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 — but with chainsaws, masticating machines and herbicides. 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 so much as it is factual. Despite the …
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 …
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 …