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Early dawn on Point Reyes\u00a0brings another sunrise without a sun, the May fog shrouding this Saturday as winds whip up like they often do out on the peninsula.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all I\u2019ve ever known,\u201d says rancher Kevin Lunny. He\u2019s talking about the wind, the light, the smell of cows, the scent of salted air off the sea \u2014 almost every detail in his life \u2014 as he drives a 4×4 into the pasture where his grandfather first set foot in 1946.<\/p>\n

An executive at Pope and Talbot in San Francisco, Joe Lunny Sr. was a steamship man, not a farmer. But after buying a run-down dairy on the Historic G Ranch, he learned, often the hard way, from old family ranchers nearby, like the Kehoes and the Mendozas, who had worked the land long before he arrived. His son, Joe Lunny Jr., who was 17 at the time \u2014 he\u2019s now 94 \u2014 remembers, \u201cI came out here as greenhorn as you can be.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"With
With daughter Ginny Cummings, Joe Lunny waves to family as they arrive for the family\u2019s last cattle roundup, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over these past few weeks, everything Kevin Lunny does, whether closing a pasture gate or fixing a fence wire or taking an evening walk down to Abbotts Lagoon with his wife Nancy \u2014 he keeps asking himself, will this be the last time?<\/p>\n

Today, at least, one thing appears sure: This is the final cattle roundup at Lunny Ranch. The last time he\u2019ll ever bring cows into corrals and separate them. He\u2019s known this day might arrive sooner than later, for years now.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut it\u2019s still hard,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

More than a decade ago, when he lost a long-shot bid to renew the federal lease inside Point Reyes National Seashore for his Drakes Bay Oyster Company<\/a>, he had a premonition this day might come. After the seashore was created in 1962, with provisions for pastoral and wilderness lands, the longtime ranching families were reluctant to sell their land to the federal government, even with agreements to lease the land back.<\/p>\n

\"Kevin
Kevin Lunny\u2019s pants bear the brunt of ranch work at Point Reyes National Seashore, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the decades, those agreements came increasingly under fire from environmental groups who want more of the park turned over to wilderness and wildlife. After years of lawsuits and mediation between ranchers, environmental groups, and the National Park Service, which owns the land, the park is effectively shutting down the farm Lunny grew up on, one of a dozen set to close by next year under a voluntary buyout brokered by The Nature Conservancy.<\/p>\n

Lunny, a frontman in many of the biggest fights over the seashore in the past decade, doesn\u2019t want to argue over the details anymore. He held out as long as he could. Finally, his father came to him and said, \u201cI think we have to come to a yes. I don\u2019t want to see it kill you.\u201d<\/p>\n

In January, he was the last of 12 ranchers to sign the settlement<\/a>, which includes a reported $30-million payout to the ranchers who agreed to leave the land forever by next spring.<\/p>\n

Now, Lunny looks out on\u00a0the pasture where his grandkids, other family, and old friends make wide sweeps on dirt bikes, horseback, and 4x4s, leading the cattle toward the corrals.<\/p>\n

\"Bob
Bob Lunny, son of Kevin Lunny at Point Reyes National Seashore, drinks coffee prior to his participation at the last roundup on the Lunny Ranch, Saturday, May 17, 2025. Bob made the trip from his home in Memphis for the gathering. (Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"roundup
Callie, 11, and her mom Kristen Cummings move cattle in to a pen during a last roundup of cattle on the Lunny Ranch at Point Reyes National Seashore, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve never had this many people to gather cows in our life,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s really kind of everybody in the family coming together. It\u2019s very emotional for everybody. It shows you how this place has been meaningful for generations.\u201d<\/p>\n

His daughter Brigid Mata, who has worked the farm since she was a child, says she originally thought maybe the last roundup should just be small and super-intimate. \u201cBut my dad said, you know, everyone has memories here. Everyone wants to be a part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

On this final roundup, there are 90 mother cows, 30 bred heifers, 85 calves \u2014 many that will relocate to a pasture in southern Oregon for now. And 55 2-year-olds going to slaughter.<\/p>\n

\"Lunny
Cattle are pushed through a gate for a pregnancy check and electronic tag, Saturday, May 17, 2025, during a last roundup of cattle on the Lunny Ranch at Point Reyes National Seashore. (Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Joe
Joe Lunny and daughter Pamela Lunny react as Joe hangs on to his hat during a windy last roundup of cattle, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Over the next few hours, friends and family from as far and wide as Tennessee, Washington and all over California, will lend a hand helping sort cattle while a vet does pregnancy checks on mother cows. Mata will attach new ear tags on the cows going to Oregon, and Nancy Lunny will log every detail from the vet checks in her notebook. Eventually, empty boxes of doughnuts make way for an open-pit barbecue firing up. It feels like a family reunion, with all the hugs and back-slapping and kids running around.<\/p>\n

\u201cOn the outside we might be laughing and smiling and carrying on, but on the inside, everyone is sad,\u201d says Kevin Lunny.<\/p>\n

His father, Joe Lunny Jr., is taking it the hardest. He\u2019s watching from afar, on the patio of the main house. As people park and walk up the driveway, they stop to pay their respects as if giving their condolences at a funeral. Joe leads them through a room with walls filled with family photos and deer mounts. Nearby, framed on the wall, an old Press Democrat story headline reads, \u201cRanching in Paradise.\u201d<\/p>\n

Over the years, it became anything but that.<\/p>\n

\"Family
Family photos at the Lunny Ranch, Saturday, May 17, 2025, at Point Reyes National Seashore. (Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Lunny
Family and friends of the Lunny family have their portrait made during a last roundup of cattle, Saturday, May 17, 2025. (Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI thought I would die here one day,\u201d says Joe Lunny Jr., choking back tears as he reaches out to the land with one arm.<\/p>\n

Will he ever return to visit?<\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would I?\u201d he says.<\/p>\n

By this time, in the thick of summer,\u00a0Kevin and Nancy Lunny plan to be settled down in their new home on 10 acres near Auburn. His father will split time with them and his sisters, who live in Penngrove and McCloud near Mt. Shasta.<\/p>\n

On the farm outside Auburn, there\u2019s a pond stocked with bass and bluegill that his grandkids love to fish. Kevin Lunny thought he would have a hard time adjusting to such a quiet place, without the constant sound of the ocean and harsh winds he grew up with in Point Reyes. But a creek running through the property \u201cthat babbles year-round\u201d has filled any void. He also kept a few cows, because he says it would be hard to live without them, and he has a barn.<\/p>\n

\"Lunny
Kevin Lunny runs to secure a gate during the last roundup of his family\u2019s cattle, Saturday, May 17, 2025, at Point Ryes National Seashore. (Kent Porter \/ The Press Democrat)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Lunny has promised to stay involved in the ongoing battle over ranching in the park and help other ranchers in need. Lately, there have been rumblings that bureaucrats in Washington might reverse the deal that ended ranching in the park. If that happened, would he be interested in coming back to Point Reyes?<\/p>\n

\u201cIn a heartbeat,\u201d he says. \u201cWe\u2019d do it in a second.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he already spent the money.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe signed a contract,\u201d he says. \u201cWe committed never to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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