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CL Wafe's avatar

Why do I believe this has nothing to do with environmental concerns but more to grab the land while simultaneously eliminating private ranches and dairy farms? After all, cows and cattle fart, and Globalists want to control food. We need more private ranchers, less Tyson, Cargill, and JBS, and the same for dairy.

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Sarah Henton's avatar

Elk fart, burp, poop & pee too - they are ruminants & burp up their cud to chew & swallow again for digestibility - just like deer, moose, antelope, camels, sheep, llamas, goats, gazelles, giraffes, wildebeests, etc

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JFB's avatar

You are exactly right about globalist food control. Our updated and improved executive branch needs to be made aware of this; with luck, the Sec of Interior can make an example of those who rammed this through.

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Sarah Henton's avatar

Similar land grab in Solano County proof "enviro" land grabs are shilling for urban development - as the California Forever investors bully farmers to sell land for a 53,000 acre city belong to SF-based developers' group SPUR.org whose subsidiary is Greenbelt Alliance that pretends to be "against" the new city. SPUR's former CEO is now on California Forever's team.

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Deborah Gregson's avatar

I believe this is the greater motivation for the eventual development of the Point for maximum multimillion-dollar estates along the coastline. The Southern and Monterey Coasts are full, so they're now eyeing the Northern Coastal areas that have so far been protected.

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Katherine Lee's avatar

Thank you again for another enlightening article. Mr. Evans is spot on and makes eloquent statements IN FAVOR of beneficial human interaction with the land. I wish him and his family all the best in this insidious overreach from organizations who know little to nothing about what that land is actually capable of.

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JasonT's avatar

Great work on this. The long march through the agencies is not by chance. The Left hates us and wishes us dead. They have no concern for the land, only for the power. And there are plenty of useful idiots to do the dirty work, always have been. NPS is complicit, they are one of the worst agencies. The damage will not be undone for decades, if ever.

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Sarah Henton's avatar

they are shills for developers - as so are animal right groups who wrote & run the UN's Paris Agreement.

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Meg Cadiz's avatar

I fully support the Evans and Niman families for calling out the NPS and Nature Conservancy. Nothing about the deal felt right in our community and the gag order was meant to withhold transparency. How could this have happened? Hoodwinked comes to mind. I am very interested in hearing more facts. I support agriculture, prosperity and its future in my West Marin community.

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K Tucker Andersen's avatar

Why I am I not surprised by any of this? Thanks for the reporting. The national HQ and many of the local chapters of TNC have lost sight of their initials mission, although some of the local chapters on balance do bid work in a responsible manner. TNC got totally mesmerized, seduced and corrupted br the lure of government money and power. Such a partnership may be possible in theory but not in practice, Really are no longer a private player in the conservation movement.

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Robert Shannon's avatar

Let's see how long it takes for the wildfires to start and commercial tourist development to happen. I loved going out there on the Pointe and seeing the cattle grazing and the wild grasses growth managed.

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BornAlive's avatar

all you need to see is the healthy green grass and the healthy cows. that is all that is needed to know what is good and right for the land and the animals. the rest is some absolute money grabbing lying sack of sh*t nonsense governmental parade of blah blah bs bs powedery wigged crap. i'm sick of it all. 'save the planet' then hurt the people actually doing The Good. welcome to the rez.

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Uncle Juan's avatar

You would think this would be something the Trump administration would want to wade into.

I thought Trump wasn’t a fan of these environmental groups.

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Brandon is not your bro's avatar

I pray this lawsuit does it fall on deaf ears . Here’s more BS. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qjVFB_x7W2Q

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Timmy Taes's avatar

Great article. The cattle rejuvenate the land. Cowpies fertilize the soil and encourage soil organisms.

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Linda Bray's avatar

Absolutely! That gorgeous green grass, fed by the nitrogen generously pooped into the soil by the cattle, will be replaced by brown weeds that burn. Apparently, none of the environmentalists have read Joel Salatin’s book, Folks, This Ain’t Normal!

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Timmy Taes's avatar

Joel Salatin is one of my heroes.

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ursel doran's avatar

There is a great scene in the movie "Partners" where the rancher tells the enviro weenies that he is going to take his small herd of cows to the feed lot to be butchered. They have adoped this very well scrubbedd small calf. They cringe and whine so he tells them the obvious. "Where do you think all that hamburger meat under the cellophane wrapping at the super market comes from?"

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ursel doran's avatar

The Greenie Enviro Weenies, some of them, and likely this group here, firmly belive that to have any disturbance of Mother Earth, whether with a cow herd walking on Mother Earth, and horrors of horrors scratching it with a plow, to generate food for humans is a unpardonable sin. They firmly belive that while driving on the asphalt roads in hydrocarbon burning autos and pickup trucks. It is a releigous cult like believing in druids and shamans.

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Sarah Henton's avatar

Just like PETA HSUS pretend to protect animals but want pets & livestock to go extinct - enviros pretend to protect environment but are shilling for developers who pave over 2 million acres per year.

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zaporozhe's avatar

Never framed as a swapping out of ruminants. 1800 A.D. an estimated 50 million buffalo were stampeding about, now there's 90 million cows.

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