Point Reyes, National Park Service and cattle ranches

At a glance: What’s in the historic settlement to buy out ranches in Point Reyes National Seashore?
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 it and how it could shape the prized park’s future.
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 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.
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,
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 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.
Historic change coming to Point Reyes as environmentalists buy out ranchers
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