Tribal group urges Haaland to nix Point Reyes NS management plan

Coast Miwok descendants in Marin County are urging U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the nation’s first Native American cabinet secretary, to reject a controversial plan at Point Reyes National Seashore that it says prioritizes commercial cattle ranching over protecting archaeological sites and the environment.

The Coast Miwok Tribal Council of Marin County, a non-federally recognized organization of Coast Miwok descendants formed in early 2020, wrote in a letter to Haaland this month opposing the park’s plans to extend terms of commercial ranches that lease about a quarter of the land at the 71,000-acre national seashore. Doing so, the council said, would be “permitting continued desecration of native sites by 5,500 cows and farming equipment.”

https://www.marinij.com/2021/06/28/desecration-marin-tribal-descendants-oppose-point-reyes-plan/