TreeSpirit’s Jack Gescheidt speaks out for trees, nature, wild animals and our living planet.
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Join Jack Gescheidt & activist filmmaker Skyler Thomas as they rip into a new hot environmental or wildlife or animal rights topic 9am (PT) every Tuesday (11am Central, 12 noon ET). We’re usually digging into the Big 4 Cs: climate crisis, cows, capitalism and corruption.
COMING UP: Jan. 21st Sky-Jack PODCAST #10:
What’s The Big Deal at Pt. Reyes Nat’l Seashore? – PART 2!
JAN. 21, 2025: Join me, environmental filmmaker Skyler Thomas as dig into MORE of the big deal deal that just went down at Point Reyes National Seashore as of January 8th.
All the park’s Tule elk are freed and will remain so, forevermore.
Thousands of the private, for-profit beef and dairy cows will be moooved out over the next 15 months.
The dairy industry has come to an end at Point Reyes Seashore.
But some beef cows will remain — and ranching will continue. Including “conservation grazing” which is the cattle industry’s version of “clean coal” (along with “regenerative ranching,” that other tortured unicorn who lives over the rainbow in Clover happy-cow billboard’s fantasy land).
LINK to Jan. 14th 9am PT SHOW: COMING SOON!
Jan. 14th: Sky-Jack PODCAST #9:
Hey, What’s The Big Deal at Point Reyes Nat’l Seashore? – PART 1
JAN. 14, 2025: Join me, environmental filmmaker Skyler Thomas—and 2 Tule elk expert Special Guests, as we discuss the big deal deal that just went down at Point Reyes National Seashore on January 8th. This means the beginning of the removal of all this national park’s polluting dairy farms and most of its beef ranches too.
And for you Tule elk fans, all the park’s 3 herds will now be free to roam, mix, mingle, make out and make more elk, and healthier ones too, without thousands of defecating cows polluting the land, waterways and air.
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https://www.youtube.com/live/DH-gcZQqTrQ
Sky-Jack PODCAST #8: How To Lose Friends & Irritate People! – My Vegan Journey
JAN. 7, 2025: Join me, environmental filmmaker Skyler Thomas—and our Special Guest, vegan and animal rights advocate & activist Lia Wilbourn—as we delve into the bizarre: choosing not to eat animals (and animal products like cheese) any more, which makes us freak Americans and humans on Earth.
With our frail, protein-starved bodies and undernourished vitamin-deprived brains, we’ll summon the strength to discuss what it’s like to break from the herd, to not eat herds of cows, pens of pigs, and fields of chickens, not even the “good” free-range ones — come find out why.
If you’ve ever wondered what’s up with those vegans, or even toyed with veganism yourself because you love animals, this is the show for you!
MORE VEGAN INFO & RESOURCES here: https://www.TreeSpiritProject.com/vegan
Sky-Jack Podcast #7 – “2024 R.I.P.” – Year-end wrap-up
DEC. 31, 2024 – Skyler & Jack Skyler do their 2024 Year-end Wrap-up, covering every single newsworthy environmental issue of 2024 before we put the year out of our misery.
Well, actually, we do our Good Cop-Bad Cop, Half-Empty-Half-Full banter on New Year’s Eve morning, about a few enviro & animal issues we were immersed in last year — including a big win for the Tule Elk at Point Reyes Nat’l Park (20 miles north of San Francisco, CA).
WATCH Dec. 31st, 2024 SHOW: https://www.youtube.com/live/W3go_pkLpnQ
Sky-Jack Podcast #6 – “Tule Elk All Over” w. special guest physician-scientist Rick Lanman
DEC. 17, 2024 – Physician-scientist Rick Lanman joins Skyler & Jack talking elk, elk, elk: in California and all over. Including: do wild elk have a different impact on the land than domesticated cows-for-profit do? (Spoiler: YES, they do.) But why?
WATCH Dec. 17, 2024 SHOW: https://www.youtube.com/live/w6nqi2uITz0
Sky-Jack Podcast #5 – “Elk Fence Partially Down, Elk Taste Freedom” (at Pt. Reyes Park)
DEC. 10, 2024 – The National Park Service (NPS) announced (12.2.24) its “Final Decision” in the long, bureaucratic NEPA process to dismantle the 8-foot-tall, 2-to-3-mile-long fence that keeps the largest of 3 herds of Tule elk trapped inside the Tule Elk Reserve. Elk have died there by the hundreds, unable to reach enough food & water during seasonal droughts.
