LA Times exclusive: Conservationists fear another elk die-off due to fence, drought

In response to reports of tule elk dying amid an ongoing drought, the Center for Biological Diversity and Harvard Animal Law & Policy Clinic today demanded that the National Park Service remove a fence from Tomales Point in northern Point Reyes National Seashore that confines elk on a peninsula with inadequate water.

Animal Law & Policy Clinic Director Katherine Meyer is quoted in a Los Angeles Times exclusive. “Unlike the privately owned cattle that have unrestrained access to water sources in this area, the elk are protected by federal law that requires the Park Service to ‘conserve’ them for the public and future generations,” she said. “They should not be denied access to the water they need to survive.”

Read our letter to the National Park Service.