White Buffalo, Inc. Begins Killing Point Reyes Deer
News from Friends of the White Deer | August 8, 2007
As of August 2007, the Point Reyes National Seashore Park Service has brought
in White Buffalo, Inc. gunmen to shoot fallow and axis does. Thousands of fawns
will now begin to die of starvation.
The helicopters have been spotted and does are appearing throughout the Point
Reyes National Seashore with ear tags and radio collars. The killings are being
kept secret from the public, but West Marin locals know that if the slaughter of
the fallow and axis deer has not yet begun, we are only days away now from the
first killings.
On July 17th, U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey faxed a letter to Park
Superintendant Don Neubacher, requesting that the slaughter of the deer be postponed
in order to give her office the necessary time to fully investigate the ecological
impact of the deer and to be able to develop a plan in concert with the Park for
humane management. On the very next day, Superintendant Neubacher publicly announced
his intention to exterminate the deer, in direct opposition to U.S. Representative
Woolsey's request.
The park has contracted with extremist animal exterminators White Buffalo, Inc.
of Connecticut to kill a reported 1,000 fallow and axis does over the next three
summers. The gunmen have arrived in West Marin with an arsenal of 13 different kinds
of weapons and are already ear tagging and collaring deer in order to track and
annihilate them.
Outraged locals are attempting to call attention to the fact that the quote of
1,000 does completely bypasses all of the deaths of the thousands of fawns who
will die of starvation once their mothers have been massacred. Orphaned fawns who
are still dependent upon their mothers for food or who have not yet learned to
find food for themselves will be left to a slow and inhumane death by starvation.
The Friends of the White Deer, The Marin Humane Society, In Defense of Animals,
and WildCare are appalled by the cold and calculated cruelty of the Park's plan to
kill the mother animals, creating a bloodbath in the Park and orphaning thousands
of defenseless fawns.
In 2005, S.H.A.R.K., an organization dedicated to uncovering animal abuse,
filmed White Buffalo, Inc.'s so-called 'humane' killings of a group of deer.
The following is a description of the film taken from the website of
the Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting:
"...White Buffalo shooting deer and then placing plastic bags over their
heads to suffocate them when the bullets didn’t do the job. The rocket nets and
captive bolt came next. The steel spike kept missing their targets and connected
in their eyes, ears, etc. as they thrashed about. When the volume was turned up you
could hear their screaming."
From Deer Alliance.org,
we receive the following description of White Buffalo's procedures:
"White Buffalo will bait deer, trap them in a net, and then kill them with a captive bolt
(the same instrument used in slaughterhouses). A video taken in Illinois shows
netted deer wildly struggling to escape. Then a person sits on a deer, another
holds her head, and a third fires a 4-inch captive bolt into her brain. While each
deer is being wrestled and killed, the others frantically continue to struggle as
they watch and hear their companions dying, only to await the same fate."
For further details on the documented procedures and animal abuse committed by
White Buffalo, Inc., please visit:
When you take the time to begin reading articles like the above, written in
the states across the U.S. where White Buffalo, Inc. has been brought in to
exterminate deer, the patterns of media spins and motivations begin to emerge.
What is happening in Point Reyes is almost identical to what has happened in
Ohio, in Connecticut, in New Jersey.
It is the policy of both the Point Reyes National Seashore and White Buffalo, Inc.
to keep times and locations of killings a secret from the public in order to prevent
peaceful protest or demonstrations of outrage. According to the Marin Humane Society,
if any individual did to an animal, off government land, what these gunmen will do
to the fallow and axis does, the individual would be arrested and charged with
crimes of animal abuse.
Superintendant Don Neubacher has summarily dismissed the concerns and requests
of local people, world-famous biologist Jane Goodall, and U.S. Representative Lynn
Woolsey. He has sent a very clear message that the Point Reyes National Seashore
does not belong to the animals that inhabit it, or to the people who visit it.
While he remains in charge, the entire Point Reyes National Seashore belongs to
Superintendant Neubacher.
The inhumane slaughter has begun, but we will not stop fighting Superintendant
Neubacher's despotic decision-making. Though the Friends of the White Deer have
failed to attain a preemptive moratorium on the killings, we will continue to
plan and promote awareness of what is happening at our local seashore. We will not
lose hope that future shootings may be stopped.
The Friends of the White Deer urge any individual who is opposed to the inhumane
slaughter of wild animals to take action. The Friends of the White Deer urge any
individual who is opposed to public lands being governed without concern for
public consensus of opinion to take action. Please contact any of the following
sources to make your opinion known:
Superintendent Don Neubacher
Point Reyes National Seashore
Point Reyes, CA 94956
ATTN: Non-native deer management plan
Or email: don_neubacher@nps.gov
Jon Jarvis
Pacific West Regional Director, NPS
(510) 817-1304 phone
Or email: jon_jarvis@nps.gov
Senator Barbara Boxer
United States Senate
1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 240
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 403-0100 phone
(415) 956-6701 fax
Senator Dianne Feinstein
United States Senate
One Post Street, Suite 2450
San Francisco, CA 94104
(415) 393-0707 phone
(415) 393-0710 fax
U.S. Representative Lynn Woolsey
Marin County Office:
1050 Northgate Drive, Suite 354
San Rafael, CA 94903
(415) 507-9554 phone
(415) 507-9601 fax
California Assemblymember Joe Nation
Marin County Office:
3501 Civic Center Drive, Room 412
San Rafael, CA 94903
Phone: (415) 479-4920
Fax: (415) 479-2123
Write a letter to the editor of the following newspapers:
Letter to the Editor
San Francisco Chronicle
901 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Fax: (415) 543-7708
Email: letters@sfchronicle.com
Letter to the Editor
Point Reyes Light
Box 210
Point Reyes Station, CA 94956
Fax: (415) 663-8458
Email: editor@ptreyeslight.com
Letter to the Editor
Marin Independent Journal
PO Box 6150
Novato, CA 94948-6150
Fax: (415) 883-5458
Email: letters@marinij.com
Letter to the Editor
Coastal Post
PO Box 31
Bolinas, CA 94924
Email: editor@coastalpost.com
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