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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..."
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.
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.
“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.”
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.
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.
Part 2
of a series exploring the old,
but still standing, Tule elk fence while discovering more corpses and and wildlife hazards.
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.