Eviction deadline looms for last farmworker families in Point Reyes

A thunderstorm rumbles over McClure Ranch at Point Reyes National Seashore. Save for just a few farmworkers still to placed in housing, the ranch is non operational, Wednesday, Feb. 18, 2026. (Kent Porter / The Press Democrat)

By John Beck. Please read the full article from the Press Democrat.

After scrambling for months to find a new home before a Saturday eviction deadline, one last farmworker family in Point Reyes National Seashore is running out of time and may have to move into a hotel or short-term vacation rental as a last-ditch option.

“I’m honestly scared,” said Margarito Loza.

He and his wife, Chabela, have lived at Spaletta Dairy for 35 years. Their 17-year-old son, Tony, is midway through his senior year at Tomales High School and is deeply concerned about where he will live next week and the toll the upheaval has taken on his family.

“I worry about my parents,” he said. “I really wanted to graduate from Tomales this year, but I know it’s really hard for them to make that happen.”

Last Thursday, several seashore families at the former McClure Dairy faced the same deadline, with nowhere to go, when they received a late-hour reprieve granting one-month extensions. Another family at the former McClelland Dairy is still awaiting a response to its extension request.

For the Lozas, however, an extension was never an option. Margarito said the ranch owners made it clear he must move out by midnight Saturday, Feb. 28.