Just hours after the National Park Service began dismantling a fence that has confined hundreds of tule elk to the northernmost tip of Point Reyes National Seashore for nearly 50 years, a ranchers association filed a lawsuit seeking to halt the process.
The park service announced its final plan to remove the 2.2-mile boundary on Monday, a decision lauded by environmental activists and condemned by ranchers who contend that the large ungulates damage their infrastructure…