Point Reyes has a long history of ranching and, unfortunately, government bureaucrats put the interests of animal agriculture over the native Tule elk.
Also see In Defense of Animals Action Alert, October 1...
Organizations calling on the National Park Service NPS to remove the fencing trapping the elk include: In Defense of Animals, ForELK, Rancho Compasión, Western Watersheds Project, Resource Renewal Institute, The TreeSpirit Project, The Center for Biological Diversity, and Save Point Reyes National Seashore.
COMPETITION FOR LAND
Point Reyes has a long history of ranching and, unfortunately, government bureaucrats put the interests of animal agriculture over the native Tule elk. More than 5,000 cows live in the protected land of Point Reyes National Seashore while less than 500 Tule elk live there. Activists say that the NPS refuses to give the elk water because they are acting at the behest of ranching interests that want the elk gone. It’s a battle over grazing land. The activists and experts in the Jane Unchained News Facebook Live tell Jane that NPS wants the elk dead to help the ranchers.
An eight-foot fence contains the elk to Tomales Point leaving them unable to roam free and at risk of dying from thirst as ponds dry up in the area.
DEMAND THAT FENCING BE REMOVED:
Contact Information for the Superintendent and Pacific Regional Director:
Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS)
Acting Superintendent Carey Feierabend
1 Bear Valley Road
Point Reyes Station, CA 94
[email protected]
415 464-5102
National Park Service (NPS)
Pacific Regional Director, Woody Smeck
333 Bush St., Suite 500
San Francisco, CA 94104-2828
[email protected]
cc: [email protected]
415-623-2100
Other Contacts:
In Defense of Animals, Lisa Levinson,
[email protected] - 215-620-2130
ForELK, Diana Oppenheim,
[email protected] - 248-840-5684,
Rancho Compasión, Dawn Rogers,
[email protected] - 510-990-6443
TreeSpirit Project, Jack Gescheidt,
[email protected] -
415-488-4200
Activists, including Jack Gescheidt, took it into their own hands and decided to take water to Tule Elk, but they were condemned by the NPS.
From IDA In Defense of Animals October 1:
Please contact these officials who can use their influence to oppose
Alternative B and support Alternative F on the Environmental Impact
Statement for the Point Reyes National Seashore.
You can say, "I oppose expanded ranching and shooting Tule elk at Point
Reyes National Seashore, recommended in Alternative B of the Environmental
Impact Statement. Can you stop this travesty? Please urge further inquiry,
such as water quality tests and a supplemental environmental impact report
on drought and wildfires, before National Park Service Regional Director
Woody Smeck signs this disastrous plan."
California Governor, Gavin Newsom, (916) 445-2841
California Congressman, Adam Schiff, (818) 450-2900
California Congressman, Jared Huffman, (202) 225-5161
United States Senator, Kamala Harris, (202) 224-3553
United States Senator, Dianne Feinstein, (415) 393-0707
California Secretary for Natural Resources, Wade Crowfoot, (916) 653-5656
Kamala Harris' California State Director, Heather Hutt, (310) 231-4494
California Coastal Commission, Executive Director, John Ainsworth, (415)
904-5202
California State Water Resources Control Board, Office of Public Affairs,
Director, George Kostyrko, (916) 341-7365
California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Elk and Pronghorn Division,
Kristin Denryter, (916) 801-0649
Point Reyes National Seashore, Acting Superintendent Carey Feierabend, (415)
464-5102
National Park Service, Office of Pacific Regional Director, Woody Smeck,
(415) 623-2100, then press 1, 0
National Park Service, Wildlife Ecologist, Dave Press, (415) 858-9667
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Chief Scientist, Craig
McLean, (301) 713-2458
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries
Service, Director of Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor, Dr.
Francisco Werner, (301) 427-8000
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Environmental Advisory Board, Dr. Lydia
Olander, (919) 613-8713
United States Secretary of the Interior, David Bernhardt, (202) 208-3100
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