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Conflict over drought-depleted vegetation in Marin County, California
10/17/2014 2:55:51 PM



CATEGORIES:
Agriculture
Plants & Wildlife
Society & Public Health
AFFECTED AREAS:
Marin County, CA

Start Date: 10/12/2014 -  
Organic dairy ranchers with livestock on agricultural land in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes seashore are frustrated with local tule elk. The ranchers are trying to get authorities to remove the elk and construct a fence to keep them out to prevent the elk from competing with the cattle for grass. After three years of drought, the scarce vegetation is extremely valuable to ranchers who must feed their cattle at least 30 percent foraged material to keep the organic certification. The Marin County agricultural commissioner has urged the Park Service to capture and relocate the 76 elk and fence them off the agricultural land, but to no avail. seattlepi.com (Wash.), Oct. 12, 2014
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