Note: A correction to this op-ed is posted below.
The Point Reyes National Seashore is a superb natural area, about 71,000 acres in size, and is in many respects without parallel in the national park system. Its south-most corner is less than 30 miles from the teeming metropolitan areas surrounding San Francisco Bay, and its 30-mile length separates the rich marine sanctuaries of the Golden Gate Biosphere Reserve from the rural interior of Marin County.…