The ruins of a once living, productive place. Now it's dead so that tourists can stare at the bulldozed land. The destroyers actually CREATED a ghost town. Insanity.
I see an old guy who used to have to get up at 4:30 in the morning every single day for 365 days a year only to discover that the neighbor's pet bull had ruined 40 thousand dollars worth of artificial insemination and now he's dozing in front of his 60 inch smart tv holding a can of beer.
I ordered three books from a cattle association but wrote “semen” in the checkbook. She called me at work. I reminded her we had talked about getting a hobby farm. “What are you going to do with it until then?” “Oh we’ll keep it behind the frozen pizzas.” Dead silence, then I couldn’t stop laughing.
Such eloquent photos! Thank you for this glimpse into what we cannot see for ourselves from far away. I would like, though, to be able to shake the hands of the people who so neatly tidied up, left the keys, and swept up meticulously. I see no signs of the rage that is their right. "Build it and they will come" is a poignant postscript.
"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." - Ephesians 6:12
Sometimes I repeat that scripture to myself when my boss or someone at work is being difficult. But I have been repeating it to myself a LOT more when perusing Bray's substack the last few years...
Don't be a romantic. The Bureau of Land Management hired a contractor who hired a subcontractor who hired a sub-subcontractor who hired a sub-sub-subcontractor, who charged the US taxpayer US$ 4,780.22 for three hours of work to vacuum the rugs.
Truly sad. We have one political party that sees this as success. I'm too old to fight them, but I am so very saddened by this. Many years ago I wandered around that stretch of the CA coast, when it was still agriculturally productive. It was beautiful. I wondered if there was some way I could ever be a part of it.
Now there's nothing left to be a part of. How very proud of themselves those politicians must be. How many years before the entire west coast follows this same example? Vancouver, Washington, Oregon, California, Baja California -- they're all on the way down. Congratulations, politicians -- you have destroyed the most beautiful part of the globe.
I grew up in L.A., moved to San Francisco in 1978 when I was in my early 20s. I traveled all over Marin and Sonoma Counties, Pt. Reyes was one of my favorite places. That whole area was still so beautiful, with lots of agriculture there, especially Sonoma county. Absolute beauty in those days and I, too, am very saddened by this.
Elections have been stolen in California for quite awhile. I lived there and saw the cheating myself, I saw laws broken when I went to vote. Gov. Gruesome was recalled a couple of years ago, 93% of voters voted for him to be recalled but he stayed in office, ignoring election results. I know 93% voted for him to be recalled because I read 2 different people who worked that recall election and they both said the same thing - that election was stolen and both said 93% voted to oust him.
But the thing is—both parties are controlled by the same people that control basically the entire world. There may be superficial differences, but nothing of significance ever changes. Divide and conquer is their MO. I wonder if the 2020 obvious steal was engineered in order to cause even more divisions?
I now live in a rural farm area in Nova Scotia, Canada. I spent my previous 65+ years in big cities. I have learned a lot from the locals and have grown to respect them so much for many reasons. The people who are voting for this stuff have no idea what they are doing to your country and mine and are just doing what their TV's tell them makes them good people. They really have zero concept about what supports the lifestyle they enjoy and are either unwittingly, or wittingly, destroying it not only for others but themselves as well.
Haunting and soul crushing. They - the regulatory regime that carries out the designs of the political class - took from those people their way of life. This is always the end state of the looting regime, whether here or in the rust belt towns of the Midwest or inner cities of blue zones. The ranchers could make the short trip to SF and pitch tents in the Tenderloin and be welcomed by the same people who drove them out of their homes and land. Demons.
These people neither know nor care about history, reality or what the results of their narcissistic and sanctimonious actions will be. I’m not going to be here for the worst of it, but I grieve for my grandchildren.