The next day (Tues. 12/3/24), the NPS began dismantling the fence.
But the day after that (Wed. 12/4/24), the California Cattleman’s Association stuck their big boot into the issue, by filing a lawsuit against the Park Service for finally freeing the wild Tule elk in this national park.
We share and explain all this & much more!
Special Guest, elk biologist Julie Phillips, joins the 2nd half of our show.
Sky-Jack Podcast #4
“Regenerative Ranching”
DEC. 3rd, 2024: Jack Gescheidt and activist filmmaker Skyler Thomas talk about the this hot trend in cattle ranching, variously called “rotational grazing” or “holistic management.” Is it a more environmentally friendly way to raise cows for meat & dairy — or is it just more cattle industry bullshit?
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• GO TO TreeSpirit’s “Regenerative Ranching” PAGE
Sky-Jack Podcast #3
U.S. Fish & Wildlife 1/2-million owls slaughter
Streamed NOV. 26, 2024: Jack Gescheidt and activist filmmaker Skyler Thomas talk about the U.S. Fish & Wildfire Service’s plan to kill 450,000 western Barred owls in California, Oregon and Washington state, for decades, in order to “save” the Threatened (ESA listed) Northern Spotted Owl (NSO).
Both owl species are competing for less habitat as humans continue to deforest the U.S., for multiple reasons including logging, “thinning” (which is logging) for supposed wildfire reduction and also so-called “biofuel” of wood pellets, is clearcutting forests to burn trees for energy, which is a dirtier industry dirtier than coal.
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• READ TreeSpirit BLOG about the USFWS 1/2-Million Owls Slaughter: http://CLICK IMAGE BELOW to play Nov. 26, 2024 Sky-Jack Podcast VIDEO:
Sky-Jack Podcast #2
Tule elk, cows & ranchers at Point Reyes Nat’l Seashore
Streamed NOV. 19, 2024: Jack Gescheidt and activist filmmaker Skyler Thomas talk about the hundreds of fenced-in Tule elk, and the thousands of abused (also fenced-in) cows, at Point Reyes National Seashore.
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Sky-Jack tackles the latest cattle rancher B.S. shenanigans which keeps delaying the freeing of the elk fenced inside the Point Reyes National Seashore’s Tule Elk Reserve — and the ousting of the park’s private, polluting cattle ranches.
Sparks fly, like flies to cowshit. Because there are millions of pounds of the latter still actively being dropped onto this public park’s land, contaminating land and water here, just 20 miles north of San Francisco.
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Sky-Jack Podcast #1
Exploiting Wildfire Fear, To Cut Down Forests
Streamed NOV. 12, 2024: Jack Gescheidt and activist filmmaker Skyler Thomas indulged in a fiery post-election, rambling rant about wildfire, California State Parks “vegetation management” project for Tomales Bay State Park, forest “thinning” and lots more, in their first-ever collaborative “Sky-Jack” podcast.
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Animal Agriculture “Friday Night Talk”
OCT. 4, 2024: TreeSpirit’s Jack Gescheidt and animal activist Samantha Faye have a rambling talk with KMUD Community Radio guest-host Pamela about eating animals, cattle farming, Oregon’s 2025 “Initiative Petition” IP-28, Sonoma County’s Measure J ballot initiative, George Monbiot — and much more!
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NOTE: There is nothing wrong with your television set, but there are some gaps in this recording. 🙂
“Saving the Tule Elk”
JUNE 2023: All About Animals Radio podcast with Staci-Lee Sherwood
Jack tells talks with host Staci-Lee Sherwood of All About Animals Radio about the current (June 2023) state of the wild Tule elk confined to small areas within Point Reyes National Seashore, north of San Francisco, CA.
LEARN MORE about why The National Park Service (NPS) is confining Point Reyes’ wild Tule elk with fences — in a national park unit where all wildlife is supposed to be free. This is ongoing violation of the NPS mission to protect wildlife and wild lands. Learn more, including how to help, HERE.
