Completely agree here. I feel strongly that these episodes are all part of the exact same phenomenon. It's found all over the country, even in brief interpersonal encounters, but it has had a lot of momentum and not a lot of interrogation, and that has allowed it way more runway than it should have gotten. We all need to wake up to this type of scenario and see how it permeates our culture in a really destructive way and start thinking about how to build a better future. I look forward to reading the recommended article.
There's a somewhat similar situation going on in my area, where a coalition of various groups had been working for years on designating chunk of land to be a National Conservation Area. Ranchers, miners, the BLM, Native tribes, environmental organizations were all plugging away at it.
Then last year, all of a sudden there was a push to create a national monument here, with borders that suspiciously resembled the distribution of suspected uranium deposits in the area. None of the locals supported this; the push came from unknown actors and wealthy towns outside of the area. Most of us are convinced that the rush of development that comes with a national monument would sweep away the home-grown culture here and replace it with the generic plastic slop that seems to be taking over the developed world.
As it turns out, the environmental activists had gone behind everyone else's backs to work on the national monument proposal.
The reasoning for the monument proposal never made sense. It seemed clear from the get-go that this was a land grab of some sort, but no one knows the precise motive. (Water? Uranium? Land prices? We can't suss it out.) As of right now, the monument proposal is defeated, but we're expecting another push before too long.
Like my central Florida. What used to be quiet and peaceful has turned into the sprawl of condos owned by people that don’t really live here. And right now, the traffic is nuts. In three months it will go back to some peace and quiet.
Chris I will read the link but had to tell you to introduce yourself to NPS differently. “Hi I’m Chris. From LA. Actually. (Pause for deep breath) Altadena. (Slump shoulders) I’ve come here for some spiritual recovery time. (Sigh. Wipe eyes) Could you spare me some of your time? It’s been a—difficult—time for me. (Weakly smile)”
"Now, the Point Reyes ranchlands are slated for a new “Scenic Landscape Zone”—precisely the sort of unpeopled vista Nancy Lunny believes the park service is after. “They want this human-less landscape,” she said, “and that nature be viewed from a distance.” What a dismal prospect, I suspect this is being repeated not just around America but in many other countries. It is nothing but an anti human agenda. The Lunny family fought very hard, it is utterly depressing to read.
This story is so important for the whole country, as you indicated Chris. If ridiculous idealism can take the livelihoods of ranchers in California, no farmer anywhere is out of reach. This is about food and survival.
“Idealists” are people like Jefferson, Franklin & Madison who believed principled gentlemen would debate issues on their merits. (Insert laughter here)
These people are like the Harpies in “Jason & the Argonauts,” which swoop down to steal the dinner & drink, and otherwise harass the blind prophet Phineas, who had displeased the gods.
In the modern day, the role of Phineas is played by all landowners cursed by the gods with more than 1/10th inch of rain. And the roles of the “gods” are played by latter day Medusas resident along the Upper Atlantic coastline (green money if I’ve been too obscure).
“…I see that those posts have received a lot less attention and enthusiasm than most of what I write…”
Perhaps because the legal environment surrounding “the environment” has been exploded and a plaintiff doesn’t need to have “suffered harm.” The Visigoths have sacked Rome.
I didn’t realize I had an enrichment scheme at hand when I’d call my neighbor at 10pm (after taking the dogs out) to let him know one of his cows had gotten loose again. Damn!
Great, terrible, story. It is just more of the same, an overbearing government that loves itself and hates its subjects. We are the carbon they wish to eliminate and we best not forget it.
This, like all the others, will turn into an expensive disaster. Real communities will be destroyed which can't be rebuilt. Culture will be coursened. For those who believe in fantasy, nothing is impossible for the Agencies. We pay...
We're forcing 5th generation ranchers off their land to contract with a left-wing NGO who will graze the land? What the heck!
Anyone have the ear of the President? I know he's busy, but this is the sort of stupid stuff he would love to fix instantly. Just order the NPS to terminate the settlement before it goes into effect.
I just want to have it said I for one find the reporting you're doing on this plenty interesting, even if it's happening on the opposite side of the planet from where I'm at.
The issue is universal: the hi-jacking of public works, agencies and what not for purposes they weren't intended for in the slightest, using whatever current hot-button issue at hand as rationalisation and leverage.
I see it as a test of character ranging from the individual scale to the civilisational. What is there, that we (anyone of us) would not do to get our way?
