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
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
Austa Somvichian-Clausen, The Hill 9/23/20
Center for Biological Diversity 9/18/20
Erik Molvar, The Wildlife news
Ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore doesn't add up
Deborah Moskovitz, Resource Renewal Institute
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.
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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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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
“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.”
Part 2
of a series exploring the old,
but still standing, Tule elk fence while discovering more corpses and and wildlife hazards.