The Nature Conservancy, which has been increasingly exposed for lining the pockets of ranchers rather than actually helping nature, gave a webinar August 12th, 2026, which revealed what many feared.  There was no inclusion of nature in their so-called restoration plan for Point Reyes National Seashore.  The entire webinar centered around bringing in even more cattle (in addition to cattle still grazing from the south end to the north end of the park.).  Even if you are a supporter of cattle grazing, one should be very concerned that cattle grazing is their entire plan.  How about a few other ideas?  Perhaps engage in other forms of restoration in addition to the absurd cattle grazing plan.  
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Laura Cunningham, of The Western Watershed Project, will be joining my podcast on Tuesday August 12th to give a rundown of the many flaws she noticed in TNC's presentation.  Below is the link to be notified for the live show. ​

For the last year the rancher-influenced media outlets have repeatedly stated that ranching families were “evicted” and that elk are now roaming free. People being evicted aren’t usually paid, much less paid millions. This was a voluntary exit by some ranchers and the fact that it was only some and not those who CHOSE to stay proves that the use of the word evicted is dishonest and inaccurate and yet the word is used repeatedly by so-called professional journalists. The reality is that ranching still remains in the seashore and cattle can be seen from the north end to the south end. Meanwhile, elk and other wildlife are still restricted by the 100s of miles of rancher barbed-wire fencing that has not been taken down and 90% of the elk fence itself is still up.
What else remains true is that the most degraded land is ranch land or former ranch land. These areas host both the greatest number of species and greatest density of invasive plants, including, but not limited to the annual fire fuel weeds that ranchers claim the cattle are required to combat. The ranch residences and barn structures continue to be a testament that even where rancher workers resided, no one did anything to stop invasive plants or promote positive vegetation, much less there be a need to go examine adjacent g fields grazed by cattle. By contrast, the further one is away from both the ranching structures and the grazed fields, the less invasive fire fuel plants there are.
Even during the decades of active ranching, strips of native plant vegetation between the ranch parcels where cattle weren’t allowed continue to be the only healthy native plant and naturally fire-resistant vegetation in the seashore, along with the elk reserve. But we also have all the ranch lands outside the seashore serving as examples…one does not need to enter Point Reyes to already be exposed to a never-ending visual testament that ranch lands are either dead or full of fire fuel grasses and thistles, while the “un-ranched” lands are the healthiest, greenest, and most likely to resist fire.
If the TNC and ranchers want to demonstrate the effectiveness of targeted grazing in restoring native plant life and reducing annual fire fuel plants, they can do this outside the seashore. The public does not need to give up THEIR national park to pretend to demonstrate something that has failed to be demonstrated anywhere ever. The land, anxious for a chance to heal itself, does not need to be hindered from recovery due to this farce of regenerative grazing. The wildlife need not continue to suffer so that the pockets of ranchers continue to be lined while the public are fed a never ending buffet of lies and propaganda from the very same people financially benefitting from the spread of these lies.
This playlist is an entire day of documentation (July 16th 2026) and is one of many playlists available. The video below is the first of the 7-16-26 documentation vidieos.
Stop listening to rancher propaganda and LOOK AT THE PROOF in front of you. ​

Below is a short rant I recorded expressing frustration at the complete nonsense the Point Reyes Light is getting away with (members only)

Below is a much longer video, our live show, discussing the same Point Reyes Light article. 

Sasha Gennet is a fake scientist, a sellout, an embarrassment to the scientific community

For those who want to read the full article, please click this link. 
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Introducing 'Truth Trips', a series of funding campaigns to debunk ranch propaganda first hand.  The ask is simple, help cover travel expenses and compensate to the time spent filming, editing, and fact-checking the relentless lies being fed to the public. 

Campaign one seeks to document the state of each ranch in Point Reyes as they currently exist in order to counter future lies about why the ranchers were needed.  

​I'd like to thank Karin P. Lease for being the first to donate to this campaign!  Thank you!

Below is the tax deductible donation link.  Other ways to support are by joining the associated Patreon or by using PayPal to donate.  

Today, when the discussion of helping the ranch workers affected by the ranch closures came up, a new question occurred to me; "Why don't people who worked for 30 years have any unemployment benefits?"

The millionaire ranchers themselves gave as little as possible to these ranch workers and part of giving as little as possible included lowering their wages by negotiating housing into the amount.
The crazy thing is that we, the taxpayers, essentially provide that housing since the ranchers pay a criminally low lease rate. Consider that McClure Ranch is the size of Golden Gate Park and is leased out for $3,500 a month. Yes, all of it. That includes the structures on it, some of which are housing structures. The main residence is over 3,000 square feet...that alone would demand a monthly rent of $12,000 in San Francisco.