1) In 1870, Standard Oil (now Exxon) built a refinery in Cleveland, Ohio and began dumping refined petroleum waste products into the Cuyahoga River. Over the decades, the river caught fire 7 times, with the last time burning a railroad bridge completely in 1970. As a teenage resident of the Cleveland area, this struck me as just a normal business day (😂), although 1/4 of Lake Erie being dead did strike me as over the top.
2) 99 years earlier (in 1771), Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the Los Angeles area. Had he not done so, the LA area and the nearby San Fernando Valley would not have become the auto exhaust collection pit of the world.
Had these 2 incidents of latent pollution not occurred (one overt and the other an example of piss poor prior planning preventing proper performance), the accumulated wealth of America’s first raiders might still be employed productively, and not being used for emotional masturbation.
I would also obliquely a# Gerry Rivera's report on psychiatric hospitals in the early 1970s which for intended purpose, killed that industry ans let the freaks go free to breed amd some even to breed and prosper.
For every benevolent Asperger’s patient like Michael Burry (protagonist in the “Big Short”), there’s 100,000 criminally insane populating the management ranks of our government and political parties motivated by an uncontrollably orgasmic lust for power. People on the Left who in the modern day eschew Hitler not because of evil, but only because he’s unpopular along their route to power.
I'm a small time cattle farmer myself. This hurts my heart. I want there to be some way to keep these farms in business. Surely, some last minute stay can be done. They are throwing away a part of the history of that area. The elk will be fine.
Hi Chris, I used to live in the San Francisco Bay Area before the insanity that is California drove me away. I am very sad to see what is happening at Point Reyes Seashore. The ranchers and their cattle are an important part of the beauty and life of the area. I am. It surprised either. I was there to see the Bodega Bay oyster ban tragedy driven by the same misguided and thoughtless people who don’t understand that human enterprises and “nature” need to exist together. Thank you for writing about this.
I did read your other posts as I usually don’t miss too many. Although I don’t think I commented…
It’s a very sad outcome for all involved but not unusual as similar circumstances have occurred across the country and across the decades. Sierra Club, Ducks Unlimited, and the others in “conservancy” arena are at the core climate nuts, woke, and liberal. Their agendas seem pure on the surface but they follow the same ideologies as the “Biden” administration and prior nefarious administrations line of thinking. Never is it really about saving an owl or a tiny fish.
The “re-wilding” of swaths of land sounds flowery and beautiful but it typically is leaving the land unattended, unmanaged, and it has bred forest fires of epic proportions (well prior to the current ones) in the PNW and other areas. Lack of land management also causes an imbalance in food supplies for wildlife which causes agonizing deaths by starvation and an unstable increase of apex predators.
Up until the most recent decades, land was managed in a variety of ways through logging, responsible forestry, prescribed burns, setting logical hunting quotas for animal management. This is what the stewards of the land did and it worked for decades. What has been transpiring is the fulfillment over time of Agenda 2030.
Unfortunately for California, there seems to be little chance of escaping the libtards that rule the government. Same goes for the PNW. My heart breaks for all, humans and nature alike, who have been affected by a Cabal that until very recently has been mostly working invisibly and anonymously to get to the place we find ourselves.
My prayers are that the California fires are a giant wake up call to all who have been impacted and will mobilize to fight back for sanity in all quarters.
I understand your sentiment as well as Chris', but are there no sane men willing to die on their sword to curb this insanity alive there anymore? I do not have a lot of empathy for anyone on any given day, but the states which make up our western coast aren't worth giving any empathy for whatsoever any longer. I mean it doesn't take much to herd those cats as they (I'm talking the government and bureaucratic parasites who rule and rile out that way) as they are cowardly scaredy cats and some man might be inclined to give one of them a very public administration of thought correction. Especially if one's livelihood or land is at stake. Or land willed to you to manage for a long forgotten family yet not deeded. Or perhaps a few like minded fellows could force correction by removing some politically weighted carbon with explanations given to a friendly local press titter. Lead and brass aren't cheap folks. Not one bit. They act as such because the fear no reprisal. Maybe it's time that line of thinking is what's actually needed. It's already being spoken in quiet tones where I am which surprised the hell out of me and it wasn't regarding those of different ideological thinking either.
Just something to ponder amongst yourselves. We coming down to the wire and I must admit it sickens me that with every passing day logical thinking over what pushes society forward is becoming grossly illogical, dangerous and downright stupid to keep following rhe same paths that have been trod before. What are we afraid of?
You sound like me here in Florida. There isn’t any alarm in anyone. They are half asleep. So they will never get more than one or two of us crazies to put up the gunfight this desperately needed. These people weren’t about to state the mantra, you can have my land when you haul me off in a box. Those folks been working that land for over century, it belongs to them. Fuck these people that think somehow their idyllic scenery can only be had by fucking ten families to death.
