Point Reyes, National Park Service and cattle ranches

In historic deal, Point Reyes ranchers, National Park Service and environmentalists reach agreement on disputed land
Point Reyes ranchers will soon surrender their leases to settle a contentious land-use dispute, ending an agricultural era.
Deal to end ranching in Point Reyes National Seashore expected to be unveiled this week
The settlement in a three-year-old lawsuit is said to involve a roughly $30 million buyout of leases for the seashore’s remaining dairies and cattle ranches, ending an era of private farming within the park that stretches back to its formation in 1962.
Settlement to end most ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore
Most cattle ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore will soon come to end under an agreement announced Wednesday by the National Park Service. Under the deal, 12 of 14 ranches in Point Reyes will cease operations and end their leases within 15 months in exchange for compensation,
National Park Service, environmental groups reach deal to end most ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore
Of the 14 ranches at Point Reyes, 12 will surrender their leases in the next 15 months. Two beef ranches will remain in operation.
Deal announced to end most ranching in Point Reyes National Seashore, manage park’s free-roaming elk herd
The announcement did not include details of the voluntary buyouts brokered by The Nature Conservancy and said to total about $30 million. At least two ranches are seeking to continue under 20-year lease extensions.
NPS announces deal to close ranches on Point Reyes
The agreement between environmentalists and ranchers resolves decades of conflict over land use at the California national seashore.
Historic Agreement on Cattle Ranching, Wildlife Management at Point Reyes National Seashore Ends Decades of Conflict
Today the National Park Service, Resource Renewal Institute, Center for Biological Diversity, Western Watersheds Project, Point Reyes Seashore Ranching Association, and other Point Reyes National Seashore ranchers reached a landmark agreement to settle a decades-long land-use conflict over the future of dairying,
Annual Fungus Fair Returns To Point Reyes National Seashore
On Saturday, January 12, 2024, the 18th Annual Bay Area Mycological Society/Point Reyes National Seashore Fungus Fair returns to a wet, wintry Point Reyes National Seashore. It's a multi-day event.
Point Reyes ranchers, National Park Service, environmentalists reach agreement on disputed land
Nearly all the ranches will give up their leases in exchange for money, ending an agricultural era that began long before the creation of the park.
Historic change coming to Point Reyes as environmentalists buy out ranchers
In a historic deal announced Wednesday, Point Reyes National Seashore will largely do away with ranching at the park, a ...
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Point Reyes' first elephant seal birth of the season celebrated, amid beach closures
Welcome to the world little one!" The Point Reyes National Seashore celebrated its first elephant seal birth of the season.
Sick seabird with oiled feathers found on California beach — then rescuers stepped in
A sick seabird with what appeared to be oiled feathers was rescued in Northern California, officials said. The common murre ...