San Francisco Bay’s Point Buckler Island sold at auction for $3.8M to John Muir Land Trust

A long-running legal dispute over the fate of a small island in San Francisco Bay came to an end last week when Point Buckler Island was sold at auction to the John Muir Land Trust, a nonprofit conservation organization.

The land trust used a court-awarded credit worth about $3.8 million to purchase the 29-acre private island on a 50-acre parcel that is part of Solano County and is situated in a tidal marsh separating Suisun Bay and Grizzly Bay. It’s a critical habitat and corridor for delta smelt, Chinook salmon and other species.