Most cattle ranching at Point Reyes National Seashore will soon come to end under an agreement announced Wednesday by the ...

Here’s what you need to know about the landmark deal unveiled this week to phase out most private ranching in the 71,000-acre Point Reyes National Seashore, including what key players are saying about ...

Nearly all the ranches will give up their leases in exchange for money, ending an agricultural era that began long before the ...

Point Reyes is often at a bitter divide between environmentalism and human heritage. Now, in 2026, nearly all the ranches on ...

Environmentalists scored a major victory Wednesday when the National Park Service agreed to revise its land management plan at Point Reyes National Seashore to better serve the area's native tule elk ...

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Congress has never made dairies or ranching a purpose of the national seashore, nor has it ever suggested their occupation ...

This settlement was formed behind closed doors with little public input beyond the few parties involved in the legal ...

Of the 14 ranches at Point Reyes, 12 will surrender their leases in the next 15 months. Two beef ranches will remain in operation.

The BriefIt's birthing and mating season for elephant seals at Point Reyes.Beach closures are in effect to help protect nursing pups.Point Reyes officials recently celebrated the area's first pup ...

Most cattle will leave, and an ambitious plan aims to restore coastal scrub, grasslands, and chaparral. But the agreement ...

The agreement between environmentalists and ranchers resolves decades of conflict over land use at the California national seashore.