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 ...

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

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

elk and cow to peacefully coexist at Point Reyes, such as granting 20-year agricultural lease permits to 24 beef and dairy ranches, reducing ranching, and/or prohibiting dairy ranching. The park ...

Located on the Point Reyes Peninsula, 40 miles northwest of San Francisco ... and the only marine wilderness (Drakes Estero) on the West Coast south of Alaska. The park harbors an astonishingly rich ...

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

A Pulitzer Prize-winning weekly covering West Marin, including the towns of Point Reyes Station, Inverness, Bolinas, Stinson ...

Elephant seals have returned to Drakes Beach at Point Reyes, where viewing areas are open from 10 AM to 4 PM for safe wildlife observation.

POINT REYES, Calif. (KGO) -- In the North Bay, a major migration is happening in Marin County. Elephant seals are returning to Drake's Beach at the Point Reyes National Seashore for breeding ...

In 1998 the Park Service moved elk to the Limantour wilderness area of Point Reyes to establish a free-roaming herd. The Limantour herd has now grown to 120 elk, and a herd of 92 elk has established ...

The sound of mighty elephant seals re-staking their claim to Drake's Beach echoing in Point Reyes for winter breeding season, and you really have to see these creatures to believe them. Critically ...