It was a small blip in the blizzard of recent news about the future of Point Reyes National Seashore.

A California agency that finances habitat improvement projects approved $10 million in late August for restoration of land that’s set to be vacated by seashore ranchers under a historic settlement announced this year in the final days of the Biden administration.

The grant is going to The Nature Conservancy, the same group that brokered the closed-door talks with ranchers and spearheaded a reported $30-million-plus package accepted by a dozen of those families to exit the seashore – and end years of litigation by environmental groups critical of the ecological impact of private farming in the public park.

The first $2.7 million from the Wildlife Conservation Board is set to be used by T

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