Point Reyes: A Wilderness in Peril
Learn about this national gem and how it’s being devastated by pollution, habitat loss and giveaways to private industry.
OUR VISION: The Future of Point Reyes will...
Honor Indigenous History
A National Seashore that truly honors the history of the Coast Miwok in Point Reyes, preserving important cultural and historic sites, as well as taking care to respect and encourage indigenous participation.
Restore & Rewild the entire Park
The preservation, stewardship, and restoration of the entire Coastal Prairie Ecosystem where wildlife can flourish and be undisturbed and unpolluted by the extractive commercial ranching found across Marin County.
Increase equitable access
A National Seashore that works to attract a wider variety of people, while protecting the ecology and is accessible to low income communities from the Bay Area and protected for use by the countless generations to come.
Fight Climate Change
Point Reyes will become a component of the 30 by 30 plan and function as an important Carbon Sink on the West Coast as it's our ONLY National Seashore on this side of the Continental U.S.
PRESS RELEASE: July 14, 2021
The National Park Service (NPS) has received a 60-day extension in order to complete a highly controversial plan for commercial ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore.
The General Management Plan Amendment, which would issue 20-year leases to private beef and dairy operations, expand livestock, allow cultivating commercial crops and kill native elk, was to be completed by a court-ordered deadline of July 14, 2021.
Further details HERE at ForElk.org.
Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard Says We Need to Protect Pt. Reyes
Will the McClure Ranch shut down bring an opportunity to begin healing the Park?
Will the McClure Ranch shut down bring an opportunity to begin healing the Park?
My life has been indescribably enriched by public lands, and one of the most beautiful on earth is fast losing its wildness: Point Reyes National Seashore.
Tragically, the very organization charged with protecting Point Reyes, the national park, is hastening its demise.
If approved, the (NPS) proposal will turn this national seashore into a national disgrace.
Will the McClure Ranch shut down bring an opportunity to begin healing the Park?
Will the McClure Ranch shut down bring an opportunity to begin healing the Park?
Will the McClure Ranch shut down bring an opportunity to begin healing the Park?
The McClure dairy, the largest and oldest dairy in the seashore, will shut down, citing water shortages and a glut of organic milk.
As McClure’s blinks out, now would seem the time to follow up on Rep. Huffman’s suggestion to "expand wilderness areas and maybe even we’ll be expanding elk herds further. "
WEBINAR: Debunking the Myths of Point Reyes National Seashore
Will the McClure Ranch shut down bring an opportunity to begin healing the Park?
WEBINAR: Debunking the Myths of Point Reyes National Seashore
June 30, 2021
"You are entitled to your opinion. But you are not entitled to your own facts." (Daniel P. Moynihan)
There is no shortage of opinions on ranching in Point Reyes National Seashore, but there is a shortage of durable facts.
Join subject matter experts to learn what is fact and what is fiction regarding various issues related to PRNS.
Read the full paper HERE.
Death by Design: How the National Park Service experiments on Tule Elk
Death by Design: How the National Park Service experiments on Tule Elk
Death by Design: How the National Park Service experiments on Tule Elk
By Peter Byrne
Pacific Sun/N. Bay Bohemian Jun 30, '21
The Pacific Sun/Bohemian has uncovered that the National Park Service at Point Reyes has killed tule elk, often in torturous ways, in medical experiments for decades. The federal agency absolves itself of any moral responsibility by blaming nature for the deaths. If only that were true.
National Park Service Betraying its Mission at Pt Reyes Seashore
Death by Design: How the National Park Service experiments on Tule Elk
Death by Design: How the National Park Service experiments on Tule Elk
Mickey Huff of Project Censored Radio
is joined by Peter Byrne, award-winning investigative journalist and
Will Carruthers, award-winning reporter to discuss-
How the NPS is favoring legacy cattle ranches and dairies
over preservation of the land and the survival of the native Tule Elk.
Sierra Club: Captive Tule Elk Are Dying in Pt. Reyes
Death by Design: How the National Park Service experiments on Tule Elk
The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks Signs on!
