Bitterness remains acute in western Marin following a confidential deal to close a dozen ranches or dairies in the Point ...

Environmentalists scored a major victory Wednesday when the National Park Service agreed to revise its land management plan at Point Reyes National Seashore to ... ranching at the pristine coastal ...

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

Over the next 15 months, six dairies and six cattle ranches will cease operations and surrender their leases in what is now ...

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

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

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

The settlement, however, will add stress to Marin County’s agricultural community ... on slopes overlooking Drakes Estero in Point Reyes National Seashore on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023.

Editor’s note: The author of this report lived on Home Ranch in Point Reyes National Seashore between 2016 ... born in Bakersfield and raised in Marin County. Outside of reading, writing ...