Marin Independent Journal
April 16, 2016
Marin County officials are rallying to support ranchers in the fight against a lawsuit they think would end cattle and dairy operations in the Point Reyes National Seashore.
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Marin Independent Journal
February 21, 2016
A new Greenbelt Alliance report highlighting the issues agriculture faces in the urbanized Bay Area urges Marin to do more to protect local ranches and farms.
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Marin Independent Journal
September 27, 2015
The Marin Agricultural Land Trust has bought the development rights to the Fallon Ranch near Tomales, placing 186 acres of coastal pasture and cropland under permanent protection from housing.
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Bay Nature Magazine
July 10, 2015
The 25 people standing on the rocky hillside of Millerton Creek Ranch have arguably some of the best views in Marin County. It’s 9:30 a.m. and the low-hanging fog has just lifted, uncovering a dramatic vista of rolling yellow hills dusted with wildflowers.
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Marin Independent Journal
June 23, 2015
This will be the last summer that three large Marin farms will pump water out of Pine Gulch Creek to irrigate their crops, ensuring that there will be extra water available to support endangered coho salmon and steelhead trout.
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KPIX - CBS
June 12, 2015
Kitty Dolcini grew up playing in the barns on her family’s Red Hill Ranch in Hicks Valley, northwest of Novato. But her generation — the fifth in her family to farm in Marin — almost lost it all.
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The Capital Press
February 7, 2015
Organic grower Peter Martinelli admits it took him about 10 years to discover his love of the land was a career.
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Marin Independent Journal
November 27, 2014
One of California’s oldest certified organic farms will remain free from development in perpetuity after the Marin Agricultural Land Trust completed a deal for development rights.
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Marin Independent Journal
September 27, 2014
In what is a first for the Marin Agricultural Land Trust, the land conservation agency has accepted a bequest of a large swath of agricultural land.
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Point Reyes Light
September 25, 2014
The 623-acre Thacher Ranch, a parcel near Marin’s border with Sonoma known to many as Rocky Canyon Ranch, is the latest ranch to be safe-guarded from the pressures of estate development after the Marin Agricultural Land Trust closed on a $1.8 million agricultural conservation easement, the nonprofit’s 73rd easement in its over 30-decade history.
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