The Sierra Club has become extremely concerned about Pt Reyes Nat'l Seashore’s management of the 2,600-acre Tomales Point Elk Reserve, where tule elk are held captive behind an
8 foot woven-wire fence. 254 individual elk (47% of the population) died there during the 2012-2015 drought while the wild, free-roaming Drakes Beach and Limantour herds increased.
We are now in another drought. The Seashore allowed another 152 elk to die in the Tomales Point enclosure last year.
The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks Signs on!
Tamál Húye: Coast Miwoks Fight for Recognition of Pt. Reyes’ Indigenous History
The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks Signs on!
Over 50 organizations, including the Coalition to Protect America's National Parks – have joined together to urge the Department of the Interior to stop the National Park Service’s imminent
General Management Plan Amendment (GMPA) for Point Reyes National Seashore,
a plan that favors special interests over the public use, protection and restoration of this National Park.
Tamál Húye: Coast Miwoks Fight for Recognition of Pt. Reyes’ Indigenous History
Tamál Húye: Coast Miwoks Fight for Recognition of Pt. Reyes’ Indigenous History
Tamál Húye: Coast Miwoks Fight for Recognition of Pt. Reyes’ Indigenous History
On April 22, the California Coastal Commission held a virtual hearing to discuss the impact of dairy and cattle ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore. Superintendent Craig Kenkel began his presentation with the words, “Point Reyes is the ancestral home of the Coast Miwok.”
Kenkel spent the rest of his talk advocating for a Park Service proposal to increase the terms of ranching leases from five to 20 years.
Pt. Reyes National Feedlot Backed by Surprising Allies, Usual Suspects
Tamál Húye: Coast Miwoks Fight for Recognition of Pt. Reyes’ Indigenous History
Tamál Húye: Coast Miwoks Fight for Recognition of Pt. Reyes’ Indigenous History
Right now, the National Park Service is rewriting its General Management Plan for Point Reyes National Seashore, and the agency must decide whether to sunset the expired livestock grazing leases across tens of thousands of publicly-owned acres, or to continue authorizing unsustainable overgrazing, tillage agriculture and even the killing of native tule elk by extending leases that were never intended to continue on indefinitely.
Scores of tule elk died at Pt. Reyes in 2020 - Are their days numbered?
Scores of tule elk died at Pt. Reyes in 2020 - Are their days numbered?
Scores of tule elk died at Pt. Reyes in 2020 - Are their days numbered?
Tule elk are treasured creatures in California, and for years, animal rights groups have butted heads with the Point Reyes National Seashore over its practice of keeping elk fenced away from nearby cattle ranches.
Amid a dry 2020, the groups tried to bring water to the creatures but were rebuffed by the National Park Service.
LA Times 4/14/21
Elk Deaths Mount at Pt Reyes- Cause of Death: Politics
Scores of tule elk died at Pt. Reyes in 2020 - Are their days numbered?
Scores of tule elk died at Pt. Reyes in 2020 - Are their days numbered?
The National Park Service (NPS) has issued a press release revealing that 152 Tule elk, one-third of the Tomales Point herd, died at Point Reyes National Seashore. The deaths occurred because elk were trapped behind an 8-foot fence
that encloses the park’s Tule Elk Reserve, where the NPS confines the rare elk to keep them off parklands reserved for cattle.
Apocalypse Cow: The Future of Life at Point Reyes National Park
NPS at PRNS Launches a Propaganda War Targeting Independent Journalism
Apocalypse Cow: The Future of Life at Point Reyes National Park
Investigative reporter Peter Byrne takes a close look at the history of PRNS and a look at the controversial plan to extend the leases of cattle ranches and dairies located within the beloved park.
This article spurred pushback from PRNS staff however their statements about the facts presented in the article are demonstrably inaccurate.
Breaking News: Fecal Bacteria Poisons Point Reyes Beaches
NPS at PRNS Launches a Propaganda War Targeting Independent Journalism
Apocalypse Cow: The Future of Life at Point Reyes National Park
Kehoe Lagoon seethes with 300 times the acceptable amount of Enterococcus,
E. Coli's nasty bacterial cousin.
Public records show that Park Service administrators and the California Regional Water Quality Control Board have long known that astronomically high levels of microorganisms flow directly from livestock into the Park’s recreational and fishing waters. And these agencies have done nothing to effectively eliminate the source of the potentially lethal bacterial invasions.