I hate sad stories and this one is very sad, both from the human cost of people forced to leave their beloved homes to the cultural cost of the American way of life slowly withering and dying on the alter of “environmentalism”.
It’s very interesting to me that people can’t stand to see a cow in pristine nature, but I don’t hear these same environmentalists screaming about being forced to look at gigantic, monstrosities that are windmills and solar farms and the environmental carnage being wrought, from killing whales to skewering birds and who knows what else. I would have more respect for them if they fought against those things as well but they apparently suffer from some type of cognitive dissonance related to the environmental impact their climate change agenda is wreaking.
What is happening to them does not surprise me at all. And the comment about a wild fire is probably true. Just give it a few years for the brush to take over. BTW a cow man from Texas like I used to be would never throw calf fries over the fence.
So true about the ‘calf fries’. My Dad ran pasture cattle in the SE corner of California. We called them ‘Rocky Mountain Oysters’. They were Dee-lish! But in West Marin County that may not be the case!
Wow, just wow. Real reporting, a worthy story and family narrative.
This is what has come to pass in many places. The Oregon wildfires in 2020 on the McKenzie River devastated around 450 homes. Many people couldn’t afford to rebuild and after the allowed time to rebuild, many are forced out by River Keepers and other environmental groups because the current laws (pushed into place by the environmental lobby) say it’s not environmentally possible to rebuild.
Chris, I ALWAYS (shouting) enjoy your posts, and the Point Reyes ones are no exception. Keep up the good fight.
John Lucas (Bravo Blue)
Completely agree here. I feel strongly that these episodes are all part of the exact same phenomenon. It's found all over the country, even in brief interpersonal encounters, but it has had a lot of momentum and not a lot of interrogation, and that has allowed it way more runway than it should have gotten. We all need to wake up to this type of scenario and see how it permeates our culture in a really destructive way and start thinking about how to build a better future. I look forward to reading the recommended article.
There's a somewhat similar situation going on in my area, where a coalition of various groups had been working for years on designating chunk of land to be a National Conservation Area. Ranchers, miners, the BLM, Native tribes, environmental organizations were all plugging away at it.
Then last year, all of a sudden there was a push to create a national monument here, with borders that suspiciously resembled the distribution of suspected uranium deposits in the area. None of the locals supported this; the push came from unknown actors and wealthy towns outside of the area. Most of us are convinced that the rush of development that comes with a national monument would sweep away the home-grown culture here and replace it with the generic plastic slop that seems to be taking over the developed world.
As it turns out, the environmental activists had gone behind everyone else's backs to work on the national monument proposal.
The reasoning for the monument proposal never made sense. It seemed clear from the get-go that this was a land grab of some sort, but no one knows the precise motive. (Water? Uranium? Land prices? We can't suss it out.) As of right now, the monument proposal is defeated, but we're expecting another push before too long.
"...sweep away the home-grown culture here and replace it with the generic plastic slop that seems to be taking over the developed world."
Target.
Like my central Florida. What used to be quiet and peaceful has turned into the sprawl of condos owned by people that don’t really live here. And right now, the traffic is nuts. In three months it will go back to some peace and quiet.
"It seemed clear from the get-go that this was a land grab of some sort . . . " Isn't land grabbing the real business of WEF globalists?
Yes!
I'm curious what state this might be in?
Colorado
Western slope?
Sounds like my neighborhood. I'm in soytheastern Utah.
Please describe where exactly in Colorado?
Well put!
Danny
Chris I will read the link but had to tell you to introduce yourself to NPS differently. “Hi I’m Chris. From LA. Actually. (Pause for deep breath) Altadena. (Slump shoulders) I’ve come here for some spiritual recovery time. (Sigh. Wipe eyes) Could you spare me some of your time? It’s been a—difficult—time for me. (Weakly smile)”
"Now, the Point Reyes ranchlands are slated for a new “Scenic Landscape Zone”—precisely the sort of unpeopled vista Nancy Lunny believes the park service is after. “They want this human-less landscape,” she said, “and that nature be viewed from a distance.” What a dismal prospect, I suspect this is being repeated not just around America but in many other countries. It is nothing but an anti human agenda. The Lunny family fought very hard, it is utterly depressing to read.
but there will be a few people who have access to view it, NPS employees and any of their bosses/friends.
This is so sad. While reading it, I kept wondering when Point Reyes will have a brush fire in the future because all that grazing stopped.
Read the article. They hire contract cattle to graze. No shit.
After they kick the cattle out! Then they...bring in cattle!