I have a very clear picture of the people who committed this crime. They were all Tesla drivers--now probably have the 'I bought this before Elon went crazy' bumper sticker. They all have some weird dietary needs...celiac, lactose intolerant, gluten intolerant, veggie, vegan. They stink. They have more money than I'll ever have. They suffer TDS.
The 'men' are low-T, gray-bearded, effeminate pleasers. The women are mostly ugly hags who light up with ferocious self-righteousness when thinking of killing ranchers.
I just despise the Left...in all of its gross permutations.
I went to their home page and gave it glance-over.
These people, they are the insane.
Yes, people in Mexico not having clean drinking water is a problem, and if CocaCola is cheaper than water that's a problem too - a Mexikan problem. How exactly does not producing dairy and meat in the USA help alleviate that?
And they say not a peep about China's 500 000 vessels strong fishing fleet - 17 000 of said vessels are super-tanker sized monstrosities trawling, scraping the bottom, all over the world giving ero effs to any concerns except meeting the quotas.
That'd be some environmentalism-militarism I'd get behind: NATO-nations utilising their naval assets to keep Chinese kill-the-maritime-ecosystem-fleets confided to around China.
Gah, now I'm so het up I'll have to go outside and chop firewood.
Why are you describing one of my neighbours to a T?
The guy is 35, looks older than me*, is stooped/hunched over - if he didn't have a sunken chest he'd have no chest at all, is so henpecked by his Cluster B-wife I almost wrote -pegged instead, and looks like he just got out of a concentration camp: sunken eyes, greying hair and (scraggly) beard, disheveled, has to follow his wife's weird diets (like only eating raw onions, keso, olives and cheese - that's the latest one).
And he works in tech, so she doesn't work at all, including not doing any housework or chores. Every time you think he's had enough and actually grown some balls, she gets him to knock her up again. Four feral kids going on five.
*I'm at that age where you start telling yourself turning sixty in a couple of years isn't any big deal...
This is so sad. Meanwhile Blue Triton (formerly Nestle) is free to extract and sell water from the San Bernardino National Forest. It's all so enraging.
It will end in a fire that destroys California. The ranchers on Point Reyes were maintaining the land and preventing fires. With them gone, all bets are off.
Wonder how those grasslands/pasture lands are being managed by the morons who took this land away from generations of ranchers out in Point Reyes? Are they relying on the Tule Elk to do the same kind of job as the cows did?
A jobs program for the ne’er-do-well issue of an effete and dissipated elite huffing the last fumes of noblesse from a greasy paper bag, utterly devoid of oblige.
What a bunch of mumbo jumbo from the Nature Conservancy in conjunction with the NPS.
In my entire life of being around the beef industry (my Dad raised pasture cattle in the Imperial Valley) have I never heard of the NPS or The Nature Conservancy being in the cattle business.
Oh I forgot they are seeking persons who are familiar with cattle ranching through these RFP’s, even though they basically threw the people who did know what they were doing off these grazing lands in Pt. Reyes.
Not really because the land is no longer their home. They have moved on. I don’t know if any of the displaced ranchers are still around the Pt. Reyes area. Maybe Chris knows?
So, this is all a performance tragicomedy art show of virtue signaling. Heifers grazing until they are ready to drop their first calves; cows having their regular holidays while being off their milking job; and some castrated beef, veal, or beef/dairy cross male cattle grazing on grass to get to market weight. A whole new s—- ton of driving the bovines to and fro wherever instead of a home-based dairy operation with very few arrivals and departures except one-ways outbound for “harvest” and a few inbounds to improve the herd. Will any NGO staffers who came up with this idea ever muck out barns needed for storms? Or doctor a bovine in an open field in the rain?
This is insulting to all of us, but mainly to the hard working people driven off this land. The ‘NGO’ and the ‘rewilding’ movement don’t want cattle to be recognized as an economically viable or ecologically beneficial food source. So, naturally, they had to kick out the people making a living off of feeding people Possible Burgers and Real Milk.
