News broke this month that the Nature Conservancy has been invited into the negotiations over ranching in the Point Reyes National Seashore, and that the nonprofit may even supply buy-out money to help get things settled.
Local news reports did not reveal who had violated the confidentiality of the ongoing settlement talks between the National Park Service, ranchers and environmental groups by divulging the Nature Conservancy’s involvement, but the mediator leading the talks confirmed…