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 by the public, where we rent land at massively discounted prices (paid for by taxpayers)! Lock those destructive Tule elk back up! So we can keep making money from our polluting cattle industry operations!
The week of Dec. 2nd thru 6th, 2024 was action-packed for the Tule Elk Reserve @ Point Reyes National Seashore — and, more importantly, for the magnificent Tule elk of this national seashore who are still not yet fully free.
Instead of reading about all this, you can HEAR it all in a podcast, on this website’s PODCASTS PAGE, CLICK HERE. Episode #5, Tuesday, Dec. 10th, 2024 “Sky-Jack Podcast.” (“Sky-Jack” is every Tuesday, with co-hosts filmmaker Skyler Thomas (“The Shame of Point Reyes” documentary film creator), and environmental activist Jack Gescheidt, founder of this-here TreeSpirit Project).
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One thing we can’t share on our Podcast is this brand-new photograph, “Elk Activists Replace Elk Fence” which was made at the Elk Reserve exactly where some of the deadly 8-foot-tall elk-killing fence posts and woven-wire has been removed.
Ranchers even have the audacity to cry bloody murder about a few wild elk roaming freely in a national park — and got a powerful ranching industry lobbying group, the California Cattlemen’s Association, to file a lawsuit to pressure the Park Service to re-fence the elk. So ranchers can continue their poopy operations as usual, despite being paid millions of dollars, decades ago, to leave the park. They reneged on that deal, kept their multi-million dollar pay-outs, and dug their heels into Point Reyes, despite having no business in this (or any) national park unit. READ ALL ABOUT THE RANCHING DEBACLE.
For every elk and national park-loving citizen activist in the PHOTO BELOW, there are at least 10 more have been working on this issue for literally years. And won a major victory — 46 years after this National Seashore re-introduced native Tule elk here, a great achievement, but fenced in, for the beef and dairy ranchers whose businesses, to this day, actively pollute this public park. Ranches are also heavily subsidized by taxpayers. But ranchers obfuscate or even lie about this fact, so the public remains in the dark and misled to feel sorry for these land-and-water-polluting con artists.
“Elk Activists Replace Elk Fence” PHOTO ABOVE. CLICK ON IT TO ENLARGE.
Tune in to our Tuesday, Dec. 10th Sky-Jack Podcast, to learn all about it: Point Reyes elk-cow-ranching issues. 9am PT.