At least now the land will be treated with dignity and respect! The elk will frolic and play and everything will trip the light fantastic because the great California government is at work and the unwashed masses are no longer a pock on the landscape!
They make a desert and call it peace
Sad
Children playing with matches.
The ruins of a once living, productive place. Now it's dead so that tourists can stare at the bulldozed land. The destroyers actually CREATED a ghost town. Insanity.
I see an old guy who used to have to get up at 4:30 in the morning every single day for 365 days a year only to discover that the neighbor's pet bull had ruined 40 thousand dollars worth of artificial insemination and now he's dozing in front of his 60 inch smart tv holding a can of beer.
Best prank I ever pulled on my wife:
I ordered three books from a cattle association but wrote “semen” in the checkbook. She called me at work. I reminded her we had talked about getting a hobby farm. “What are you going to do with it until then?” “Oh we’ll keep it behind the frozen pizzas.” Dead silence, then I couldn’t stop laughing.
Such eloquent photos! Thank you for this glimpse into what we cannot see for ourselves from far away. I would like, though, to be able to shake the hands of the people who so neatly tidied up, left the keys, and swept up meticulously. I see no signs of the rage that is their right. "Build it and they will come" is a poignant postscript.
They vacuumed up. The houses are clean.
I think they made a statement before they left. Good people. It is hard to swallow but…… thanks Chris . Matthew 6:19-21
King James Version
19 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
20 But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
21 For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.
The vernacular of that would be: You can't take it with you.
"For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places." - Ephesians 6:12
Sometimes I repeat that scripture to myself when my boss or someone at work is being difficult. But I have been repeating it to myself a LOT more when perusing Bray's substack the last few years...
I noticed that everything was clean.
Great, but sad photos.
That's pride and class that comes from honest, humble people.
We hardly need to know anything else than that to know these were good, fine people. Their reward was cruelty and injustice.
Of course they did. The “environmentalists “ would have left trash like their rally’s.
Don't be a romantic. The Bureau of Land Management hired a contractor who hired a subcontractor who hired a sub-subcontractor who hired a sub-sub-subcontractor, who charged the US taxpayer US$ 4,780.22 for three hours of work to vacuum the rugs.
Ah, but 'Tax them too much and they will leave' should be the post script.
Socialist progress.
Truly sad. We have one political party that sees this as success. I'm too old to fight them, but I am so very saddened by this. Many years ago I wandered around that stretch of the CA coast, when it was still agriculturally productive. It was beautiful. I wondered if there was some way I could ever be a part of it.
Now there's nothing left to be a part of. How very proud of themselves those politicians must be. How many years before the entire west coast follows this same example? Vancouver, Washington, Oregon, California, Baja California -- they're all on the way down. Congratulations, politicians -- you have destroyed the most beautiful part of the globe.
I grew up in L.A., moved to San Francisco in 1978 when I was in my early 20s. I traveled all over Marin and Sonoma Counties, Pt. Reyes was one of my favorite places. That whole area was still so beautiful, with lots of agriculture there, especially Sonoma county. Absolute beauty in those days and I, too, am very saddened by this.
Never forget that those politicians you talk about won elections, A lot of people voted for them. People with no skin in the game.
Elections have been stolen in California for quite awhile. I lived there and saw the cheating myself, I saw laws broken when I went to vote. Gov. Gruesome was recalled a couple of years ago, 93% of voters voted for him to be recalled but he stayed in office, ignoring election results. I know 93% voted for him to be recalled because I read 2 different people who worked that recall election and they both said the same thing - that election was stolen and both said 93% voted to oust him.
I do believe you.
I listen to NPR (trying to understand) and they universally continue to say claims 2020 was stolen are "baseless" "unfounded" "debunked."
If you never look, you never have to see.
But the thing is—both parties are controlled by the same people that control basically the entire world. There may be superficial differences, but nothing of significance ever changes. Divide and conquer is their MO. I wonder if the 2020 obvious steal was engineered in order to cause even more divisions?
