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DESCRIPTION:In Defense of Animals is hosting the largest-ever rally for the Point Reyes 
 Tule elk at 12 noon (until 2:15pm) on Saturday, December 4th at San 
 Francisco’s Crissy Field, near the iconic Golden Gate Bridge, to protect 
 the fewer than 590 remaining elk.  \n\nThe National Park Service has yet 
 again betrayed its charter mission to protect the rare, wild Tule elk — 
 and all the wild animals — in its care at Point Reyes National Seashore, 
 just 20 miles from San Francisco.  Its new General Management Plan, 
 announced in September, grants cattle operations — which pollute the park 
 and displace and harm wild Tule elk — new 20-year-long leases.\n\nEven 
 more outrageous, the new management plan authorizes actually shooting some 
 Tule elk to death. If their numbers increase beyond an arbitrary limit 
 advocated by ranch operators, they will be “culled” — bureaucratic 
 jargon for “kill” — inside this national seashore park where wild 
 animals are supposed to have the highest level of protection in America, 
 not be confined and exterminated.\n\nThis event, co-hosted by TreeSpirit 
 Project, Turtle Island Restoration Network, Western Watersheds Project, and 
 Resource Renewal Institute, will educate the public and alert the media of 
 the National Park Service’s wildlife and climate-killing killing policies 
 which are enacted only to profit private cattle ranches.\n\nThe 5,000 
 privately-owned beef and dairy cows, on public land at Point Reyes National 
 Park, contribute to the climate crisis with more greenhouse gas emissions 
 than all the tailpipe emissions from the park's 2,000,000 annual 
 visitors’ vehicles.  Ranches have jammed 5,000 dairy and beef cows onto 
 the leased (not owned) land because they are tax-payer subsidized at 
 ½-market value rates. \n\nThese corporate cattle operations are landgrabs, 
 displacing fully 1/3rd of this national seashore’s 71,000-acres. Millions 
 of gallons of cow feces and urine denude Point Reyes and pollute its waters 
 every year; this raw sewage draining into the Pacific Ocean and contiguous 
 protected marine sanctuary.\n\nEvery year, millions of Americans visit this 
 unique nature preserve in Marin County, California, to enjoy and renew 
 their spirits on wild lands which are supposed to be teeming with 
 free-roaming wild animals.  But political corruption has upended the 
 park’s reason for being. 28,000 acres of this 71,000-acre National 
 Seashore has been overrun by private cattle operations. Their hundreds of 
 miles of cattle fences restrict the health, free movement and reproduction 
 of elk and deer alike, while also blocking public access to their own 
 park.\n\nStand up for the Tule elk. Join our biggest-ever demonstration on 
 Crissy Field in San Francisco at 12 noon, Saturday, December 4th. If you 
 can’t attend, tell friends who can. We can reclaim this unique national 
 park on California’s pristine coastline, and protect the few remaining 
 rare Tule elk who should be free to roam and expand their herds. 
 \n\nIndicate you’re “Going” on the Facebook event page: 
 https://www.facebook.com/events/1042741976517062\n \nMore information: 
 \nhttp://www.TreeSpiritProject.com/elk\nhttp://www.IDAusa.org/elk\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/11/29/18846505.php
SUMMARY:Rally to "Free the Elk & Cut the Cow Crap" @ Point Reyes National Cesspool Penitentiary
LOCATION:Crissy Field, The Presidio, San Francisco
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2021/11/29/18846505.php
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