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U.S. national parks have started annual closures of select roads and various park areas to protect wildlife during their mating seasons.

Jump to navigation By  08/04/2021 A federal judge denied an injunction against the National Park Service filed by animal rights groups who are suing over the management of tule elk in the Point Reyes National Seashore. After a hearing last week, Judge Haywood Gilliam of the Northern District of California ruled that the Harvard Animal Law and Policy Clinic did not adequately show that the park is neglecting its duty to prevent the fenced Tomales Point herd from dying of thirst or malnutrition. “It is fully within your authority to ensure that the elk survive long enough for us to a...

Jump to navigation By  06/16/2021 For the first time ever, the Point Reyes National Seashore is providing supplemental water to the fenced tule elk herd on Tomales Point. The park announced last week that it had installed three 250-gallon troughs at the south end of the reserve that will remain there at least until the winter rains. Dave Press, the park’s wildlife ecologist, said there are still natural water sources for the herd, and that the move was made out of “an abundance of caution.” A tule elk requires five to eight gallons of water a day, moisture it finds in natural s...