I now live in a rural farm area in Nova Scotia, Canada. I spent my previous 65+ years in big cities. I have learned a lot from the locals and have grown to respect them so much for many reasons. The people who are voting for this stuff have no idea what they are doing to your country and mine and are just doing what their TV's tell them makes them good people. They really have zero concept about what supports the lifestyle they enjoy and are either unwittingly, or wittingly, destroying it not only for others but themselves as well.
Build it and they will come and take it from you.
Hence why I suppose my last parting graffiti would’ve been:
“Beware Boobytraps Present”
Haunting and soul crushing. They - the regulatory regime that carries out the designs of the political class - took from those people their way of life. This is always the end state of the looting regime, whether here or in the rust belt towns of the Midwest or inner cities of blue zones. The ranchers could make the short trip to SF and pitch tents in the Tenderloin and be welcomed by the same people who drove them out of their homes and land. Demons.
These people neither know nor care about history, reality or what the results of their narcissistic and sanctimonious actions will be. I’m not going to be here for the worst of it, but I grieve for my grandchildren.
Heart breaking
I have a very clear picture of the people who committed this crime. They were all Tesla drivers--now probably have the 'I bought this before Elon went crazy' bumper sticker. They all have some weird dietary needs...celiac, lactose intolerant, gluten intolerant, veggie, vegan. They stink. They have more money than I'll ever have. They suffer TDS.
The 'men' are low-T, gray-bearded, effeminate pleasers. The women are mostly ugly hags who light up with ferocious self-righteousness when thinking of killing ranchers.
I just despise the Left...in all of its gross permutations.
bsn
One of the plaintiffs at Point Reyes, the Center for Biological Diversity, sponsors the annual Food Justice Film Festival.
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/programs/population_and_sustainability/food-x/food-x-issue-27.html
So yes, exactly.
Food Justice?
I went to their home page and gave it glance-over.
These people, they are the insane.
Yes, people in Mexico not having clean drinking water is a problem, and if CocaCola is cheaper than water that's a problem too - a Mexikan problem. How exactly does not producing dairy and meat in the USA help alleviate that?
And they say not a peep about China's 500 000 vessels strong fishing fleet - 17 000 of said vessels are super-tanker sized monstrosities trawling, scraping the bottom, all over the world giving ero effs to any concerns except meeting the quotas.
That'd be some environmentalism-militarism I'd get behind: NATO-nations utilising their naval assets to keep Chinese kill-the-maritime-ecosystem-fleets confided to around China.
Gah, now I'm so het up I'll have to go outside and chop firewood.
Food Justice. No, this is not a Monty Python skit...I wouldn't last 15 minutes in a room with these people.
bsn
I know you're on a role here, so I ain't gonna interrupt.
You forgot the ubiquitous “Coexist” bumper sticker that seems to come factory installed on all Subarus and Teslas…at least here on the east coast
I hate those ridiculous stickers
Virtue signaling nonsense
Why are you describing one of my neighbours to a T?
The guy is 35, looks older than me*, is stooped/hunched over - if he didn't have a sunken chest he'd have no chest at all, is so henpecked by his Cluster B-wife I almost wrote -pegged instead, and looks like he just got out of a concentration camp: sunken eyes, greying hair and (scraggly) beard, disheveled, has to follow his wife's weird diets (like only eating raw onions, keso, olives and cheese - that's the latest one).
And he works in tech, so she doesn't work at all, including not doing any housework or chores. Every time you think he's had enough and actually grown some balls, she gets him to knock her up again. Four feral kids going on five.
*I'm at that age where you start telling yourself turning sixty in a couple of years isn't any big deal...
Makes me sick every time I think about what they did to those people.
This is so sad. Meanwhile Blue Triton (formerly Nestle) is free to extract and sell water from the San Bernardino National Forest. It's all so enraging.
