The National Park Service has been sued over its handling of the fenced tule elk herd on Tomales Point. The lawsuit, filed by the Harvard Law School’s Animal Law and Policy Clinic, alleges the park has failed to protect the animals from “horrific and preventable deaths,” allowing them to starve and die of thirst behind the elk fence.
“It’s not just a matter of being inhumane,” said Kate Barnekow, an attorney from the Harvard law…