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 …
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, …
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 …
The Bay Area Chapter of the Sierra Club has weighed in on the lethal National Park Service policy of keeping hundreds of rare, wild Tule elk inside a compound lacking adequate food & water. Any zoo doing this, keeping animals from …