The boots neatly standing on the porch…that one really got me.
No colorful hot-air balloons overhead to entertain the Sancerre-sipping gentry?
I thought the evictions were for the purpose of creating an idyll-inspiring landscape for our well-bred betters. Have they not returned from Ibiza?
Give it time
Lolol. And exactly
LOL.
It will end in a fire that destroys California. The ranchers on Point Reyes were maintaining the land and preventing fires. With them gone, all bets are off.
Wonder how those grasslands/pasture lands are being managed by the morons who took this land away from generations of ranchers out in Point Reyes? Are they relying on the Tule Elk to do the same kind of job as the cows did?
They're being managed by cattle grazing, but under the supervision of a government-funded NGO instead of ranchers.
https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/california/stories-in-california/point-reyes-grazing/
https://www.nature.org/en-us/about-us/where-we-work/united-states/california/stories-in-california/point-reyes-grazing/
government-funded NGO***
Is there a better definition of an oxymoron?
100%
A jobs program for the ne’er-do-well issue of an effete and dissipated elite huffing the last fumes of noblesse from a greasy paper bag, utterly devoid of oblige.
Quango
Or fraud.
Yes..."Enlightened government."
Nope.
What a bunch of mumbo jumbo from the Nature Conservancy in conjunction with the NPS.
In my entire life of being around the beef industry (my Dad raised pasture cattle in the Imperial Valley) have I never heard of the NPS or The Nature Conservancy being in the cattle business.
Oh I forgot they are seeking persons who are familiar with cattle ranching through these RFP’s, even though they basically threw the people who did know what they were doing off these grazing lands in Pt. Reyes.
I don’t guess those who got rousted could apply for the RFP gig, and go back home?
Not really because the land is no longer their home. They have moved on. I don’t know if any of the displaced ranchers are still around the Pt. Reyes area. Maybe Chris knows?
Easier to skim for the pols and insiders.
And what are they doing with the cattle? Are they growing them to be sold as “grass fed beef”? 🤔😳
The cows are just visiting under short-term contracts, so they'll rotate to their home ranches after a while. They're rent-a-cows.
Good Lord. Rent a cow. Somebody call DOGE.
Like the new Airbnb car rentals in California. https://www.ridester.com/peer-to-peer-car-rental/
wonder how long before Airbnb goes into the underwear business
lol , my son has a conference out there and this is how he’s getting around .
That’s crazy. Wonder the cost effectiveness of that? And the Nature Conservancy and The NPS are “managing”the “rent-a-cow” program? 🤔🙄
Why am I reminded of Victoria Nuland?
So, this is all a performance tragicomedy art show of virtue signaling. Heifers grazing until they are ready to drop their first calves; cows having their regular holidays while being off their milking job; and some castrated beef, veal, or beef/dairy cross male cattle grazing on grass to get to market weight. A whole new s—- ton of driving the bovines to and fro wherever instead of a home-based dairy operation with very few arrivals and departures except one-ways outbound for “harvest” and a few inbounds to improve the herd. Will any NGO staffers who came up with this idea ever muck out barns needed for storms? Or doctor a bovine in an open field in the rain?
Do you think they transport them back and forth in EV tractor-trailers?
They just sprinkle pixie dust, click their heels together and…
This is insulting to all of us, but mainly to the hard working people driven off this land. The ‘NGO’ and the ‘rewilding’ movement don’t want cattle to be recognized as an economically viable or ecologically beneficial food source. So, naturally, they had to kick out the people making a living off of feeding people Possible Burgers and Real Milk.
Look to Ireland.
They got rid of the ranchers cows... to bring in government cows.
At least now the land will be treated with dignity and respect! The elk will frolic and play and everything will trip the light fantastic because the great California government is at work and the unwashed masses are no longer a pock on the landscape!
Until the bobcats and mountain lions attack.
200% insanity.