Creating an Indigenous future for Felix Cove

The Alliance for Felix Cove releases its Vision Plan for Indigenous renewal of Point Reyes National Seashore

This year the National Park Service took a significant step forward by essentially ending commercial ranching in Point Reyes National Seashore. In partnership with The Nature Conservancy, NPS was awarded $2.7 million in state funding to begin restoring the Park’s ecosystem, enabling plants and animals to return to healthy lands and waters. 

In imaging the future of Point Reyes, this is a moment of extraordinary opportunity. But to truly care for these lands, as our friends at Audubon Canyon Ranch have said, “it is going to take a community.”  True healing of these lands requires the participation of the diverse communities of Coast Miwok, Támal-ko, Pomo, California Indian, San Francisco Bay Area Indian peoples and Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria, who hold ties to these ancestral lands, along with naturalists, environmental advocates, local residents, and the National Park Service. Current conversations around the Park’s future have yet to invite community perspectives, including Indigenous ecological scientists and traditional ecological knowledge holders based on what we find in media reports.

This absence of Indigenous voices calls us to share our vision plan for Felix Cove as presented to NPS in 2023. While this plan represents our imagining from two years ago, it is grounded in community participation. Today we continue to work toward the creation of an Indigenous community vision that brings back the beauty and abundance nurtured by the ancestors.

You can be a part of our work to create an Indigenous future for Felix Cove!

Click below to explore our Vision Plan - and to sign up to join our efforts to return Indigenous voices to our public lands!