The lawsuit over the Point Reyes National Seashore’s management of tule elk failed, showing that anti-ranchers’ effort to conscript elk into their army to wage war on ranching lacks a legal basis. In that effort, anti-ranchers have engaged in an aggressive pattern of disinformation to manufacture a scientific basis for their war. But disinformation is neither law nor science, so next to fail will be the appeal.
All good disinformation campaigns contain a…