A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by animal rights advocates who claimed that mismanagement by the National Park Service was causing the fenced tule elk at Tomales Point to die of thirst and starvation.
The plaintiffs argued that the park had failed to protect the herd by neglecting to adequately update the Point Reyes National Seashore’s 1980 general management plan. The plan requires containing the herd within a three-mile-long fence to keep them…