The Point Reyes National Seashore is at the center of another bitter legal battle.

Two years ago the fight was over an oyster farm.

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Now it’s over cattle, and the future of the cattle-ranching families who call Point Reyes home.

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Michael Wara, an associate professor at Stanford Law School, says a U.S District Court judge in San Francisco will likely take into account the location of Point Reyes, which is unusual among the national parks.

“The Point Reyes National Seashore is kind of an odd duck in the national parks system,” he says. “It’s really close to a major urban center, so the visitation patterns are probably very different than they would be for Yosemite, or Yellowstone or the Grand Canyon.”

In addition, Wara says the seashore’s unique history will also be important in this case.

“The usage, the fact that there is this historic usage is really different,” he says.