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Park Academy provides professional career preparation for park interns, professional development opportunities for park staff, and personal enrichment for volunteers by providing ongoing learning opportunities. Conservancy members are also invited and encouraged to register for classes of interest.

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Classes are scheduled all year round and cover a wide range of topics, covering everything from natural resource topics to computer skills. Here are some of the class offerings:

Plant Nutrition
May 23, 2013
1-4 pm
Location: Marin Headlands
Come learn the basics of plant nutritional needs from Betty Young (Director of Park Nurseries) and Henry Wallace (Farm Supervisor, College of Marin).

Climate Change in the Golden Gate National Parks
June 4, 2013
1-3 pm
Location: Presidio of San Francisco
The National Park Service interpretive team of Will Elder and Roxi Farwell as well as Andrew Leider from the Institute at the Golden Gate will lead this discussion on educating and communicating about climate change in the parks.

Controlling Invasive Plants in the GGNRA

How and Why We Control Invasives in the Park
June 7, 2013
9:30 am-12:30 pm
Location: Tennessee Valley
Join Liz Ponzini (Manager, Tennessee Valley Nursery), for this informative and interesting class on something we should all be aware of: the threats posed to the parks by invasive plants.

Vegetative Plant Propagation
June 13, 2013
9 am-Noon
Location: Muir Woods National Monument
Chelsea Dicksion (Conservancy, Redwood Creek Nursery Manager) will lead this class in the art of rooting plants from cuttings.

The Anza Trail and the Founding of the Presidio.

Anza Trail History Talk & Walk
June 18, 2013
1-3 pm
Location: Presidio of San Francisco
Join Hale Sargent (NPS, Interpretive Specialist for the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail), to learn how this multi-ethnic group of adventurers laid the foundation of modern California.