Point Reyes ranchers will soon surrender their leases to settle a contentious land-use dispute, ending an agricultural era.
Cattle graze on slopes overlooking Drakes Estero in Point Reyes National Seashore near Inverness, Calif. on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023.
An inventory of the landscape is planned, then a management strategy will be drafted. Tools include “targeted grazing” by cattle, as well as mowing and perhaps prescribed fire, to reduce fire risk, deter weed growth and provide habitat for grassland species like Western meadowlarks. Eleven ranches in the seashore – including three multi-generational dairies of the Nunes, Mendoza and Spaletta families near the famed Lighthouse and Chimney Rock peninsula — must shut down within 15 months.reported that ranchers will receive a share of an estimated $40-million settlement fund. An estimated $2 million has been set aside for relocation of farmworkers.
The three scattered herds of tule elk will be free to multiply and stray beyond their historic bounds.
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