEAD, BELOW: SONG: “Just A Spoonful of Poison Drives The Population Down” Think Mary Poppins on crystal meth, with an AR-15. A spit-spot bloodbath! JULY 2023: A happy song about the profit-driven, multi-million dollar project to aerially bombard (with helicopters) the Farallon Islands National Marine Sanctuary, in the Pacific Ocean 28 miles …
Both pro-private-cattle ranchers and pro-wild-elk activists were surprised by the National Park Service’s news release about its proposal to dismantle the controversial 3-mile-long, 8-foot-tall Tule Elk Reserve fence at Point Reyes National Seashore. The Park Service’s proposal signals a reversal of 45 years of Park Service policy of fencing in the park’s largest herd …
It didn’t take long for the National Park Service’s (NPS) quiet, low-key email “News Release” to its subscribers at 11am PT on Friday, June 9, 2023, to cause a commotion. Because the one-page document contained this long sentence (bolding added): Based on the review of public comments and internal scoping, NPS has identified a …
If you read just one article this month about the climate crisis, read this one (CLICK HERE). 2 big takeaways: What you eat matters – and eating less meat is key. (For most people, eating meat, especially beef, is a lifetime habit, but it’s heating the planet as fast as our burning fossil fuels — …
The great environmental writer, advocate and author George Wuerthner has taught me much over the years, including on the topics of about the devastating effects of the cattle industry on American land. And just how much public land is given over to the industry. And how badly cattle degrade land. And how much precious water …