1. The 45 day for the public to state your choice as to the future of the Drakes Beach Tule Elk ends on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2019 at 11:59 PM MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME. 
2. There is a draft Environmental Impact Statement (E.I.S.) for general management plan amendment (G.M.P.) for Point Reyes National Seashore and the north district of Golden Gate National Recreation Area in California.
3. This is for the National Park Service (N.P.S.) to update management guidance for more than 28,000 acres of national park system lands, including all lands currently leased for beef and dairy ranching. 
4. E.I.S. addresses the future management of leased ranch lands and Tule elk in the planning area by offering 6 alternatives:
• Alternative A:  "No Action" - Which means: "N.P.S. would issue new lease/permits to the existing ranch families to continue beef and dairy operations on approximately 27,000 acres with terms of 5 or 10 years and updated provisions to reflect current operations and regulatory requirements." .... "Under alternative A, actions to reduce the impacts of elk presence on ranches would continue to include hazing, habitat enhancements, and fence repairs. Alternative A would not alter or limit the population level or geographic extent of elk in Point Reyes. NPS would recapture and move or lethally remove any elk that leave Point Reyes or Golden Gate lands or non-federal lands, in collaboration with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (C.D.F.W.). "
• Alternative B:  N.P.S. would cap the Drakes Beach Tule Elk population at 120 (there are as last counted 124). "N.P.S. would manage to the population threshold using lethal removal methods." No other Elk herds will be allowed to be "established" - live, procreate, or feed there.  N.P.S. estimation is that 10-15 elk would be killed per year.
• Alternative C:  The 1980 G.M.P. adopts the same programmatic guidance and a Ranchland zone as presented in alternative B. Makes the Drakes Beach Tule Elk Herd extinct; entire 124 approximate population  "using agency-managed, contractor-led lethal removal methods." No new or other elk herds would be allowed to "establish" live, procreate, or feed there.
• Alternative D:  removal of 7,500 acres, leaving 19,000 acres of active ranching.  "Ranching, beef cattle animal unit authorizations would be reduced by approximately 700 AUs."  No mention regarding the Drakes Beach Tule Elk Herd - so no killings.
• Alternative E:  Cease all dairy farms.  Convert all dairy ranches to beef ranches, replacing 3,130 dairy animals with 750AU of beef cattle.  New herds of Tule Elk will be allowed to continue to live, and regardless of geographic location,  providing, they do not move outside Point Reyes.  N.P.S. management of elk only occurs, "To support other resource protection needs and management goals."
• ALTERNATIVE F:   All ranching operations are discontinued.  Visitor opportunities to be expanded.  All ELK, including free-range elk populations could expand across the entire area.  "N.P.S. would apply a new management zone to the planning area called the Point Reyes Peninsula/Olema Valley zone, which would replace the zones from the 1980 G.M.P. This 28,700-acre zone would be managed to support the desired conditions for the planning area defined in chapter 1. N.P.S. would also apply a Historic Ranch Preservation subzone that would be managed for the adaptive reuse of historic ranch complexes in the planning area."

AGAIN:  The 45 day for the public to state your choice as to the future of the Drakes Beach Tule Elk ends on MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2019 at 11:59 PM MOUNTAIN DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME. 10:59 Pacific D.S.T., 9:59 P.M. Alaska Daylight Time, 7:59 P.M. Hawaii-Aleutian Standard Time, with Tuesday September 23rd:  12:59 A.M. Central D.S.T. and 1:59 A.M. Eastern D.S.T.]

The National Park Service will not allow "Bulk" comments and Non-substantive comments include those that:

"The Park Service’s proposed alternative for an amendment to the park’s General Management Plan would enshrine cattle grazing as the primary use of a huge swath of the National Seashore, at the expense of native wildlife and natural habitats.

'This is a shockingly anti-wildlife plan, and killing these elk will do nothing to fix or reduce the environmental damage caused by cattle ranching,' said Jeff Miller, senior conservation advocate at the Center for Biological Diversity.  'What is the Park Service thinking? Allowing expansion of commercial agricultural activities would inevitably lead to further conflicts with other native wildlife. After the elk shooting starts, get ready for ranchers to call for the slaughter of the park’s bobcats, foxes and birds.'"