Mind: blown
This story is so important for the whole country, as you indicated Chris. If ridiculous idealism can take the livelihoods of ranchers in California, no farmer anywhere is out of reach. This is about food and survival.
“Idealists” are people like Jefferson, Franklin & Madison who believed principled gentlemen would debate issues on their merits. (Insert laughter here)
These people are like the Harpies in “Jason & the Argonauts,” which swoop down to steal the dinner & drink, and otherwise harass the blind prophet Phineas, who had displeased the gods.
In the modern day, the role of Phineas is played by all landowners cursed by the gods with more than 1/10th inch of rain. And the roles of the “gods” are played by latter day Medusas resident along the Upper Atlantic coastline (green money if I’ve been too obscure).
“…I see that those posts have received a lot less attention and enthusiasm than most of what I write…”
Perhaps because the legal environment surrounding “the environment” has been exploded and a plaintiff doesn’t need to have “suffered harm.” The Visigoths have sacked Rome.
They suffered spiritual harm, you monster. Cows! Visual cow presence!
I didn’t realize I had an enrichment scheme at hand when I’d call my neighbor at 10pm (after taking the dogs out) to let him know one of his cows had gotten loose again. Damn!
Just think how much farther along you'd be on your spiritual journey
😂🤣 Real LOL
no doubt farting cows
Great, terrible, story. It is just more of the same, an overbearing government that loves itself and hates its subjects. We are the carbon they wish to eliminate and we best not forget it.
This, like all the others, will turn into an expensive disaster. Real communities will be destroyed which can't be rebuilt. Culture will be coursened. For those who believe in fantasy, nothing is impossible for the Agencies. We pay...
We're forcing 5th generation ranchers off their land to contract with a left-wing NGO who will graze the land? What the heck!
Anyone have the ear of the President? I know he's busy, but this is the sort of stupid stuff he would love to fix instantly. Just order the NPS to terminate the settlement before it goes into effect.
I just want to have it said I for one find the reporting you're doing on this plenty interesting, even if it's happening on the opposite side of the planet from where I'm at.
The issue is universal: the hi-jacking of public works, agencies and what not for purposes they weren't intended for in the slightest, using whatever current hot-button issue at hand as rationalisation and leverage.
I see it as a test of character ranging from the individual scale to the civilisational. What is there, that we (anyone of us) would not do to get our way?
This all got started (in the U.S.) with 2 events:
1) In 1870, Standard Oil (now Exxon) built a refinery in Cleveland, Ohio and began dumping refined petroleum waste products into the Cuyahoga River. Over the decades, the river caught fire 7 times, with the last time burning a railroad bridge completely in 1970. As a teenage resident of the Cleveland area, this struck me as just a normal business day (😂), although 1/4 of Lake Erie being dead did strike me as over the top.
2) 99 years earlier (in 1771), Franciscan friar Junípero Serra directed the building of the Mission San Gabriel Arcángel, the first mission in the Los Angeles area. Had he not done so, the LA area and the nearby San Fernando Valley would not have become the auto exhaust collection pit of the world.
Had these 2 incidents of latent pollution not occurred (one overt and the other an example of piss poor prior planning preventing proper performance), the accumulated wealth of America’s first raiders might still be employed productively, and not being used for emotional masturbation.
I would also obliquely a# Gerry Rivera's report on psychiatric hospitals in the early 1970s which for intended purpose, killed that industry ans let the freaks go free to breed amd some even to breed and prosper.
For every benevolent Asperger’s patient like Michael Burry (protagonist in the “Big Short”), there’s 100,000 criminally insane populating the management ranks of our government and political parties motivated by an uncontrollably orgasmic lust for power. People on the Left who in the modern day eschew Hitler not because of evil, but only because he’s unpopular along their route to power.
Can we do ANYTHING to stop this?
I don't think so, but I'll be there soon and will dig into it.
I'm a small time cattle farmer myself. This hurts my heart. I want there to be some way to keep these farms in business. Surely, some last minute stay can be done. They are throwing away a part of the history of that area. The elk will be fine.
Can we reintroduce wolves to sacramento?
Become a poacher for Los angeles' homeless down on skid row. I'm sure they would like some fancy meat to eat. Elk runs roughly 3-4x the cost of beef.
Hi Chris, I used to live in the San Francisco Bay Area before the insanity that is California drove me away. I am very sad to see what is happening at Point Reyes Seashore. The ranchers and their cattle are an important part of the beauty and life of the area. I am. It surprised either. I was there to see the Bodega Bay oyster ban tragedy driven by the same misguided and thoughtless people who don’t understand that human enterprises and “nature” need to exist together. Thank you for writing about this.
