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Resources

An Administrative History of Point Reyes National Seashore

http://npshistory.com/publications/pore/adhi.pdf

2016 Complaint by Resource Renewal Institute, Center for Biological Diversity, and Western Watersheds Project

https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/public_lands/grazing/pdfs/Point_Reyes_complaint_2-10-16.pdf

Point Reyes National Seashore Tule Elk Management Plan, 1998

https://www.nps.gov/pore/learn/management/upload/planning_tule_elk_mp_ea_1998.pdf

Tule Elk Wars: Was Ranching Really Meant to be Forever in Point Reyes National Seashore? (EnviroNews Investigative Report)

https://www.environews.tv/120321-tule-elk-wars-was-ranching-really-meant-to-be-forever-in-point-reyes-national-seashore-environews-investigative-report/


Conservation Groups Petition Park Service to Tear Down Elk Fence at Point Reyes


Point Reyes National Something - or - Other

Ken Bouley, The Wildlife News 3/21


“Apocalypse Cow:” Point Reyes National Seashore Launches a Propaganda War Targeting Independent Journalism

Erik Molvar, Counter Punch 2/21


It's Not Too Late for Point Reyes to be Part of 30/30 Initiative

Deb Moskowitz, Marin Independent Journal 2/21


 Point Reyes Seashore is One Step Closer to a National Dairy Farm 

Joe Sweeney, The California Aggie -  UC Davis 1/21   


Point Reyes: Planning or Performance  

Ken Bouley,  Bay Nature Magazine 1/21


Livestock Grazing Destroys Biological Soil Crust and Carbon Sequestration

Laura Cunningham, The No Bull Sheet 5/20


Unique Elk in California May Be Killed Under Controversial Plan 

 Erica Gies, National Geographic 9/30/20


Welcome to Point Reyes National Cattle Ranch  

George Weurthner, The Wildlife News 9/30/20 


MALT Board of Directors’ Conflicts of Interest Exposed as Legal Battle Unfolds  Peter Byrne, Bohemian 9/29/20


National Park Service allows for the killing of native elk to appease ranchers, angering conservationists   

 Austa Somvichian-Clausen, The Hill 9/23/20


Park Service Finalizes Disastrous Point Reyes Plan to Kill Native Wildlife, Prioritize Commercial Livestock Grazing  

Center for Biological Diversity  9/18/20


Trump's fix is on Point Reyes

Erik Molvar, The Wildlife news


Ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore doesn't add up

Deborah Moskovitz, Resource Renewal Institute

Mission Rewild

Wildlife photographer Matthew Polvorosa Kline founded this organization which is dedicated to conserving the tule elk of Point Reyes National Seashore and other wildlife. In the midst of the Anthropocene our journey begins… Mission Rewild was founded to serve our natural world by providing an inspiring voice and a lasting vision rooted deeply in a more ecologically minded ethic. Through storytelling, visual arts, education and advocacy our conservation efforts prioritize the unique and spectacular wildlife, biodiversity and natural heritage we still have left while working tirelessly to rewild our interconnected Earth. 

https://www.missionrewild.org




Sierra Club Ken Brower and Point Reyes National Seashore 

Video 9/13/20 


 General Management Plan Amendment Final Environmental Impact Statement 

 National Park Service 9/18/20


Point Reyes Releases Final Plan to Preserve Ranches, Cull Tule Elk  

Will Houston Marin IJ  9/18/2020


 Concern Growing Over Health of Tule Elk at Point Reyes National Seashore 

K. Repanshek, National Parks Traveler


National Park Service Pressed to Tear Down Elk Barrier, Ensure Water Supply for Pt Reyes Elk  Harvard Animal Law & Center for Biological Diversity  


How Livestock Differs from Wildlife  

George Wuerthner, Wildlife News


Tule Elk at Center of Epic Conservation Battle on Pt Reyes Seashore   

S. Parks, Roadtrippers Magazine 


Disservice to the Community - Rely on Science Instead 

Sarah Killingsworth, The Wildlife News


Park Service Ignores Public Health Risk of Cattle Disease at Seashore  

D. Moskowitz, Pt. Reyes Light 


How a Family-Run Oyster Business Caused a National Ruckus  

Simon Worrall, National Geographic


The California Coastal Prairie of PRNS From Prehistory to Ranching - And Beyond

Bruce Keegan


Point Reyes: Taken by Surprise: Shrublands of Point Reyes By Judith Larner Lowry, Bay Nature, July 01, 2012 -- https://baynature.org/article/point-reyes-taken-by-surprise/ 


Point Reyes: Fidel’s Place: Tomales Point Grasslands By Greg Sarris, Bay Nature, July 01, 2012 -- https://baynature.org/article/point-reyes-fidels-place/ 


WATCH: 

 National Park Service: In Service of Ranchers 

The Shame of Point Reyes - Feature Film by Skyler Thomas



PODCASTS:

PRNS featured on The Project Censored Radio Show

How Do Private Interests Maintain Control over Public Land? 

Kenneth Brower on Saving Point Reyes National Seashore - Rewilding Earth

Correcting the Mismanagement at Point Reyes National Seashore - Rewilding Earth

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Downloads

Myths of Point Reyes (docx)Download

No Bull Sheet - Laura Cunningham


WEBINARS: 

Introduction: 'Point Reyes: A Wilderness in Peril'

Chance Cutrano: Historical Legislation and Leasing Agreements at PRNS

Laura Cunningham:Myths of 'Conservation Grazing' w/Skyler Thomas

Skyler Thomas: The Truth about Carbon Farming

Skyler Thomas: Full Playlist: Biodiversity vs Pasture & more

David McGuire: Water Quality Effects on Marine Life at PRNS 

K. Bouley: Categorization of Public Comments on PRNS Draft EIR

Dr L. Martin Griffin: Protecting Point Reyes National Seashore

Kenneth Brower: Saving Point Reyes Seashore

 James Coda, Atty.: Wildlife vs Ranching

William P. Mott  & Robert Johnston: A New Vision for the Coast
Laura Cunningham & Chance Cutrano: Review of Final Environmental Impact Statement   
 

National Park Service Betraying its Mission at Pt Reyes Seashore

National Park Service Betraying its Mission at Pt Reyes Seashore

National Park Service Betraying its Mission at Pt Reyes Seashore

 

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.  


LISTEN

The Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks Signs on!

National Park Service Betraying its Mission at Pt Reyes Seashore

National Park Service Betraying its Mission at Pt Reyes Seashore

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. 

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Pt. Reyes National Feedlot Backed by Surprising Allies, Usual Suspects

Pt. Reyes National Feedlot Backed by Surprising Allies, Usual Suspects

Pt. Reyes National Feedlot Backed by Surprising Allies, Usual Suspects

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.



READ

Scores of tule elk died at Pt. Reyes in 2020 - Are their days numbered?

Pt. Reyes National Feedlot Backed by Surprising Allies, Usual Suspects

Pt. Reyes National Feedlot Backed by Surprising Allies, Usual Suspects

 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


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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..."

READ

Save Our National Seashore

NPS at PRNS Launches a Propaganda War Targeting Independent Journalism

NPS at PRNS Launches a Propaganda War Targeting Independent Journalism

 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.  

WATCH

PRNS: The People Have Spoken

A Question of Adequate Water Supply

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.”

WATCH

A Question of Adequate Water Supply

A Question of Adequate Water Supply

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. 


https://www.facebook.com/shameofpointreyes

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