Ask National Park Service to Halt Plans to Kill Point Reyes Deer

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Ask National Park Service to Halt Plans to Kill Point Reyes Deer

 

The National Park Service (NPS) are currently advancing a plan to

exterminate the beautiful fallow and axis deer at Point Reyes National

Seashore. They are scheduled to release their final plan this winter. The

NPS has failed to show evidence that the deer are having a negative impact

on the park. Any claimed impacts are minor or speculative. As there is no

crisis, the park has the luxury of time to implement a humane management

program by using wildlife contraception, which has been used successfully on

deer nationally and on elk living right at the seashore.

 

 

 

These deer are creatures of rare beauty and have resided in Point Reyes

since 1948, brought in for hunting before the area became a national park. A

deadly hunt that will needlessly kill these unique animals must not be

allowed to take place in a wildlife refuge like Point Reyes. The exotic deer

are in the park because of human intervention, so the NPS has an ethical

obligation to exhaust all non-lethal methods before resorting to violence.

 

 

 

What You Can Do

 

 

 

Please click here <http://ga0.org/campaign/ptreyesdeer/wiknexs495ikkt7?> to

urge NPS Regional Director Jon Jarvis to implement a humane, non-lethal

method of controlling the exotic deer population at Point Reyes National

Seashore. To have a greater impact, also use the information below to

contact Mr. Jarvis by phone, fax, postal mail and personal email.

 

 

 

Jon Jarvis

Regional Director

Pacific West Region

National Park Service

One Jackson Center

1111 Jackson Street, Suite 700

Oakland, CA 95607

(510) 817-1304

<jon_jarvis jon_jarvis

 

 

 

For further information on what you can do to help the deer, please visit

www.saveptreyesdeer.org <http://www.saveptreyesdeer.org/> or contact Karen

Steele at In Defense of Animals on (415) 388 9641 or at karen.