U.S. Representative Jared Huffman has secured a $1 million appropriation for “transition assistance” to dairies in West Marin, while a leading land conservation organization has joined settlement talks that will determine the future of agriculture in the Point Reyes National Seashore. 

Parties to the confidential mediation between ranchers, the park service and the environmental groups that sued the park declined to discuss either development, and Rep. Huffman’s office did not respond to requests for…