Bill Niman has lived through a lot of changes since he first started ranching in Point Reyes in 1969. And what especially irks him is seeing areas that were once grassland dotted with cattle now choked with coyote brush.
“That’s how quickly the land can go back,” said Niman, co-founder of the sustainable meat company Niman Ranch, as he drove past acres of brush that he said hadn’t been grazed since the National Park Service took it out of agricultural use in the late 1980s.
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