Point Reyes, national park service and cattle ranches

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,
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,
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.
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.
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 ...
Sick, oiled seabird recovering after North Bay beach rescue
A sick seabird with apparent oiled feathers was found on a beach at Point Reyes National Seashore, park officials said over ...
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Marin beach closed for elephant seal breeding season
With Drakes Beach becoming a popular breeding ground, parks officials have enacted seasonal closures, which this season began ...
Beach hazards statement predicted to expire at 9 p.m., says the NWS
The statement was for Coastal North Bay Including Point Reyes National Seashore, San Francisco Peninsula Coast, Northern ...