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, …
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 …
LITIGATION, LAWYERS & LIES We activists, wild animal protectors, and national park advocates were all primed to watch the latest court proceedings, on Friday, October 18th (2024), for one of the two ongoing lawsuits involving Point Reyes National Seashore. Either lawsuit, in different ways, could result in finally freeing the magnificent Tule elk from …
When is that %#@! Pt. Reyes elk fence coming down?? For those of you who’ve been wondering, here’s the latest news re. the fenced-in herd of Tule elk at Point Reyes National Seashore. On Sept. 12, 2024, the CCC approved the NPS’ TPAP for the Tule Elk Reserve at PRNS north of SF, CA, …
HELP THE ELK: Comment to the Park Service by Wed. June 5th, 2024 Tell the National Park Service (NPS) that you support their own “preferred Alternative B” which would dismantle the 8-foot-tall, 3-mile-long fence of the Tule Elk Reserve at Tomales Point at Point Reyes National Seashore. While technically this is NOT a vote, …
The elk finally had their day in the Ninth Circuit Federal Appellate Court in San Francisco, before a 3-judge panel, around 10:30am this past Monday, April 1st (yes, April Fool’s Day, but this ain’t no foolin’ around). Our superstar-before-the-bar, attorney, Rebecca Garverman of the Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic, which brought this suit for …
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 …
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 …