I did read your other posts as I usually don’t miss too many. Although I don’t think I commented…
It’s a very sad outcome for all involved but not unusual as similar circumstances have occurred across the country and across the decades. Sierra Club, Ducks Unlimited, and the others in “conservancy” arena are at the core climate nuts, woke, and liberal. Their agendas seem pure on the surface but they follow the same ideologies as the “Biden” administration and prior nefarious administrations line of thinking. Never is it really about saving an owl or a tiny fish.
The “re-wilding” of swaths of land sounds flowery and beautiful but it typically is leaving the land unattended, unmanaged, and it has bred forest fires of epic proportions (well prior to the current ones) in the PNW and other areas. Lack of land management also causes an imbalance in food supplies for wildlife which causes agonizing deaths by starvation and an unstable increase of apex predators.
Up until the most recent decades, land was managed in a variety of ways through logging, responsible forestry, prescribed burns, setting logical hunting quotas for animal management. This is what the stewards of the land did and it worked for decades. What has been transpiring is the fulfillment over time of Agenda 2030.
Unfortunately for California, there seems to be little chance of escaping the libtards that rule the government. Same goes for the PNW. My heart breaks for all, humans and nature alike, who have been affected by a Cabal that until very recently has been mostly working invisibly and anonymously to get to the place we find ourselves.
My prayers are that the California fires are a giant wake up call to all who have been impacted and will mobilize to fight back for sanity in all quarters.
I understand your sentiment as well as Chris', but are there no sane men willing to die on their sword to curb this insanity alive there anymore? I do not have a lot of empathy for anyone on any given day, but the states which make up our western coast aren't worth giving any empathy for whatsoever any longer. I mean it doesn't take much to herd those cats as they (I'm talking the government and bureaucratic parasites who rule and rile out that way) as they are cowardly scaredy cats and some man might be inclined to give one of them a very public administration of thought correction. Especially if one's livelihood or land is at stake. Or land willed to you to manage for a long forgotten family yet not deeded. Or perhaps a few like minded fellows could force correction by removing some politically weighted carbon with explanations given to a friendly local press titter. Lead and brass aren't cheap folks. Not one bit. They act as such because the fear no reprisal. Maybe it's time that line of thinking is what's actually needed. It's already being spoken in quiet tones where I am which surprised the hell out of me and it wasn't regarding those of different ideological thinking either.
Just something to ponder amongst yourselves. We coming down to the wire and I must admit it sickens me that with every passing day logical thinking over what pushes society forward is becoming grossly illogical, dangerous and downright stupid to keep following rhe same paths that have been trod before. What are we afraid of?
You sound like me here in Florida. There isn’t any alarm in anyone. They are half asleep. So they will never get more than one or two of us crazies to put up the gunfight this desperately needed. These people weren’t about to state the mantra, you can have my land when you haul me off in a box. Those folks been working that land for over century, it belongs to them. Fuck these people that think somehow their idyllic scenery can only be had by fucking ten families to death.
I hate sad stories and this one is very sad, both from the human cost of people forced to leave their beloved homes to the cultural cost of the American way of life slowly withering and dying on the alter of “environmentalism”.
It’s very interesting to me that people can’t stand to see a cow in pristine nature, but I don’t hear these same environmentalists screaming about being forced to look at gigantic, monstrosities that are windmills and solar farms and the environmental carnage being wrought, from killing whales to skewering birds and who knows what else. I would have more respect for them if they fought against those things as well but they apparently suffer from some type of cognitive dissonance related to the environmental impact their climate change agenda is wreaking.
What is happening to them does not surprise me at all. And the comment about a wild fire is probably true. Just give it a few years for the brush to take over. BTW a cow man from Texas like I used to be would never throw calf fries over the fence.
So true about the ‘calf fries’. My Dad ran pasture cattle in the SE corner of California. We called them ‘Rocky Mountain Oysters’. They were Dee-lish! But in West Marin County that may not be the case!
I’ll bet they taste the same in Marin County. 😆
They are good. I've only had hog, but I'm sure they're the same. Sweet Breads here.
Wow, just wow. Real reporting, a worthy story and family narrative.
This is what has come to pass in many places. The Oregon wildfires in 2020 on the McKenzie River devastated around 450 homes. Many people couldn’t afford to rebuild and after the allowed time to rebuild, many are forced out by River Keepers and other environmental groups because the current laws (pushed into place by the environmental lobby) say it’s not environmentally possible to rebuild.
That's disgusting. 🤬