The NPS projects sea levels to rise by 3 feet by the year 2100 at Point Reyes National Seashore, while allowing some 5,000 cattle to feed off the park. The cattle are by far the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions at the seashore, more than that of the cars that deliver more than 2.5 million visitors to the park every year.
Over the objections of tens of thousands of Americans, the National Park Service and the Department of the Interior have rededicated 28,000 acres of national park land to the use and benefit of an entitled few, who were paid the equivalent of $380 million when they sold their land to the Park Service 50 years ago, and through political maneuvers continue to run cattle in the seashore. It’s not clear what the public gets out of the latest deal that the Park Service struck that keeps two dozen wealthy ranchers on the seashore for decades to come.
