September 30, 2021 Clinic Tribe pays for mineral licks, elk troughs
Jack Gescheidt, a vocal elk advocate and plaintiff in the Harvard lawsuit, said he thought the park’s actions were contradictory. The mineral blocks are consistent with the park’s finding that the elk had died from malnutrition, he said, but the water troughs are not. He speculated that the park was making its decisions based on public pressure, rather than science, and said the only long-term fix would be to let the elk roam the entire peninsula. “All of these actions are Band-Aids,” he said. “The wound is the fence.”
August 31, 2021 Clinic Dying Tule Elk: Volunteers Tote Water To Increase Drinking Supply
In June, the Harvard Law School Animal Law & Policy Clinic filed a lawsuit saying the National Park Service is being negligent by keeping the Tomales Point elk in an enclosure.
August 30, 2021 Clinic Volunteers carry water for miles to help tule elk dying in Point Reyes drought conditions
Saturday afternoon, nearly a hundred people carried water three miles to a pond that is on the verge of drying up.
