MILL VALLEY, CALIFORNIA (Enviro Snowflake Brief- Not Real News)— The Resilient Agriculture Group (RAG), fronted by several local figures known for pro-farming political positions, have gained National Park Service support to consider an “alternative preferred plan” to remove and ban any human not associated with the hardworking ranchers from the national park to assure their tradition of decimating the landscape and wildlife with their sacred cows.
Phyllis Faber, one of the principal founders of the group says, “What RAG wants is everything the ranchers want, and everything most ranchers get across the public lands out West, and that’s priority for cows over wildlife, cows over healthy landscapes, and a deaf hear to public opinion.
Many of the leaders in the conservation community, who have been battling the local ranchers regarding co-existence with the park’s tule elk and 20 year leases find RAG’s announced “alternative preferred plan” to remove all human visitors from having access to the park as simply a disingenuous attempt to get the public to back off the National Park Service announced “preferred plan” which will include killing tule elk to protect the rancher’s fences and cattle, etc- cows over wildlife.
“Our concern is ranchers want to privatize the seashore, and add the right to start killing all wildlife in conflict with their cattle,” said Neal Desai, director of field operations with the National Parks Conservation Association.
Kevin Lunny, a RAG member, whose family has ranched cattle for generations at Point Reyes and who used to own Drakes Bay Oyster Company, said, “Nope that’s 100% wrong. We really want to clear out the human presence stomping around on our cow’s park which disturbs our cattle, and in the near future, human visitors will also be a frustrating delay on tule elk hunts around the national park for the Trump boys.”
Lunny apparently worked out support for RAG’s preferred plan with President Trump on his recent White House visit after lunching with Don Jr and Eric Trump.
Cicely Muldoon, Point Reyes National Seashore’s Superintendent, released a statement. “RAG’s proposal strikes the right balance. By arriving at this, we protect all the cattle, we respect the ranching heritage of the park, and I think demonstrate that human tourists can still have many vista views outside the park.”
“There is room for us to support Don Jr. and Eric having controlled tule elk hunts annually while still allowing a maximum of 120 tule elk in the park and no human visitors,” added Muldoon.
Center of Biological Diversity’s Senior conservation advocate, Jeff Miller stated, “This is a shockingly anti-wildlife plan, anti-public plan, and killing these elk will do nothing to fix or reduce the environmental damage caused by cattle ranching…What is the Park Service thinking?”
From this reporter’s perspective, I think this is a predictable plan driven by the Trump’s Interior Department and is only missing a fracking lease.
