Saving Point Reyes: How an Epic Conservation Victory Became a Tipping Point for Environmental Policy Action

The Point Reyes National Seashore (PRNS) is not only a stunning piece of land—the first large national park created from all private lands and the first large park adjacent a large metropolitan center—but the fight to save this fragile ecosystem in the 1960s was a key turning point in the environmental movement and helped transform the political landscape of California and the nation.

Saving Point Reyes is an environmental policy history that draws on archival materials, oral histories, and ...