NPS at PRNS Launches a Propaganda War Targeting Independent Journalism
NPS at PRNS Launches a Propaganda War Targeting Independent Journalism
NPS at PRNS Launches a Propaganda War Targeting Independent Journalism
Erik Molvar, Counter Punch 2/21
"Apocalypse Cow" article by P.Byrne heats up the debate. "The National Park Service unit is launching a propaganda war in a desperate effort to control the media narrative, and to cover up decades of laissez-faire mismanagement of livestock operations leasing Park Service lands on the National Seashore..."
Project Coyote speaks out against expansion of ranching at PRNS
Project Coyote speaks out against expansion of ranching at PRNS
NPS at PRNS Launches a Propaganda War Targeting Independent Journalism
Project Coyote, as well as hundreds of other organizations and individuals, submitted comments to the NPS’s Draft Environmental Impact Statement for PRNS and Golden Gate Natl. Recreation Area speaking out against expansion of ranching in the park arguing that such a proposal will only increase conflicts between wildlife and livestock.
National Park Service: In Service of Ranchers
Project Coyote speaks out against expansion of ranching at PRNS
National Park Service: In Service of Ranchers
Disregarding climate change, science and more than 7,000 comments from the public, the NPS has released its final General Management Plan Amendment for ranching at Point Reyes Seashore. The plan extends 20-year leases to the 24 ranchers grazing cattle in the Natl. Seashore, allows livestock diversification, and calls for the killing of native Tule elk.
Save Our National Seashore
Project Coyote speaks out against expansion of ranching at PRNS
National Park Service: In Service of Ranchers
Point Reyes National Seashore is under siege by the National Park Service; the organization sworn to protect this fragile and unique ecosystem for the benefit of the public access and recreation, biodiversity and wildlife.
Tule Elk have become the symbol of a battle between private enterprise and public interest.
Jared Huffman's Betrayal of Point Reyes Seashore
Harvard Law Clinic Sues National Park Service Over Failure to Protect Tule Elk
Harvard Law Clinic Sues National Park Service Over Failure to Protect Tule Elk
Shocking two-minute video of our Congressman Jared Huffman offering up California's native Tule elk to Representative Garret Graves (Rep) of Louisiana in his legislative efforts to pass Bill HR 6687 perpetuating private commercial ranching on Point Reyes National Seashore and promoting the killing of native Tule elk.
Harvard Law Clinic Sues National Park Service Over Failure to Protect Tule Elk
Harvard Law Clinic Sues National Park Service Over Failure to Protect Tule Elk
Harvard Law Clinic Sues National Park Service Over Failure to Protect Tule Elk
Harvard Law School’s Animal Law & Policy Clinic took legal action against the National Park Service today for its negligence in allowing tule elk to die slow and preventable deaths as a result of starvation and dehydration at Point Reyes National Seashore in Northern California.
PRNS: The People Have Spoken
Harvard Law Clinic Sues National Park Service Over Failure to Protect Tule Elk
A Question of Adequate Water Supply
“An analysis of the public comments submitted to the National Park Service regarding the future management of Pt. Reyes National Seashore shows an overwhelming preference for wilderness and wildlife over commercial ranching and dairies."
- Ken Bouley, concerned local citizen.”
A Question of Adequate Water Supply
How do Private Interests maintain Control over Public Land?
A Question of Adequate Water Supply
Part 2
of a series exploring the old,
but still standing, Tule elk fence while discovering more corpses and and wildlife hazards.
PRNS Ranchers - Serving the American People?
How do Private Interests maintain Control over Public Land?
How do Private Interests maintain Control over Public Land?
Ranchers at PRNS are wealthier than 90% of the American population and still receive discounted rents, disproportionately low grazing fees and subsidies to support their enterprises - all funded with our tax dollars.
Confused? So are we. Watch to learn more.
How do Private Interests maintain Control over Public Land?
How do Private Interests maintain Control over Public Land?
How do Private Interests maintain Control over Public Land?
Join Mickey Huff of Project Censored for a discussion with Laura Cunningham and Mark Bartonlini on the conflict of interests and issues of social justice at play in this battle for our national seashore.