The Board of Supervisors has declined to intervene in a lawsuit against the National Park Service brought by three environmental groups that seek to end ranching and dairying in the Point Reyes National Seashore. Meanwhile, a progress report on efforts to settle the case out of court have been postponed until March 15. Last month, a group of agricultural producers and their supporters called on the supervisors to intervene in the case, as the county had done in a previous lawsuit brought by the same plaintiffs—the Resource Renewal Institute, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Western Watersheds Project. The group maintained that the county should have a seat at the table along with the plaintiffs, park officials and ranchers who have been trying to settle the suit out of court. But on Friday, county counsel Brian Washington informed them the county would not join the mediation talks. “The ranching interests in the litigation have not asked for—or expressed interest in—county participation in the litigation/settlement talks, so we will not be seeking to involve ourselves at this time,” he wrote in an email to Judy Teichman, who helped draft the request to the supervisors. The environmental groups filed suit after park officials announced an update to their management plan that would have granted 20-year leases to the ranches and dairies.