Now add in the rest of the residences and thousands of acres of land and you begin to understand the absurdity of the finances in Point Reyes.

So, the employees of these ranchers who were enjoying "sweetheart lease deals" still found ways to screw over their employees.
Why haven't I head about severance packages? Where are the rancher-provided 401K plans? Where are the unemployment benefits?

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Dating back to when Point Reyes National Seashore was first proposed the ranchers have claimed that the creation of the park would destroy the local economy and hurt the local food industry. First of all, 50% of Marin County land is used for agriculture, so the peninsula acreage is not necessary. Secondly, the local stores and restaurants are not exclusively selling locally produced food. In fact, it is hard to find anything in the stores that can be confirmed to be directly produced from the agriculture in Point Reyes National Seashore. This video focuses on Inverness Park Market, but the documentation does not stop there.

The two latest short form videos from Skyler Thomas on the Watching Humans YouTube channel directly contradict Kevin Lunny's most recent pile of propaganda.  

While Trump Dump supporters don't care about the truth, history, reality, or democracy, the facts remain that we have the original legislation as well as 'An Administrative History of Point Reyes' to show us the light.  The only question is if we're willing to look.

"My wealthy employer has paid me below minimum wage since 1991, therefore the National Park Service, aka the American taxpayer, now owes me housing."  

Care to listen to the rant instead of read? Click here.

Is this really how Margarito Loza's mind works, or has he been brainwashed by Andrew Giacomini in combination with years of being exposed to the 'victimhood mindset' of the Point Reyes Ranchers?

In a recent article from the Press Democrat one of the ranch employees that Andrew Giacomini talked into being a plaintiff in his case to disrupt the progress toward saving Point Reyes National Seashore spoke of his struggles as a low income worker who now faces the possibility of trying to find new housing.

It's fascinating just how much the people of Point Reyes think they are owed, from the planet-killing multimillionaire ranchers at the top right down to their undocumented labor force at the bottom.  I say fascinated, but not surprising.  We've reached the point in victimhood society that even people who are working illegally in this country are making demands.  It was only a few years ago that these people wanted to hide their faces in fear of deportation and retaliation from the ranchers.  Now, a ranch-family lawyer has convinced them to show their faces and sue the national park with the idea that they are owed housing. 

Let's go step by step though this lunacy:

1. I'd like to know why the ranchers are once again escaping without accountability.  Somehow this lawsuit looks right past the millionaire empire families who, as the plaintiff said himself, have been paying their workers poverty level wages.  Now these ranchers are about to be paid $40,000,000.00 again yet their snubbed employees think the park service should be sued and not their dynastically wealthy former employers.  Nice to know that even the poor and exploited still think the rich need more breaks.  If this is the intelligence level of the American voter we now know how Trump got back in the office.

2. What are some other examples of when a private business shuts down it falls upon the taxpayer to provided homes for those who are about to lose their jobs?  I've lived through multiple layoffs and no one ever offered me housing to assist with the hardships ahead.  Are these particular people owed housing because they were exploited by their employers?  If so, this sends the message that the less successful you are the more you are owed.  Shame on me for getting all those college degrees.  All I really needed to do was help ranchers get rich by being a participant in the cruel treatment of animals and the murder of the planet.  Heck, in addition to ocean side housing in California, let's give these wonderfully poor ranch workers $50,000.00 bonuses for being participants in the destruction of the park all these years.

3. What's Andrew Giacomini's real angle?  The Giacomini Dairy Empire has a bigger story to play in the suspiciousness of Andrew's lawsuit.  Where was he the past thirty years when the poor treatment of these people was going on in Point Reyes?

4. I've personally been done with the human sympathy card for a long time.  We are a species that declares supremacy and superior intelligence when it's convenience then suddenly becomes helpless and stupid when it comes time for pity.  I'd like to know how Mr. Loza wasn't able to devise a better long-term plan for his family in the three plus decades he's been working in Point Reyes.   Doesn't sound superior or intelligent to me.  Or is it because he lived in fear of seeking a better life for himself and his family while being an employee of the Spaeletta Ranch Family?  If it's the latter, once again, perhaps you should be suing the rich people who treated you that way rather than suing the park service. 

5. So this is where we are now...a world where I am harshly criticizing poor people who need housing and a better life.  I guess it's one of the goals of the ranchers...keep us fighting amongst ourselves while the ranchers themselves walk away with millions yet again.

Maybe I'm being harsh.  Or maybe these farm workers should wake up to who the enemy is.
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