The National Park Service has opened a final public comment period for its proposal to dismantle the Tule Elk Reserve’s deadly 3-mile-long fence at Point Reyes National Seashore in California. You can help free the Tule elk by participating right now.
Tule elk are members of a very rare, endemic species who were almost hunted to extinction. Right now, there are about 315 elk inside the fenced Reserve, the largest of three Tule elk herds at Point Reyes.
Confinement has killed over 475 of these gentle elk over the last decade. Many elk have died horrible, drawn-out deaths from starvation and thirst because they couldn’t access food and water.
After decades of animal suffering and years of campaigning by In Defense of Animals and other elktivists, the National Park Service (NPS) has finally proposed removing the fence.
With your help, Tule elk could be liberated from their enclosure to roam freely across more of the park’s 71,000 acres. It will increase their access to food, water, and more natural breeding, giving elk a wilder, healthier life.
In Defense of Animals is calling for all elk and wild animal fans to participate in this pivotal, historic process to end a 45-year-old policy of lethally confining the Tule elk at Point Reyes.
Public comments are crucial in driving the ecological restoration of this National Seashore, which is still being heavily damaged by pollution from private cattle businesses.