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“Through the Fog”
Nocturne podcast by Vanessa Lowe
Jack Gescheidt tells the tale of a group of activists bringing water, under cover of darkness, to Tule elk dying of thirst at Point Reyes National Seashore in Marin County, CA — and why it was necessary during California’s ongoing drought.
LEARN MORE about why The National Park Service is killing Point Reyes’ wild Tule elk, and other wildlife, in this national park unit, violating its mission to protect wildlife and wild lands. And how you can help.
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https://nocturnepodcast.org/through-the-fog
“Food Is Energy” KPCA Petaluma, CA Community Radio Show
Guest Jack Gescheidt has a wide-ranging talk on the Petaluma, CA-based “Food Is Energy” program hosted by Ray Cooper, also creator of World Peace (vegan) Chocolate.
The featured topic is the controversy at Point Reyes National Seashore where shooting wild elk is proposed to protect the commercial interests of ranches and dairies — and the many related environmental, ethical, and national issues at the intersection of the conflict in this only SF Bay Area National Park. (You can read more about this issue on this website.) 60 min. DECEMBER 2, 2019
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Jack Gescheidt on “Food Is Energy” KPCA radio show. Host: Ray Cooper
A lively talk on the “Food Is Energy” show with Ray Cooper, on the intersecting environmental topics of food, global warming, deforestation, land & water use, pollution, and how the average person can most effectively make a difference for the better. 60 min. JULY 1, 2019
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INTERVIEW with Jack Gescheidt, on “Food Is Energy” KPCA radio show with Ray Cooper.
A lively talk about the critical role of trees in our lives, both personally and globally; the most pressing crisis of our times; how trees are directly involved, and what YOU can do to make a big difference. 60 min. FEBRUARY 4, 2019
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KPCA INTERVIEW with Jack Gescheidt, on “Food Is Energy” radio show with Ray Cooper. A wide-ranging one-hour talk about trees, TreeSpirit, Jack’s roots in big, bad New York City, the crucial role trees and forests play in our lives, a plant-based diet, the treatment of animals and more. October 22, 2018
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KPCA INTERVIEW with Jack Gescheidt, on “Food Is Energy” radio show with Ray Cooper. With special guest Dr. Will Tuttle, author of “The World Peace Diet.” A full hour, far-ranging talk about trees, TreeSpirit, Jack’s roots, food, a plant-based diet, the treatment of animals and more. July 23, 2018
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Main Street Vegan RADIO INTERVIEW with Jack Gescheidt, by Victoria Moran: A lighthearted talk about TreeSpirit, trees, New York City, Central Park, vegans, veganism, the doc. film “Cowspiracy,” Dr. Will Tuttle, and not so much about the planet Vega. Sept. 23, 2015
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KCBS RADIO INTERVIEW with Jack Gescheidt, by Megan Goldsby, at TreeSpirit’s “STAND UP for 450,000 trees” event in the eucalyptus grove on The UC Berkeley Campus, Berkeley, CA. July 18, 2015.
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Interview with Jack by “RAW Artist” producer & host Jesse Daniels, May 2014:
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5:48 • Jack speaks with Margie Shafer after making a photograph in The Memorial Oak Grove in Berkeley, CA. Jack was warned by police he would be subject to arrest if he proceeded with his plan to photograph demonstrators in a threatened oak grove. March 17, 2007.
1:24 • KQED’s Erica Kelly speaks briefly with Jack before his photograph in The Memorial Oak Grove in Berkeley, CA, March 2007.
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BEFORE the TreeSpirit photograph in Richardson Grove State Park in Humboldt County, CA, where 1,000-year-old redwoods would be damaged by a highway widening project, Jack talks with Paul Encimer. August, 2010.
6:16 • AFTER the photograph in Richardson Grove State Park, Aliana Knapp-Prasek hosts Jack’s download of the experience (Humboldt County, CA) where 1,000-year-old redwoods would be damaged by a highway widening project. September 14, 2010.
A longer interview with Jack by SF Bay Area relationship therapist Dr. Claudia Six, M.A., Ph D, Board Certified.
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Podcaster Meredith Medland of Personal Life Media‘s “Living Green Show” talks with Jack about how TreeSpirit began, and more. CLICK ON IMAGE TO PLAY.
Jack talks with Jerry Hart of Smart Green Travel in a longer interview. October 10, 2010.