Point Reyes National Seashore in California was established as a national park in 1962. The government paid $50 million to purchase the land from farming and ranching families, allowing those that signed lease agreements to graze cattle on park land for 25 years.
However, conflict has arisen because two herds of tule elk, who are native to California and were reintroduced to the park in the 1970s after previously being killed off there, also graze there. The National Park Service (NPS) is considering several solutions to resolve this problem. Its preferred option, dubbed Alternative B, involves killing some of the elk and offering another 20-year lease agreement to the farming and ranching families. The lessees would be allotted over 26,000 acres and allowed to maintain over 5,500 cows! Meanwhile, the Drakes Beach elk herd’s population, which numbered a mere 124 animals in 2018, would be limited to 120…
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