An ecosystem in recovery at the Bear Valley Trail
05/12/2021
A hike along the Point Reyes National Seashore’s newly reopened Bear Valley Trail, closed for nine months after last summer’s Woodward Fire, offers abundant signs of nature’s healing: A woodpecker drumming on a blackened tree, wildflowers basking in pockets of sunlight and a lingering scent of charcoal in the air... Supes looking at clubhouse for fire headquarters
05/12/2021
Marin County is exploring the purchase of the former San Geronimo Golf Course clubhouse to use as a headquarters for its fire department. The Board of Supervisors discussed acquiring the 22-acre parcel in a closed-session meeting last week. Jason Weber, the Marin County Fire chief, said his department outgrew the... Marin vaccinating youths
05/12/2021
Marin is aiming to be one of the only communities in the United States to reach herd immunity after the Pfizer vaccine passed regulatory approval for youth ages 12 to 15 this week. The county aims to give half of the roughly 4,000 adolescents in this group their first dose... McClure dairy shuts down
05/12/2021
Bob McClure is closing his dairy operation in the Point Reyes National Seashore, putting an end to the largest and oldest dairy in the park and leaving the eight families who live on the land without housing or work. The McClures have lived on the peninsula for four generations, longer... Drakes Bay increasingly attractive to elephant seals
05/12/2021
The number of breeding elephant seals that find refuge on the shores of Point Reyes exploded this year, with numbers climbing from 1,844 in 2017 to 2,524. Despite the effort by park service employees to reduce breeding activity on the most public part of Drakes Beach, the site only rose... Combatting hate speech
05/12/2021
Each year, eighth-grade social studies students at Lagunitas Middle School participate in something called a Change Project. It’s a chance for us to identify and address a problem in our community. Due to what we see and hear at a national and local level, we’ve decided on a Change Project... 
